{"id":466,"date":"2010-06-03T17:53:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T07:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=466"},"modified":"2010-06-03T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T07:58:24","slug":"alison-gooch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/06\/03\/alison-gooch\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Gooch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here is a photograph from the archives. I took it in October 1999, before I owned a digital camera and when sometimes I took only one shot of each pavement embellishment I spotted. How I regret that!<\/p>\n

This solitary metal plaque is just a few centimetres long (compare its size with the blobs of chewing gum on the asphalt). It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the footpath outside a shop in King Street, Newtown, south of the railway station and opposite the high school<\/a>. At least it used to be there, but it disappeared when the pavement was upgraded some years ago. A number of people have mentioned it to me when they hear I take photos of pavement inscriptions and most know that it commemorated a girl (or woman) who was killed by a car that mounted the footpath.<\/p>\n

Recently I tried to find out a bit more of this story. In the Glebe and Inner City News<\/em> of 19 June and 26 June 1996 I read that Newtown woman Alison Gooch was killed when hit by a car as she walked along the footpath at about 3 am on Sunday 16 June. The car then hit a power pole before plunging through the front of the Direct Image store at 361 King Street. A 25-year-old Bondi man was subsequently charged with dangerous driving causing death and driving under the influence.<\/p>\n

In the register of funerals at St Stephens Church, Newtown, it is recorded that a service was held for Alison Joy Gooch of Station Street, Newtown, on 21 June 1996. Alison was 29 years old.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know who fixed the memorial plaque to the footpath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a photograph from the archives. I took it in October 1999, before I owned a digital camera and when sometimes I took only one shot of each pavement embellishment I spotted. How I regret that! This solitary metal plaque is just a few centimetres long (compare its size with the blobs of chewing <\/p>\n

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