The traveller
Spike’s parents, Leo and Florence Milligan, moved
to Australia in 1951 and retired to Woy Woy, a little town
on the central coast of New South Wales, about 50 kilometres
north of Sydney.
Woy Woy become the central stage for much of Spike’s
work as an author, a conservationist and as a man fleeing
from the demands of his life in London...
In April 1958, Spike, his first wife June, and their three
children (Laura, Sean and Sile) visited Leo and Florence
in Woy Woy. While there, Spike made an Australian version
of Idiot Weekly for the ABC, or Australian Broadcasting
Commission (now Corporation). Critics were bewildered by
it but, nevertheless, a second series was commissioned for
1959.
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Spike with his parents Leo (left)
and Flo
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