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The steam trams of Maitland

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:March 7, 2020
Post category:History Vintage Photographs and Photography
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The steam trams of Maitland are fast vanishing from memory, but at one time there were high hopes that a tramway system might link Maitland, Kurri Kurri, Cessnock, Homeville and…

Old Waratah tramcars being towed to the bush as accommodation for single men in the Great Depression.

Old trams became Depression housing

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:July 24, 2019
Post category:History Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vintage Photographs and Photography
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DURING the Great Depression hundreds of Hunter people lived in makeshift humpies cobbled together from whatever materials their owners could scrounge. Some of the camps were Nobbys Camp near Horseshoe…

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