A 100-year-old remembers Maitland
There was an old Chinese man the locals called "No Chin". He had exposed dentures and he slept on cornbags in a shed in Elgin Street, behind the iceworks. There…
Ray Standen’s Newcastle earthquake video
Back around Christmas 1989, Islington man Ray Standen, 64, was making a video in Hamilton. It was a jolly yuletide film about the suburb - and particularly the shopping strip…
A tiny photo album, with even tinier tintype portraits.
Tintypes: oddities in the family album
Many older family photo albums and collections of family snapshots contain mysterious little pictures printed on thin plates of metal. These "tintypes" - also sometimes called ferrotypes - were a…