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Read more about the article Captain Robert Huddle’s logbook: the epilogue

Captain Robert Huddle’s logbook: the epilogue

This rather melancholy epilogue to the logbook of Captain Robert Huddle - excerpts of which I have transcribed in other posts - finds the old seaman washed ashore in England, "a chronic invalid" on "a petty pension". The volume ends with a pasted-in photo of his residence in London in the year 1901: 63 Ravendsale Road, Stamford Hill. I have looked on Google Earth, and the building looks almost the same today. Robert Huddle's home in London, 1901. As the beginning to the end of this narrative I have attempted to set out in the preparatory…

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Read more about the article King Coal’s loyal foot-soldiers on the job
Left to right: Joel Fitzgibbon, MP, ALP Federal Member for Hunter; Stephen Galilee, CEO, Minerals Council of NSW; Mark Latham MLC, NSW One Nation Party leader; John Barilaro, NSW National Party leader. Photo from Joel Fitzgibbon's Twitter account.

King Coal’s loyal foot-soldiers on the job

Opinion by Greg Ray The photo tells you much about the coal industry in NSW. A bunch of political bottom-feeders in uniform for the fading but still wealthy King Coal. You’ve got old mate Fitzy on the left, still in shock from nearly losing his seat at the most recent election. The nominally Labor Member for the federal seat of Hunter wants to blame everybody but himself, and perhaps figures if he cosies up to King Coal and gets himself on the op-ed writing roster for Mr Murdoch’s media stable he might be able to future-proof…

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Read more about the article A gallery of workplace photos: Part 2
Newcastle Post Office staff, 1949.

A gallery of workplace photos: Part 2

Group photos of employees in their workplaces aren't as common today as they once were. But I've gathered a selection from a variety of sources. Here is part 2 in the series. Newcastle Hospital staff, circa 1940s. Staff of P. Johnson and Co (later Stylemasters), makers of menswear, Darby Street Newcastle, circa 1930s. Krempins seed store, Hunter Street Newcastle, circa 1945. L to R: Edith Krempin, Laurel Blakemore, Biddy Hill, Nina Longworth, Norma Atkinson, Harry Krempin, Jack Krempin?, Roger Cecil (far right) Casben clothing company, Weston, circa 1957. Photo from Bernie Peel. Morison and Bearby engineering,…

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