Greg and Sylvia Ray Archives ~ Photo Time Tunnel

The Hunter Valley in the 1960s: on film

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:January 28, 2020
Post Category:History / Newcastle, NSW, Australia / Vintage Photographs and Photography

In 1961, when dairying was one of the Hunter Valley's major industries and it seemed that the valley's future would be as a food-bowl to the nation and perhaps the…

Travelling Through Time, dedicated to our Dads

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:December 3, 2019
Post Category:Greg Ray's Writing / History / Newcastle, NSW, Australia / Vintage Photographs and Photography

Our 10th book, Travelling Through Time, will always be associated in our minds with sad endings and joyous beginnings. That's because for much of 2018 as we worked on the…

Our Town Revisited: Newcastle in colour with a focus on the 1970s

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:November 12, 2019
Post Category:Greg Ray's Writing / History / Newcastle, NSW, Australia / Vintage Photographs and Photography

This is the Newcastle that I remember from my own younger days. And this is the most personal of our books to date, peppered with fragmentary anecdotes of my memories…