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 of Beaumont Street - preparing for Christmas and New Year celebrations. Ray had made video his hobby about three years before, after he'd suffered a heart attack and stroke, and he credited the hobby with helping him find a reason to keep living. (My source for this information is an article by Mike Scanlon, in The Newcastle Herald. I'm afraid I don't know the date of…