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Eleven Glasgow girls took their last look at England when they sailed on the Orion for
Eleven Glasgow girls took their last look at England when they sailed on the Orion for Australia. They are members of staff of an electrical firm in Glasgow who have sent them out there to start a new life in the firms counterpart factory near Adelaide. Our Picture Shows: The girls sitting on the rail on the deck of the Orion before she sails from Tilbury 3rd June 1947.
UK emigrants were known as Ten Pound Poms a colloquial term used in Australia to describe UK subjects who migrated to Australia after the Second World War under an assisted passage scheme created by the Australian Government. The scheme attracted over one million British migrants between 1945 and 1972 and represented the last substantial scheme for preferential migration from the United Kingdom to Australia. watscan - - 29/01/2010
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