In the mid 1930’s a lady of strong will and great zest for life lived on a dairy farm on Upper Duck Creek, Old Bonalbo. Aileen Haggarty was the mother of three children and dedicated wife of a local dairy farmer. Their lives were hard and their days long, but for Aileen their was one great joy that put some excitement into her life. Speed.

The old T model Ford was a well-known site around the district, there were others but Aileen’s was always going flat-out. Aileen believed that their was only three ways that a car could go. Stop, reverse, and forward as fast as the car could go.

Men often joked that they would get off the road if they saw her coming, Aileen would drive down the middle of the road and pity help anybody who got in her way.

Aileen’s adventurous spirit was never topped until one day in a back street of near-by Bonalbo Mrs. Haggarty was booked for speeding, in a horse and sulky.

The dashing Mrs. Haggarty passed her adventurous spirit on to her grand children, one grandson is a dashing Squadron Leader in the RAAF, and one of her grand daughters is an outgoing young woman who served her country on active duty as an Air force Officer in East Timor