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Read more about the article Tales of the ’55 flood: Harry Boyle’s story
Harry (left) and his brothers Brian, Jack, Lex and Gus cleaning up after the 1955 flood.

Tales of the ’55 flood: Harry Boyle’s story

Harry Boyle was 36 when the big flood struck his dairy farm at Swan Reach, near Hinton, in the Hunter Valley of NSW. The former Australian Army commando had been back from the war in New Guinea for 10 years and had settled down to farming with his wife, Elsie, and his two young sons, Peter and Geoff, aged 10 and 11. Elsie Boyle Harry Boyle Harry had seen his share of floods on the Hunter River and its tributaries, and when he heard another was on the way in 1955 he wasn't too worried. The…

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Read more about the article The amazing photograph of the Hinton Wharf collapse

The amazing photograph of the Hinton Wharf collapse

IT was a photograph that should not have been possible, considering the cumbersome glass-plate camera Jack Little was using. Press photographer Jack Little was at the right place at the right time on August 14,1932. Not only that, the assignment the veteran Sydney and Newcastle Sun photographer had been sent to cover on August 14, 1932 was the epitome of boring. And yet, by pure chance, Little took a photo that day that remains a wonder of news photography. Little, who was working at the Newcastle Sun on secondment from the Sydney Sun, had been sent…

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