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…