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Patricia Skehan is a founding executive member of Concord Heritage, now City of Canada Bay Heritage Society. Trish guest-speaks to Rotary, Probus, VIEW clubs; historical societies, etc., and lectures for U3A. She presented heritage talks on FM radio and has been published nationally. Trish conducts tours at Yaralla and Rivendell estates in Concord West. Since 1999, Trish has travelled across NSW to give over 1,000 heritage talks on 16 different subjects. She travelled to Britain in 2001 and 2005, researching at Cambridge on the Thomas Walker family's royal connections. In 2013, Ethel Turner's granddaughter asked Trish to transcribe letters from Jean Curlewis to her famous mother, written while a volunteer nursing aide during the 1919 Spanish Flu epidemic. Sourcing rare archives from RPAH, the Red Cross, Sydney University, Trove newspaper collections and museum sources, Trish found clues about Anzac secrets when given the seemingly unrelated diary of a young WW1 soldier. Trish was guest speaker at the Cenotaph in Sydney on Armistice Day 2020. Her talk on the impact of the Spanish flu epidemic was televised nationally. Born Armistice Day 1946, Trish is married to a retired Police Sergeant. They now live on the Central Coast.
