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Ten pound Pom 100 years and counting

Sixty-six years ago, Benny Kierns, his wife Sheila, and their two young children boarded a ship and left Scotland for Australia. The trip on The Strathmore took about four weeks and they landed in Adelaide where they had friends.

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