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Newcastle Herald staff picnic December 12, 1936

A gallery of workplace photos: Part 1

It's not so fashionable these days, it seems, but there was a time when group photographs of people at their workplaces were standard fare. Here is a gallery of workplace photos, mostly from Newcastle, NSW. A staff photo from Newcastle's BHP steelworks in 1935 - the company's jubilee year. The photo came from Mrs Jan Collins, whose mother, Esme Moodie, is in the picture. Esme married Christopher Windsor in 1933, but kept her maiden name at work. She left work in 1936 to raise her family. Her husband was a crane driver at BHP's open hearth…

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Allan Richards’ showbiz obsession

Some people probably know more about movies and shows than Allan Richards, but you aren’t very likely to meet one of them. Allan’s knowledge of the film industry – and especially the musicals that are his greatest passion – is truly encyclopaedic. Allan started seeing movies at the age of four and never stopped. As an adult he took to live theatre, performing in a string of musical comedy roles, spent his little spare time providing entertainment spectacles at air shows and other events, dressed as “Buttons” the giant orange cat for his local television station’s…

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Read more about the article The phantom of the Victoria Theatre and other cinema tales
The old Victoria Theatre, now undergoing restoration.

The phantom of the Victoria Theatre and other cinema tales

THE entertainment Max Donnan enjoyed during his long career in Newcastle cinemas wasn’t always on the big screen. Some of it came from the clientele, some came from the quirks and challenges of the various theatres and a little bit came from the ghost. That was the ghost at the old Victoria Theatre in Perkin Street, which rejoiced in Max’s time in the full name “British Victoria Theatre”. The Vic has a treasured place in Max’s memory, but he admits the ghost rattled him more than a little on the two occasions he encountered it. He…

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