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Hairdressing equipment brought from Germany by Brunhilde Srejic in 1949, and used first in the Cowra migrant camp. Moving to Orange Hilda set up an unofficial hairdressing business in the kitchen of her Bletchington Street home.
"It was all migrant women who came to me and they had no money, but they had all started gardens where they lived and they would pay me in cabbages, potatoes, onions and eggs. One Russian woman gave me her old sewing machine in return for two perms."
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Brunhilde Srejic working as a hairdresser in her Endsleigh Avenue home. The salon was established after Brunhilde obtained her Australian hairdresser's license and official registration. Here she built up a good clientele, with more Australians than migrants and all by word of mouth
Objects courtesy Brunhilde Srejic
