Museum excursion to Port Stephens, 1880
Leafing through old newspapers often yields interesting material, some of it relevant to the Hunter Region of NSW where I live. The following two-part article is a good example. It…
Two women with a flathead, probably at Lake Macquarie. Photo by Milton Merrilees.
Ones that didn’t get away: people with fish.
Rummaging around collections of old amateur and family photos and negatives I find certain themes recur. One of these themes is fish and fishing. People love fishing, and taking photos…
Hartley Spurr, legendary bait man
Quite a number of years ago my elderly next-door neighbour asked me what I knew about a man named Hartley Spurr. I told him I had never heard the name,…