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Hartley Spurr, legendary bait man

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:February 20, 2019
Post Category:History / Miscellaneous / Newcastle / vintage photographs

Quite a number of years ago my elderly next-door neighbour asked me what I knew about a man named Hartley Spurr. I told him I had never heard the name,…

Allara, the ship that wouldn’t die

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:February 14, 2019
Post Category:History / Militaria / Miscellaneous / Newcastle / vintage photographs

WHEN a torpedo-damaged freighter was towed into Newcastle Harbour in July 1942, at the height of Japan's deadly submarine campaign against Australian shipping, a Newcastle Herald photographer was on the…

Sailor Bill saw the ghost of his old ship

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:February 11, 2019
Post Category:History / Militaria / Miscellaneous / Newcastle / vintage photographs

Two boys on the Newcastle waterfront circa 1937 - with the ship Danmark in the background. SOMETHING about the photograph kept drawing Bill Lieb's eyes back. The picture was in…