Albert Moon attended the Royal Institute for the Blind in Maylands from 1937 when he was six until 1946.
He then went on to work in the Institute’s looming factory. Part of his wages went to the Institute, which also held street appeals to raise funds.
In 1958, he married Rose, a fellow vision-impaired worker. They had three children.
In 1993, Rose and Albert Moon represented Australia in basket-making at the Hong Kong Abilympics (the Abilities Olympics).
Albert Moon was a member of the Maylands Historical Society. As a vision-impaired person and a regular shopper on Eighth Avenue, he was concerned about the hazards portable signs on footpaths posed to vision-impaired persons.
The Maylands Historical Society wrote to the Mayor of Bayswater calling for either the removal or regulation of signs that shopkeepers placed on footpaths.
See our Albert Moon Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.
Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association acknowledges the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live, and learn. We acknowledge that we tell the stories of Noongar Country and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
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