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Read more about the article Ones that didn’t get away: people with fish.
Two women with a flathead, probably at Lake Macquarie. Photo by Milton Merrilees.

Ones that didn’t get away: people with fish.

Rummaging around collections of old amateur and family photos and negatives I find certain themes recur. One of these themes is fish and fishing. People love fishing, and taking photos of each other fishing. Personally, I am nobody's idea of a fisherman. You can count the fish I've caught on the fingers of one hand and still have a couple of fingers left over. Fish fingers, probably, since that's more my style than worrying myself with cold winds, tangled lines, smelly marine life and all the rest of the alleged pleasures that accompany the fishing life.…

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Read more about the article Thornthwaite, via Scone. Some of the Hunter’s earliest photographs

Thornthwaite, via Scone. Some of the Hunter’s earliest photographs

All the images and most of the information in this post were supplied by members of the Docker and Brougham families, via Malcolm Docker. . Among the earliest photographs known to have been made in the Hunter Valley of NSW is a series taken in the far reaches of the upper valley, some of which may have been taken as early as the late 1840s. Joseph Docker. . These images, produced during the infancy of the science and art of photography, were created by Joseph Docker, a well-to-do settler from England who built a notable home…

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Read more about the article Our Town Revisited: Newcastle in colour with a focus on the 1970s

Our Town Revisited: Newcastle in colour with a focus on the 1970s

This is the Newcastle that I remember from my own younger days. And this is the most personal of our books to date, peppered with fragmentary anecdotes of my memories of growing up in Our Town. My unrequited wish to go on Romper Room, for example. And of course my still-jarring memories of the 1989 earthquake - the 30th anniversary of which coincides with the production of this book. Newcastle's East End, late 1970s. Photo by Ron Morrison. For the past decade, Sylvia and I have produced a collection of historical photographs each year. It started…

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