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A view of the Hunter River, from the site of the former Murray Dwyer orphanage, circa 1930s.

Lost islands of the Hunter River

Kooragang Island is a name with little romance for most Hunter people. The name connotes a polluted wasteland permeated by the toxic legacy of generations of heavy industry. But it…

Wounded seaman being carried from the damaged freighter Allara in Newcastle, 1942

Wartime fears of a seaman’s daughter

Greg Ray
July 15, 2019
History / Militaria / Newcastle / vintage photographs
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FOR young Daphne Roper the most important thing about any ship entering Newcastle Harbour in the difficult years of World War II was its funnel. Daphne’s father Alexander McMorran was…

View across Cooks Hill, with the Sea Pit in the background, circa 1912.

Dog wallopers and woolly tigers on the streets of old Newcastle

DOG wallopers and woolly tigers were commonplace in Doug Bowman’s Newcastle. Doug was 95 when I interviewed him in 2013, and it took him a while to get warmed up.…