Postcards from the Past, by Greg and Sylvia Ray
I've long been fascinated by postcards - especially old ones. They speak of a time when communication was a more leisurely business than it is today, and yet they symbolise…
The Wellen: Soviet ship in Newcastle, NSW, 1942
A slowly evolving story, with some plot holes remaining to be filled. Why was the Wellen in Australian waters? And what about the Minsk, whose officers apparently visited the damaged…
A BHP mail-room boy and shipping clerk remembers
When Neville Chant started work as a clerk at the BHP Company's Newcastle steelworks in 1936, he was allocated to the correspondence department as a mail-room boy. He'd just finished…
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