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Alexander Galloway, Hunter photographer and composer

The entrepreneurial Alexander Galloway was a prolific photographer and amateur musician who composed some popular pieces of music in the early years of last century. He left an impressive legacy of photographic images of the Hunter Region's Coalfields district, a large number of which were recovered in 2010, in the form of hundreds of glass plate negatives, from beneath a house in Weston. Rescued by the diligent volunteers at the Edgeworth David Museum, these plates have been scanned and are now available through the University of Newcastle's online database. Alexander, Amy and William Galloway. Born on…

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Accidents, prangs and crashes, Part 4

Our Ken Magor collection of negatives contains many press photos, a large proportion of which were never used in the newspaper. In the cases where they have been filed in labelled envelopes, it is possible to link them with the events they illustrate by searching the marvellous Trove website. This sample shows some accidents involving trams on the streets of Newcastle. Henry Russell, 61, of Brunker Road, Adamstown, got a nasty shock on the morning of Friday, August 10, 1935. He was driving his horse-drawn cordial delivery cart in Hunter Street, Newcastle, near Wheeler Place, when…

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You are being robbed and you should be angry

October 31, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray Pork-barrelling is theft, plain and simple. Every time politicians redirect money from programs meant to benefit people and communities that need it, pushing it instead into projects that benefit their electoral prospects, it is theft. We are used to calling it "pork-barrelling", which makes it sound harmlesss. But it's anything but harmless. It's corrosive, wasteful, dishonest, and unethical and it my opinion it ought to be a criminal offence. They say the term "pork barrelling" originated back in the 1700s when barrels of salted pork were allegedly provided as…

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