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Read more about the article Radio operators in the 1955 flood
An army DUKW with flood refugees in Maitland during the 1955 flood crisis.

Radio operators in the 1955 flood

During the years I worked at The Newcastle Herald, I received many items of correspondence that I wasn't able to use. Often this material was very interesting, but if I had no immediate use for it (given that the newspaper was both selective and demanding about content and timing) it generally went into desk-top trays before migrating into filing cabinets. When I left the paper in 2015 brought home some boxes of this material which otherwise would have been disposed of. From time to time I dip into these old files - now in my home…

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Read more about the article Art from disaster: Ron Morrison’s last exhibition
Ron's submerged home, showing the peak flood level (left); Ron as a young man at The Maitland Mercury newspaper office; some flood-damaged items from Ron's collection.

Art from disaster: Ron Morrison’s last exhibition

When a monster flood ripped through the Northern NSW town of Lismore and surrounding districts in 2022, veteran photographer Ron Morrison lost almost all his possessions and his health took a severe hit. Forced from a comfortable ground-floor flat beneath his son's home in the riverside town of Woodburn into respite care in a nursing home, Ron - already frail - struggled with the situation. Ron's wife Liz had already been moved into care before the flood, due to slowly encroaching dementia. Liz Morrison in the ground-floor apartment she shared with Ron, before it was destroyed…

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Read more about the article Stories from old postcards. Part 2

Stories from old postcards. Part 2

Back in the early years of the 20th Century, in the golden age of postcards, untold thousands of cards criss-crossed the world, carrying necessarily brief greetings between friends and loved ones. They were cheap to send, easily available, and keenly collected - especially by youngsters. Today these old cards still hold some fascination. Sometimes they are interesting because of the illustrations on the front, other times for the inscriptions on the back, and sometimes for both. ______________________________________________________________________________ This card is a "real photo" card, produced by Charleston Studios in Newcastle. Real photo cards are simply photographic…

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