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Tales of My Forefathers

Building the Future

From Winchester to the Swan River Colony - an entrepreneur who kept spotting tomorrow before it arrived.

In 1898 Chas H. Carrick left Winchester for Western Australia. What followed was a civilian family story driven not by war, but by opportunity.

He arrived as the colony was being transformed by gold, railways, new ports, electric power and communications. Chas learned quickly, moved with the times and built a life around technologies that were only just beginning to reshape everyday Australia.

Motor cars took him to the goldfields. Wireless radio became his next business. Around him Perth was growing, Kalgoorlie was booming and a new Commonwealth was emerging.

Yet the story also reaches backwards: to a mysterious Carrick family plaque, a ruined Scottish castle and a family myth that refuses to die. Chas Carrick did not inherit the future. He built his place in it.

Tales of My Forefathers - Building the Future
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Chas H Carrick entrepreneur montage
The entrepreneur: Western Australia offered Chas a world in which transport, communications and business were changing almost by the year.
Chas Carrick in 1899
A young migrant in a new country: marriage, family and opportunity soon followed his arrival.
Chas Carrick radio business
Wireless: Chas moved from mechanics and motor cars into radio, short-wave equipment, valves, sales and service.
Kalgoorlie goldfields Western Australia
Kalgoorlie and the Goldfields: one of the great engines of Western Australia's late nineteenth-century transformation.
Carrick Castle Scotland
Carrick Castle: a family name, an old plaque and a mystery that later drew Lyn and Lesley to Scotland.
Carrick Castle bombardment
The castle's turbulent past became part of a family story in which documented history and inherited myth meet.

Video Backgrounder

A cleaned narrative backgrounder drawn from Lyn Vickery's Episode Four script, with production directions and promotional material removed so only the story remains.

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TALES OF MY FOREFATHERS · BUILDING THE FUTURE · CHAS H CARRICK · CHARLES CARRICK · WESTERN AUSTRALIA · SWAN RIVER COLONY · FREMANTLE · PERTH · SUBIACO · KALGOORLIE · GOLDFIELDS · GOLD RUSH · JOHN FORREST · C Y O'CONNOR · GOLDFIELDS WATER PIPELINE · MOTOR CARS · SWIFT MOTOR COMPANY · WIRELESS RADIO · SHORT WAVE RADIO · RADIO ENGINEER · WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA · WEST PERTH FOOTBALL CLUB · CARRICK CASTLE · SCOTLAND · ENTREPRENEUR · FAMILY HISTORY · GENEALOGY · TEACHER · STUDENT · VICARII PRODUCTIONS · BUILDING TOMORROW