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RETURNING SOME-ONES HAT
A HAT STORY ( A true story )
Here’s one of the strangest stories about a hat that I have It concerns a tale from the second time I was in Sydney back in 1997.
One afternoon in Sydney both me and and my Girlfriend met a man on the the working pitch of Circular Quay where all the street performers were working that season, the time of the year was around about February it was prior to A.Js wedding.
A lot of performers were hanging around especially for this wedding and at this time both me and my girlfriend were hanging around with this guy from Canberra.
To this day I cannot remember what his name was but we did spend some time with this man and he loved the street performers, during this instance for some reason he offered to lend me his Austrailian hat and said to me that I could take it on my travels and then afterwards bring it back to him in Canberra, After the weeding we took off to New Zealand and after that part of the trip things went from bad to worse what with all the immigration problems in Wellington, some of you will remember this time if you were there.
The man, who’s name I cannot remember trusted me with this hat and he told me at the time that this was his grandfathers hat and it went went back a long way historically speaking. The day he gave me it to wear and borrow he wrote an address on the inside of it so I would not forget his name or his address.
The place called “The Palace" in Canberra I remember well but his name not! He explained to me that he was rigging up a spot for performance and this consisted of some old railway carriages set in a rectangular fashion in some open space?? Called the Palace?
He told me that every knew of this place? But I have never ever being able to trace it ( YET? )
Before going to NZ I was on Ajs stag night walking around in the pouring down rain in Sydney the hat got drenched and the felt tip pen name and address literally got washed away in it!
On arriving back in Aussie there was no way I could find this place remeber anything or the name of this man but it might have been Roland? as there was no trace of anything in the hatleft to read.
We left back for England and carried on touring the following season around Europe and when I arrived back in the UK, and went to my home town York, met up with my Ex wife Jayne who told me that she had had a visitor all the way from Aussie looking for his hat.
Apparently he'd flown all the way to York Uk looking for me! He was specifically there for the hatI was not there and there was no way of contacting me at all.
My wife lost his address it just disappeared, so did all possible contact with this man?
I still have the hat in my room here in Rotterdam and I really would like to find a way to get this obviously treasured possession back into the hands of the former and right-full owner!
It must be special to him and I feel really bad about the whole thing despite it not being entirely my fault!
If there is any-one out there that knows anything about Canberra and the where-abouts of the place called the Palace ( Apparently a very well known spot ) he said “ Every-one knew where it was? Then any information would be of great help! I know for a fact that if he were to get news about the hat he would be delighted and at least he would know that I did not deliberately intend to keep it or not return it to him.
Any information regarding the where-abouts of this place would be of great interest to me and I would love to make the story of the hat a happy one for him.
Every time I see this hat hanging in our house I think about how much this man and how would like it back? Frustrating really, really!
he was a nice guys an di still remeber him well.
Will the hat ever find the rightfull head I wonder?
Trevor Rooney
[ 10-20-2003: Message edited by: Dead Woods Music Agency ]</p>
Here’s one of the strangest stories about a hat that I have It concerns a tale from the second time I was in Sydney back in 1997.
One afternoon in Sydney both me and and my Girlfriend met a man on the the working pitch of Circular Quay where all the street performers were working that season, the time of the year was around about February it was prior to A.Js wedding.
A lot of performers were hanging around especially for this wedding and at this time both me and my girlfriend were hanging around with this guy from Canberra.
To this day I cannot remember what his name was but we did spend some time with this man and he loved the street performers, during this instance for some reason he offered to lend me his Austrailian hat and said to me that I could take it on my travels and then afterwards bring it back to him in Canberra, After the weeding we took off to New Zealand and after that part of the trip things went from bad to worse what with all the immigration problems in Wellington, some of you will remember this time if you were there.
The man, who’s name I cannot remember trusted me with this hat and he told me at the time that this was his grandfathers hat and it went went back a long way historically speaking. The day he gave me it to wear and borrow he wrote an address on the inside of it so I would not forget his name or his address.
The place called “The Palace" in Canberra I remember well but his name not! He explained to me that he was rigging up a spot for performance and this consisted of some old railway carriages set in a rectangular fashion in some open space?? Called the Palace?
He told me that every knew of this place? But I have never ever being able to trace it ( YET? )
Before going to NZ I was on Ajs stag night walking around in the pouring down rain in Sydney the hat got drenched and the felt tip pen name and address literally got washed away in it!
On arriving back in Aussie there was no way I could find this place remeber anything or the name of this man but it might have been Roland? as there was no trace of anything in the hatleft to read.
We left back for England and carried on touring the following season around Europe and when I arrived back in the UK, and went to my home town York, met up with my Ex wife Jayne who told me that she had had a visitor all the way from Aussie looking for his hat.
Apparently he'd flown all the way to York Uk looking for me! He was specifically there for the hatI was not there and there was no way of contacting me at all.
My wife lost his address it just disappeared, so did all possible contact with this man?
I still have the hat in my room here in Rotterdam and I really would like to find a way to get this obviously treasured possession back into the hands of the former and right-full owner!
It must be special to him and I feel really bad about the whole thing despite it not being entirely my fault!
If there is any-one out there that knows anything about Canberra and the where-abouts of the place called the Palace ( Apparently a very well known spot ) he said “ Every-one knew where it was? Then any information would be of great help! I know for a fact that if he were to get news about the hat he would be delighted and at least he would know that I did not deliberately intend to keep it or not return it to him.
Any information regarding the where-abouts of this place would be of great interest to me and I would love to make the story of the hat a happy one for him.
Every time I see this hat hanging in our house I think about how much this man and how would like it back? Frustrating really, really!
he was a nice guys an di still remeber him well.
Will the hat ever find the rightfull head I wonder?
Trevor Rooney
[ 10-20-2003: Message edited by: Dead Woods Music Agency ]</p>