{"id":6279,"date":"2019-04-26T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T07:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2020-08-05T22:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:25:47","slug":"when-mum-made-guns-for-aussie-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phototimetunnel.com\/when-mum-made-guns-for-aussie-soldiers","title":{"rendered":"When Mum made guns for Aussie soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Oh my God, that’s my Mum!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was showing the general manager of The Newcastle Herald<\/em>, Julie Ainsworth, a proof copy of our 2011 book, Recovered Memories<\/em>, which contained many rare photographs taken around the Newcastle area during World War 2. Julie was flicking through the pages, making polite noises and nodding approval, when suddenly she spotted her mother in a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“That’s my mother, Jean Dunbar, and she’s working in the Owen Gun shop at Lysaght’s in Newcastle.” Julie declared. It was a wonderful insight into a photo about which I knew little – beyond the fact it illustrated munitions manufacture in Newcastle during the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie then brought in her mother’s old photo albums which contained wonderful pictures of women workers involved in emergency drills at Lysaght’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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