On a hot Australia Day in 1945
Believe it or not, this photograph was taken at the corner of King and Darby Streets, Newcastle, on Australia Day, 1945. A lug on a King Street hydrant had snapped…
Police at the scene of the murder at East Maitland, 1960
Maitland’s “double-headless” murders of 1960.
On Saturday, April 23, 1960, Maitland reeled in shock when news broke of a gruesome double murder in a small isolated hut off Turton Road, not far from the East…
Swansea Bridge, NSW, as it was
Pet emu ate the engine nuts: a guided tour of 1920s Swansea
Nearly every weekend and holiday from the mid-1920s to 1930, Maitland boy Neville Chant spent at Swansea with his family in their weekender on Black Neds Bay. Now more than…