Fridays Luck - Mervyn Englert

Approx 1948 filmed at Tascott NSW by Mervyn Englert. Features my father Brian Englert and my Grandfather Carl Englert and my Grandmother Daisy Blanche Englert

[@brittenmusic6923]

Excellent....loved the ending. 😂

[@WharfSomewhere]

that was awesome thankyou. wonderful to see Tascot wharf and mudflats c1949

[@gemstudiosaustralia887]

Thanks! PS I have lived on the Coast for about 5 years now and every time I drive past Waterview Cres I have a look and I have never seen mud flats? Any idea why? Some of the wharves in the film are still there and a few years ago I got dad to stand with them in the background and took pics. Nothing had changed in all those years. Extra info for you. My Grandfather (the fisherman) worked as a guard on the railway at Hornsby and the family would stay at the Tascott house which was owned by his brother Jack (Jack Englert - "Englert's at Ryde" Ford dealers). Granddad would get the trains to throw a sack of coal from the train at Tascott as they went past (tooting the horn to let them know) and dad would take a wheel barrow across to the station and collect the sack. When filming dad walking on the flats dad cut his foot on a bit of glass!

[@WharfSomewhere]

@@gemstudiosaustralia887 wow thats an awesome story thankyou! Yeah I research and hunt all along Tascott, Point Clare and Koolewong for many years in the mud for old bottles. Defintely lot of broken bottles there and I always wear thick shoes and 3 pairts of socks. Im not convinced that is Victory Parade or Waterview Crescent in the video-but it could well be. The waterline hosues opposite definitely look familiar like Koolewong. However In re watching it I think it is Tascott mud flats must have been a very low tide. Usually not that exposed

[@gemstudiosaustralia887]

Def number 2 Waterview. Took a photo recently and superimposed it on the film. Dad confirmed it during the visit to the area@@WharfSomewhere

[@gemstudiosaustralia887]

Uncle Jack's boatshed is still there as well