Audley Reay’s memories of Newcastle and the Hunter in the 1880s
Among some papers given to me by Barry Magor - son of transport collector Ken Magor - was a photocopied pamphlet titled: Memories of the Hunter and Newcastle in the Eighties, by Audley Reay. That name was unfamiliar to me, until I spent a morning interviewing centenarian Neville Chant, who unexpectedly brought up the same unusual name in the course of discussion, describing Audley Reay as Maitland Council's health inspector who once lived - according to Neville - "next-door to the pigyards". A newspaper photo of Mr Reay at the time of his retirement in 1939.…