tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46926087963999616722024-03-08T22:34:16.243+11:00Hidden HamiltonDiscovering stories about Hamilton - its people, places, past and present.
Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-67102293649583898452018-01-03T17:54:00.015+11:002021-12-07T10:00:46.203+11:00Signing off...<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">My work to bring to light the hidden history of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">It began on Friday, 17 May, 2013 with my first post on this blog, about the Hamilton Turkish baths. Soon, blogging was taking me on an adventure I'd never imagined.<span><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">My book, ‘Hidden Hamilton: Uncovering stories of Hamilton, NSW’ was launched on 11 November, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Feedback, information and stories flowed in – so the blog posts continued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">A companion volume, ‘More Hidden Hamilton: Further stories of people, place and community’ was published on 28 June, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Both books drew extensively from over 70 posts on this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">To everyone who has travelled with me on my
journey to discover Hamilton, thank you. Your engagement, encouragement and
contributions have made the experience a highlight of my life. Special thanks to
publisher Hunter Press – Christine Bruderlin and Mark MacLean transformed my
blog posts into books to treasure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">From 2016, two initiatives brought Hamilton’s
history to its streets in a very tangible way. Working with the Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce and interested building owners, I have had 22 heritage plaques installed on buildings of historical significance. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">And a Hamilton Walking Tour brochure has been produced, capturing essential details about 22 points of interest. Print brochures are free,
and a downloadable version with links through to the Hidden Hamilton blog is
available from the Visit Newcastle website <a href="https://newcastle.nsw.gov.au/Newcastle/media/Documents/Cycling and Walking/hamiltonwalkingtour.pdf">here</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Update</b>: Late in 2020 the Newcastle City Council commissioned consultants to create an interactive mobile app based on this walk. It is expected to be available in 2021.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When a new publication, Hamilton Local,
commenced in April 2017, publisher Mark Brooker invited me to write a monthly
history article. Over the following year, I told the stories of buildings long
gone, like Gow’s Drapery and Donald’s Corner, and of the great survivors, like
the Masonic Hall and the Australian Agricultural Company mine manager’s house. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The past few years have held challenges for me
at a personal level, as my multiple sclerosis has worsened and
affected my mobility. Still, I feel so grateful for the privilege of telling some of the stories of Hamilton and its amazing people. Its history and
its stories have been brought to light, hidden no more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">For a recap of my journey, a 5-minute video ‘Beyond
Hidden Hamilton’ produced in 2016 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by a
team of Media Studies/Communications students from the University of Newcastle
can be seen at </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/191102480"><span style="color: #386eff; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">https://vimeo.com/191102480</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">So a big thank you all my contributors,
readers, followers, supporters and encouragers. Hidden Hamilton would never
have happened without you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-35615553848507600112016-11-11T07:55:00.021+11:002021-08-14T14:44:52.394+10:00Danilo's Restaurant and the secret of success<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">'The
secret of success,’ Danny Franco told his three sons, ‘is to always be the
first.’ </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A pioneer of Newcastle catering and
hospitality, restaurateur Danilo (Danny) and his wife Onorina (Nori) founded
the stylish Hamilton restaurant Danilo’s. When he was speaking of success in
business, Danny Franco knew what he was talking about.<span><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In the course of researching <i>Hidden Hamilton</i>, Danilo’s Restaurant cropped
up from time to time, but it was not until Danny’s son Eros Franco contacted me
that I learned the full story. Not least was how Danilo demonstrated his secret
of success in his own business enterprise, one that proudly bore his name for 23
years even after he had retired.<span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Danny’s interest in food began in
the small grocery business he ran with his brother in their home village Ramon
di Loria in the northern Italian province of Treviso<i>.</i> Attracted by the Australian government’s offer of migrant
sponsorship, he boarded the liner ‘Australia’ in 1951, leaving his wife and
sons Joe and Eros to follow later if he did well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Disembarking in Melbourne, Danny
quickly secured work. He began an apprenticeship in the kitchens of the
prestigious Astoria Hotel in Spencer Street. Working two jobs, Danny was able
to bring his family to join him in 1952. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A timely visit to Nori’s brother in
Broadmeadow, a suburb of the hard working industrial city of Newcastle,
revealed a wealth of opportunity for an aspiring restaurateur. In 1957 Danny
moved his family – now with three boys – from Melbourne to Newcastle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Danny’s exposure to how things were
done in a first class metropolitan hotel, together with the expert tutelage he
had received there, were the foundation for what he would bring to Newcastle.
Danny was prepared to start small, but importantly, the business would be his
own. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The first independent venture of
Danny and Nori Franco in Australia was the Hamilton Expresso Coffee Bar at 78
Beaumont Street, Hamilton, in 1957.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Coffee Bar, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span><span>78 Beaumont Street, Hamilton, </span></span><span>late 1950s </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Franco family collection)</span></span></div>
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would be essential to the success of the coffee bar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Danny
Franco imported one of Newcastle’s first lever coffee machines </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">for the </span><span>Expresso
Coffee Bar. A mural painted by Newcastle artist and </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span>restaurateur </span><span>Giuseppe Risicato can be seen on the back wall </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Franco family collection)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Then there was food. Nori was an
essential partner in this initiative, working in the kitchen under Danny’s
guidance. There were no chefs in those early days. ‘I boiled water and it used
to get lumps!’ she would joke disparagingly about her cooking skills. But she
proved to be an exceptional student, later leading a team of cooks and a
kitchen hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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background,’ explains Eros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Onorina
(Nori) Franco, 1950s </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">(Franco </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">family collection</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Expresso Coffee Bar menu was traditional
Australian café food and a selection of authentic Italian dishes. Breakfast,
lunch and dinner were served. It was not uncommon to see waiting customers queuing
down Beaumont Street, especially after a cinema session at the Roxy Theatre. <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Small businesses – especially
involving husband and wife – can be hard on family life. Danny and Nori took
the difficult decision to send their boys to boarding school, initially in
Aberdeen (near Muswellbrook) and then in Sydney. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Outside 78 Beaumont Street, with the family Holden
– </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(L-R) N Franco, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Tony O’Beirne (of the </span><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com/2014/11/bernies-bar.html" style="font-family: arial;"><span>wine bar</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> family) Joe Franco (higher), </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Robert Franco (lower) </span><span style="font-family: arial;">and Eros Franco </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Franco family collection)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Danny Franco became famed for the fabulous
spreads he created, especially for parties and weddings. His antipasto
extravaganzas were as elaborate as any produced at the Astoria.<o:p></o:p></span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Franco family collection) </span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Six years later, in 1963, Danny
purchased the menswear section of <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/inside-gows-drapery-gow-girls.html">Gow's</a> department store. He built a new building
at 66 Beaumont Street, setting up Danilo’s Restaurant. Thus, Danny would move his
enterprise from a successful small café to an even more successful restaurant
in a new setting. Seating 110 diners, this was to be a stylish, fine dining restaurant
that evoked the spirit of the Astoria.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Invitation to the opening of
Danilo’s Restaurant, 66 Beaumont Street,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> Hamilton, </span><span>Saturday 23 November 1963.
Danny Franco was an active member </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">of the Hamilton-Broadmeadow Lions Club </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">(Franco
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Danilo’s would become the place to
go to celebrate a special occasion – engagements, anniversaries, graduations,
birthdays - whether for an intimate couple, or a big party. White linen
tablecloths and napkins, crystal wine glasses, gleaming silver cutlery, attentive
wait staff, fresh flowers, candlelight, and sumptuous food – for so many Novocastrians, eating at
Danilo’s was an experience and a place to remember. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘You just felt special walking in
there,’ said one Novocastrian, commenting on Danilo’s on the Lost Newcastle
Facebook page. ‘A wonderful restaurant owned by the nicest people ever!’ said
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business executives could impress potential clients, with regular visits from
BHP, Goninans, Ampol, Brambles and British Paints along with many others
holding accounts with the restaurant. Some came for lunch and dinner!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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parliamentarians also dined at Danilo’s. Among the many were politicians such
as Sir Allen Fairhall (Federal Minister for Defence) and Milton Morris (NSW Minister
for Transport), actor Chips Rafferty, golfer Gary Player, rugby league
footballer Johnny Raper MBE, motor sports personality Ken Tubman, and barefoot
water skier Garry Barton. <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The opening 1963 menu was extensive
and ambitious – four lobster dishes, seven types of steak, six chicken dishes,
pasta, omelettes, prawns, oysters, cold buffet and salads, light refreshments
such as toasted sandwiches and asparagus fingers, coffee, many cheeses
(including Italian and Australian), and continental cake. The wine list too,
was impressive, and included Penfold’s Grange. Danny’s personal reputation as a
connoisseur of fine wines would become widely known.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and produce,’ Eros tells me. ‘ Back in those days the fishermen would throw the
calamari over the side of the boat and Dad would take it off their hands.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could take orders for three courses from eight people, remembering exactly who
ordered which dish,’ Eros says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘firsts’ for the Newcastle catering scene. Next, with live music – a quartet,
including a double bass and piano to entertain diners. This was short lived and
soon replaced with an organist/pianist, Arni Zigurs, and a dance floor. In the
early 1970s, a cocktail bar was part of the décor of the restaurant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">Creating an experience to remember: (L-R) Danny Franco, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">head waitress and wait staff, and far right, musician Arni Zigurs </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">(Franco family collection)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">After leaving school in 1968, Eros joined
the family business, spending some time training in hotel and catering
management at the East Sydney Technical College. When Eros’s brother Joe became
part of the team in the early 1970s, Danilo’s Restaurant was a real family
business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A normal working day at the
restaurant would start at 6.00 or 6.30 am and finish anywhere between midnight
and 3 am six days a week. There would be a reprieve for about two hours in the
afternoon. But then, Sundays were not always free, either. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘On Sundays they often used to have
picnics which were to die for. There would be oysters, prawns and calamari
along with antipasto, barbeque steaks and the occasional suckling pig, and
desserts. Dad would often invite five or six families along to these.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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imagination, and competition increased, Danilo’s introduced the smorgasbord. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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the central feature of </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Danilo’s smorgasbord lunch </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Franco family collection)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Danny and Nori retired in 1974,
having achieved 17 years in their restaurant businesses in Hamilton. As well as
wanting a break from the unremitting labour of restaurant life, Danny was a
keen golfer and a popular golfing partner. He won the Merewether ‘C’ Grade Championship
in 1969 with his infamous one-handed putting. <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Nori focused on her home. Eros
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Going shopping for our domestic
groceries left her somewhat confounded as a 200 pound bag of potatoes, a 50
pound bag of carrots and a couple of boxes of tomatoes might just be a little
too much for a family of three!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Nori took up golf, learned how to
drive, gardened and sewed. All the things she never had time for during her 6+
days a week working life. Danny and Nori enjoyed inviting friends for dinner
parties, and over the years that followed, loved spending Sunday evenings with
their ever-growing family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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responsibility for running Danilo’s for a further two years after their parents
withdrew from the business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Eros told me that late one night,
while putting out the garbage bins, they noticed an usual sight. A small herd
of cows was meandering along Beaumont Street. The young men acted swiftly and
drove the cows around the back of their building and into the car park. The
gate was locked behind them. While the thought of ‘all that rump steak’ was
appealing, Eros and Joe did telephone the police. It transpired that the cows
were escapees from the nearby Broadmeadow showground, and were duly returned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> In 1976, Danny decided to formally retire, and
lease out the restaurant. A condition of lease was that the name Danilo’s be
retained for the duration of the 5 year lease. Danny and Nori wrote a personal,
typed letter to ‘friends and customers’ telling them of their decision, and
explaining the new arrangements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘We have worked very hard for many
years and now we look forward to a happy retirement,’ they wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘In Newcastle we have seen our three
boys grow to manhood, since which time we have gained two daughters-in-law,
with a third coming up, and also two lovely grandchildren – all true-blue
Australians, and thus we count our blessings.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This has now grown to eight
grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> Danilo’s would operate until Christmas Eve,
1976, reopening in January 1977 under lease to Harry Van Der Wyst, formerly
chef of the Glacier Restaurant next door to Danilo’s. Eros and Joe were free to
seek new, independent careers. Joe went into concreting and Eros continued in
catering for a further three years before joining Joe in concreting and then,
in 1983, moving to Tomago Aluminium. <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">A rare street view of Danilo’s, 66
Beaumont Street Hamilton, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">late 1960s </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Danilo’s was eventually sold to
Harry Van Der Wyst, and Danny Franco’s interest in the restaurant ceased in
1981. Neil Papworth succeeded Harry Van Der Wyst as owner/manager. The
restaurant that had maintained the Danilo’s name since its inception closed in
1999, when all furnishings and fittings were auctioned off.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Times had already begun to change.
Eating out was becoming a more frequent event, more casual and with faster
through-put of customers. Take-away food outlets swamped our cities and towns. The
fine dining experience, enjoyed over a whole evening, was becoming a thing of
the past. Danny and Nori celebrated their 50<sup>th</sup> wedding anniversary
at Chuddley’s in Beaumont Street, Hamilton – another fine dining venue that
like Danilo’s, would also eventually succumb to the forces of social change. <o:p></o:p></span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">As I leafed through the photographs
for this story one last time, I reflected on the shared lives of Danny and Nori
Franco. They were remarkable people – adventuring to a new country, starting
afresh, having a dream, taking risks, and achieving financial security for
their family. They also made a remarkable contribution to the suburb of
Hamilton – and to wider Newcastle. Not just generating jobs for others through
employment and purchasing, but innovating, as Danny put into practice his motto
of ‘<i>always be the first.</i> ’ <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Danilo’s has gone. Not gone,
however, are the warmly remembered experiences of dining at Danilo’s. Approaching
her 90<sup>th</sup> birthday, Nori is very proud of ‘her Danny.’ She often
looks over the family photos and reminisces about the times at Danilo’s and the
people they met. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">As one appreciative long-ago diner
commented on Lost Newcastle Facebook, following hundreds of warm comments about
Danilo’s:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Danny
and Nori Franco would love to know how highly regarded their restaurant was.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Vale Danilo Franco 1919 – 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Acknowledgements</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you to Eros Franco for sharing
this information and providing photographs. <span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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Facebook page<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Two posts on the Lost Newcastle
Facebook page in 2013 and 2014 asked <i>‘Who
remembers Danilo’s?’<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Hundreds did! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The posts generated over 150
comments, some of which have been reflected in this story already. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Overwhelmingly, respondents wrote of
a memorable event associated with a night out at Danilo’s, or how their
horizons had been expanded by dining there. One spoke of celebrating her 16<sup>th</sup>
birthday with her family, and the embarrassment of having her photo taken for
next day’s local paper. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘My first date in 1973 took me
there,’ wrote another. Others commented –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘It was the place to go for an
anniversary or a birthday. You just felt special walking into it.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Had our first dinner date there!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Had my 21<sup>st</sup> there 40
years ago – great meals and fantastic cocktails.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Danilo’s was very special, perfect
food, service and décor.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Very special times there.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">What
made the experience memorable?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘One of the best fine dining restaurants
in Newcastle,’ said one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Another offered this description: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘The restaurant was dimly lit and
elegantly decorated with antiques. … you were greeted on arrival and the door
was opened for you on departure. You were seated at the table with your chair
lifted out for you …your serviette placed on your lap.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A number praised the beautiful music
of the pianist Arni Zigurs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">One woman who worked in the kitchen
described what fun it was; how she learned Italian from the women (‘there were
no chefs in those days’). ‘It was nothing to see the lobsters/crabs walking
around the kitchen …Danny would drive to Sydney to collect the pheasant from
the plane from Europe ….they were hard workers’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">To sum
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Danilo was a lovely, funny,
generous man.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘A wonderful restaurant owned by the
nicest people ever! It was a place for special occasions. Just gorgeous!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Danny and Nori Franco would love to
know how highly regarded their restaurant was.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small;">Carla
Brinkworth, a keen member of the Lost Newcastle Facebook group </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">and staffer at </span><span lang="EN-US"><i>Delikacies</i> (formerly <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/pina-deli-community-of-food-lovers.html">Pina Deli</a>)
celebrated her 21<sup>st</sup> birthday at Danilo’s</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small;"> in 1983. Her question to
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and over 200 ‘likes’. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">A 2013 posting had drawn a similar response.</span></span></div>
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comments made on the Lost Newcastle Facebook page. No names have been used for
this story, but the original comments and many more can be found by becoming of
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">My personal quest to understand
Hamilton began in 2013 when we moved here to live. I shared my discoveries
through my Hidden Hamilton blog and Facebook page. <o:p></o:p></span>After the publication of my book ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hidden Hamilton'</i>, based on the first
year of my blog, I thought that was enough. I was wrong.<span><a name='more'></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Ever since the book came out, in
November 2014, people have been in touch with me: adding information to what
I’d written, identifying people and places in photos, and suggesting ideas for
new stories. More people have become involved, commenting on the Facebook pages
of Hidden Hamilton and Lost Newcastle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've had more conversations, and met
even more people with deep connections to my suburb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Inevitably, ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">More Hidden Hamilton – Further stories of people, place and community’ </i>came
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘More
Hidden Hamilton’ </i>will be published on 28 June, 2016. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://hunterpress.com.au/">Hunter Press</a> has
pre-publication special offers to purchase one or both books - the offer ends 19 June, when the book will be available at our usual outlets. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Go to <a href="http://hunterpress.com.au/">http://hunterpress.com.au</a> or enlarge the flyer at the end to see the details. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">People ask me – how is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘More Hidden Hamilton’</i> different from
the first book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Hidden Hamilton’?<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">More Hidden Hamilton’ </i>is rich with new stories of Hamilton places
and people, ordinary and extraordinary. It also enlarges on a couple of very
popular stories from my first book. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">However, there is one enduring
thing that remains with me after my exploration of the forces that have shaped Hamilton
over more than a century of challenges and change. That is a better
understanding of the many ways in which community can be created, and how a
sense of home and belonging can be achieved in what may seem the most ordinary
of settings. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">It’s learning for our times.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">And there is another community that
has grown as a result of my personal quest.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hidden Hamilton</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, the blog and the books,
would not exist without people who have willingly shared their stories, as well
as those who have connected me with them. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">My thanks to them, and also to everyone who has
commented on the Hidden Hamilton blog, and the Hidden Hamilton and Lost
Newcastle Facebook pages. Quite a few of your lively and informative comments
have been reproduced in </span>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">More
Hidden Hamilton’</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">,</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> with permission of course. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10131a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s time to press the ‘pause’ button for the Hidden Hamilton
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10131a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In just over two and a half years, 69 stories have been written
and posted here, along with hundreds of posts on the Hidden Hamilton Facebook
page. A book, ‘Hidden Hamilton – Uncovering stories of Hamilton NSW’ (Hunter
Press, 2014) based on the first year of the blog, is now in its second
printing.<span><a name='more'></a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10131a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Now it is February 2016 and I am finalizing the manuscript and
photographs for my next book, ‘More Hidden Hamilton – Further stories of
people, place and community.’ Hunter Press will publish this in June. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10131a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Many of the new stories that have appeared in the blog over the
past year will be in the book, often with fresh details and comments from you -
readers of the blog and Facebook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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another project drawing on my time and attention in the first half of 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">As a result of my research and story
telling about Hamilton’s social and built history, and a proposal I put to the
Hamilton Chamber of Commerce last year, work has begun on an exciting heritage
initiative for the suburb.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This initiative aims to make Hamilton's unique heritage more visible to everyone who walks its streets. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Attractive
and long lasting heritage plaques </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">are to be installed on </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">at least 20 Hamilton buildings of heritage
significance and other historically significant sites. As well, a Hamilton
Heritage Walking Guide will be designed and printed.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Sites
included will be some of the 66 Hamilton buildings, parks and monuments that
are listed in the NSW State Heritage Inventory under the Newcastle Local
Environmental Plan 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Familiar
examples are the former Masonic Hall, Volunteer Fire Station, and Mechanic’s
Institute (Anzac House) along with Gregson Park, and several hotels and
churches. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">There are
many other sites of historic interest where the original buildings no longer
exist but where a plaque would link the present building with the past of the
site. You’ve read stories on this blog about places such as Donald’s Corner, the
Roxy Theatre, the Italian Centre, and Hamilton's last hardware store. This initiative will
draw on both categories of sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much work ahead, enlisting the support of building owners, writing the text for
the plaques, commissioning their manufacture and writing and designing a guided
walk brochure. The Chamber has set up a small working group to implement the project.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Right
now, there is a wave of interest in Newcastle’s past. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This is
the time to catch the wave of that interest, and leave something tangible in
place so future generations can know the origins of their place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The
stories of Hamilton will be a proud part of that narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In the
meantime, enjoy some of the 69 posts in the Hidden Hamilton blog archive –
many are more detailed than what has been possible to reproduce in the books. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-26894931814470499362015-12-09T15:42:00.017+11:002021-08-14T14:30:11.861+10:00A community finds its place - the Lettesi story<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i>‘Why did we leave? Why wouldn’t we leave? We had lost everything.’</i> <div><br /></div><div> In the Hamilton home of Tony (Antonio) and Pina D’Accione, I am listening to Ralph (Raffaele) Della Grotta with his wife Maria tell of their experiences as a member of the Lettesi community in Newcastle. The Lettesi<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="font-family: arial; mso-footnote-id: ftn1; text-align: left;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> are part of a unique community of extended family members of some 145 households where one or both partners were born in the Abruzzo village of Lettopalena in Italy, and who settled in Newcastle between 1950 and 1956. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="font-family: arial; mso-footnote-id: ftn2; text-align: left;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"> Two similar Lettesi communities are located in America and Argentina. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="font-family: arial; mso-footnote-id: ftn3; text-align: left;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span><a name='more'></a></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">I first wanted to write about the unique system
of support that emerged to sustain this community as they forged new lives. As
I began, I quickly realized that it would be impossible to do so without trying
to communicate something of the larger context of the Lettesi story. Because –
like the Lettesi themselves – it is all connected.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">The pioneers<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">The Australian story of the Lettesi begins in
1925 with the arrival in Brisbane of Giacomo (Jim) De Vitis. In 1927, he was
joined by his brother in law Arcangelo Rossetti. Arcangelo’s sons followed - Antonio
in 1929 and Giacomo (Jim) in 1931. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The men settled around Proserpine, in north Queensland, and found work in the
cane fields. By 1938, Antonio and Giacomo Rossetti had purchased their own farms
in the area. These farms enabled the brothers to sponsor others from their home
village.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">So began a chain migration process, initiated in
particular by Antonio Rossetti. With the prospect of work on the cane farms, many
men from Lettopalena emigrated, first to cut cane, then sometimes moving
elsewhere to find jobs that suited them better. Decades later, Tony and Ralph would
be among them. <span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title="">[5]</a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
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Proserpine, Queensland early 1950s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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provided a welcome distraction from the tough working conditions <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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courtesy of Ralph and Maria Della Grotta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">The industrial city of Newcastle in NSW held
the promise of a wide range of job opportunities and it was inevitable that some
would find their way there. One man was a key link in the movement of Italian
migrants between Proserpine and Newcastle – Giovanni De Vitis. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Giovanni (John) followed his father Giacomo De Vitis to Australia in 1932, aged 17. He moved to Newcastle in 1947 and found permanent work in the dockyards. For six months of the year, in the cane-cutting off season, men from Proserpine came to Newcastle; John helped them find work and accommodation. Today, he would be known as 'the fixer.' Over time, many settled permanently in Newcastle. Initially, suburbs like Mayfield, Tighes Hill and Islington were popular as they were cheap, and located close to industries.</span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US">née </span><span lang="EN-US">De
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Ralph Della Grotta arrived in Australia in 1953
aged 17; Tony D’Accione in 1956 aged 18; their first jobs were cutting cane
near Proserpine. Soon, however, both young men moved south to Newcastle, gaining
a variety of experience in different jobs. Eventually, Ralph took up barbering,
and in 1973 opened his own business in Beaumont Street, Hamilton. Tony and Pina
became well known as owners of the continental delicatessen <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/pina-deli-community-of-food-lovers.html">Pina Deli</a> between 1980
and 1991. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">It was not unusual for fit
and able men from subsistence agricultural villages like Lettopalena to work
abroad, so as to better support their families. But what had happened to transform
what had begun as an emigration trickle to Australia in the 1920s into a flow
in the 1950s?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">The story is one of devastation and terror, and
it is in danger of disappearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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village destroyed<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">In the terrible winter of 1943, during World
War II, the village of Lettopalena became caught between the Allied forces
moving north from southern Italy, and the German army trying to hold them back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Picture Lettopalena, perched on a narrow ledge,
backed against the wall of the great Maiella mountain range, overlooking a
ravine of the Aventino River. Some 780 people <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
lived in this town, with a heritage stretching back to the 12<sup>th</sup>
century. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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children and the elderly remained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was critical to their defence strategy. For their own protection and to clear
the space for battle, the residents would be forced to leave their homes, and
prevented from returning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">No one really explained this to the people of
Lettopalena. Instead, on 18 November 1943 forty armed soldiers drove them out,
across the river to Colle delle Mandre, where the animal stables and sheep pens
were located. Confused and frightened, some sheltered in the stables, while others
went to Abbey of Santa Maria di Monteplanizio or a nearby church for the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Early next morning, 19 November, 1943 over in
the town, the soldiers were busy. Preparations were being made for something the
people sensed was deeply ominous. Everyone gathered near the stables to watch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
first blast went off at 9.30 am. It was a deafening, harsh sound…the house of
Vincenzo Martinelli, the miller, was the first to shake, then in an instant was
ripped apart by powerful explosives…dust and smoke engulfed the site of the
former building. The miller’s father …sobbed as he lowered his head in his
hands.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[7]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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house, blowing up a building every two or three minutes with precision timing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ralph Della Grotta too, just a little older. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Maria Della Grotta vividly remembers watching
the fires. Just three years old at the time, she may not have understood the significance
of the tragedy, but her small body would surely have absorbed the howls of anguish
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that rose from the crowd. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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existed. Dust, rubble and debris were everywhere. <o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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the Church of Saint Nicholas, once the heart of Lettopalena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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courtesy of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Carlo Finocchietti </span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title="">[9]</a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="font-family: arial;" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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people out of the stables and nearby buildings. As they left, the stores of hay
were torched. Roofs collapsed, leaving the buildings derelict and dangerous.</div>
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fear and uncertainty followed. Tony remembers returning with his father to what
was left of their house in the ruins to salvage tiles for makeshift repairs to
the stable roof. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Flour was like gold. The women concealed small supplies in their garments. Foraging
in the fields to find something – anything - to feed the family was a daily
challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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into effect the plan of transferring the population out of the strategic buffer
zone. Rounded up at rifle point, frightened and weakened by hunger, the people
were forced to trek through the snow to Palena, the next town. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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march. From Palena they were to go up and over the 300m Forchetta gap, to an
unknown destination. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sentence could not have provoked greater alarm…in the darkness, during a
snowstorm…How could they do it with small children, elderly people, women
weakened by days and weeks of hardship, the sick?’</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Fifteen died on this journey which, it
transpired, was to Pescocostanzo and on to Rocca Pia. The first to die were the
children – their deaths often not noticed as they were carried in their
mother’s arms. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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period of forced wandering and many who did not, are well documented. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Separated from their homes and livelihoods, some managed, like homing pigeons,
to find their way back, only to be chased out again. There were accidents on
the treacherous tracks; frostbite, injuries and deaths in the deep snow;
escapes and sabotage; even a child was born on the way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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like my hosts, carried their memories with them to new lives, in Newcastle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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artist at work recreating Lettopalena, based on a rare original photograph <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">It is no wonder, then, that having endured such
trauma, the Lettesi would cluster together, and support one another. Newcastle
researcher Dr Judith Galvin has studied this community, travelled to the new
town of Lettapalena, and walked in the ruins of the old. She has described the
interconnected kinship system that not only drove the emigration process to
Australia but also generated the system of support that sustained the community
during resettlement. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">From the early 1950s, when the Lettesi network
helped community members find jobs and homes in Newcastle, an informal system to
support those encountering hard times also operated. Judith Galvin explains:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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breadwinner was injured or a family member died, leaders would emerge, arrange
what they could, do the rounds of the community, collecting money to assist the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Over 80
donations were collected for widow Orsina De Vitis, then living near
Proserpine, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">when husband Giovanni died suddenly in 1969, aged 54. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Silvana and Frank De Vitis, with daughters Enza and Rosa, drove from Newcastle </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">to Proserpine to deliver the donations, worth about $1500 in today's currency.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Documents courtesy of Franca Ridewood </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">née De
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">That year, in 1969, the structure was formalized with the
establishment of an elected committee, the Lettesi Committee. The Lettesi Health
Fund was administered by the Committee. Later, the Committee became known as
the Lettopalena Association of Newcastle Inc.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Community members who wished to participate
paid a weekly or annual membership fee, thus financing benefits for eligible
members in need. Modest though the scheme was, it must have been like having a health
fund and unemployment benefit, rolled into one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">The Foundation President of the Lettesi
Committee was Nicolino De Vitis. Nic was one of twelve Lettesi whose
immigration had been sponsored by the Australian government. A caring and
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Six of twelve
men from Lettopalena sponsored by the Australian government </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Bonegilla
Migrant Camp, Victoria, 1952<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(L-R) Benito Di Paolo, Berardino D’Amico, Nicolino
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">‘He was everybody’s social worker,’ she said. ‘He
gave his heart and soul, and whole energy to helping others in every way
imaginable.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Among the twelve sponsored by the Australian
government, Tony Della Grotta was six times President of the Committee, once
Vice President and five times Secretary. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Tony Della Grotta and later, Tony D’Accione became
the longest serving Presidents.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Tony D’Accione was a member of the
Committee from 1970 to 1986, serving as President from 1976 to 1986, once as
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Ralph Della Grotta, like his brother Antonio,
also served his community on the Committee. He was Vice President once and
Secretary on six occasions. Others who made important contributions included
Jimmy Gizzi, Frank De Vitis, John Palmieri, Giovanni Di Claudio and Domenico
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Over time, as the community became more self
sufficient, and other national safety nets were put in place, the role of the
Lettopalena Association changed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Social and recreational activities became more
important, providing a chance for Lettesi to gather together, renew their bonds
of friendship, and enjoy themselves. As their families became established, and their
children grew up, it may have become possible for some to leave memories of
past hardships behind.</span></span></div>
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the occasion. The men cleaned and set up the space; the women moved in and
cooked for the whole day, usually serving a substantial meal of pasta, main
course and cakes. After midnight, when it was all over, the men disposed of bottles
and other rubbish, and the women tackled the piles of dishes. As always, a
small, core group of families provided most of the volunteer labour.</span></div>
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recover and in a few months, do it all over again.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Marie De Vitis, Maria Di Claudio, Anna (Rosa) Martinelli<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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past – it’s easier to meet friends in a local coffee shop, pub or club. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Those who were once the driving force behind the Lettopalena Association are now ageing. Still, the committee continues, served loyally by Croce Di Stefano, Angelo Thodas, Sergio Pigliacampo, Angelo Rossetti, Tony D’Accione and Ralph Della Grotta.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Judith Galvin described the Lettesi as ‘a
community in search of place.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">By 1976, when she conducted a year of in depth
interviews for her research, Galvin found that Hamilton had become the focus of
Lettesi identity. She noted that from as early as 1957, the community had begun
to show a preference for Hamilton over nearby suburbs, and this preference
continued. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Known as ‘Little Italy’ and Little Lettopalena’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Hamilton had become the preferred place to live for a majority of Lettesi.
There were shops where people felt at home; friends and relatives lived nearby
and Beaumont Street was where you’d bump into people you knew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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driven from their homes, and the desperate efforts of their families to find
their way back – regardless of what they would find when they arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Yet some things defied destruction - shared
values and beliefs, kinship networks, their care for one another, and their
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">And many of them brought all this, finally, to
Hamilton, where ‘a village within a village’ has taken root and grown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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taken their families to other Newcastle suburbs, to other Australian cities and
even overseas. Still, something unique remains in Hamilton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Leafing through the pages of Judith Galvin’s
study of the Lettesi, my eye is caught by a quote from an unnamed interviewee:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the places you’ve been to, the places you live – like a bird comes back to
where it’s been – to the places that are familiar.’</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Because this group of people once lost everything,
and had to begin all over again, the best elements of their lives have been
transposed from Lettopalena. Hamilton has been changed irrevocably. That is
their legacy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">(L-R) Maria
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Acknowledgements</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Thank
you to Tony and Pina D’Accione, and Ralph and Maria Della Grotta for sharing
their stories, photographs and resources. </span>Unattributed photographs by Ruth Cotton.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
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time and effort over the years in support of the community.</span></span></i></b></div>
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is the way people of Lettopalena are described – like Australians say ‘Sydneysiders’
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">ethnic
community formation, consolidation and integration. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">' It is online at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://uoncc.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/the-lettesi-story.pdf"><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">https://uoncc.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/the-lettesi-story.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">. A short version is also
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Place.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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similar Lettesi communities are located in Turtle Creek, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, USA and in Caseros, near Buenos Aires, Argentina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Judith Galvin, 1983 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">‘The Lettesi Story - A Community in
Search of Place.' Online at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://uoncc.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/the-lettesi-story.pdf"><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-decoration: none;">https://uoncc.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/the-lettesi-story.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> p.19.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Arcangelo Rossetti was Tony D’Accione’s uncle and also Maria Della
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carlo Finocchietti’s blog is at </span></span><a href="https://blogcamminarenellastoria.wordpress.com/tag/lettopalena/" style="font-family: ArialMT;">https://blogcamminarenellastoria.wordpress.com/tag/lettopalena</a>/</div></div></div></div></span>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-27434746100638709672015-12-06T15:28:00.013+11:002021-08-14T15:01:50.184+10:00A discovery place - Hamilton Public School<span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">My first impression was of some kind
of a discovery garden - but it is a public primary school. Buildings are plain
and functional and there is plenty of paving, but what catches my eye are the
creative touches everywhere. A huge funky chair balances high above the
entrance gate in Samdon Street, and colourful hand painted signposts are
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Principal of Hamilton Public School in 2006, he decided something had to be
done about the state of the grounds. After consultation with parents, staff and
students a six year school improvement plan was developed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%;">Hamilton Public School is blessed
with large surrounds and David immediately saw their potential. His philosophy
is that a school is living history – not just because of its past development,
but because everything that has happened, or been made, or built in a school is
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Public School’s 150<sup>th</sup> Anniversary in 2009, a history walk was
created, beginning at the Samdon Street entrance. One by one, on either side of
the path, nestled among the plants, fourteen simple plaques reveal milestones in the life of the school. They begin in 1858, with the opening of
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1970s and 1980s, Hamilton’s multicultural heritage was reflected by the
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the school. David Jack seems as if he is just as comfortable behind a desk as
hooking a trailer onto his car and heading out to collect some fence palings
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%;">The legacy David Jack has left
Hamilton Public School is in plain sight, all around. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Public School, and to Pastor Andrew Dodd</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> for the introduction. Thank you also to Craig Smith for photographing the history walk plaques at the entrance.</span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-47238766079068954332015-11-23T11:08:00.012+11:002021-08-11T15:37:51.875+10:00Search for the station master's houseSince I first discovered the trove
of online digital images available through Newcastle’s cultural collections<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-footnote-id: ftn1; text-align: left;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">
I have been fascinated by the photograph of the Hamilton station master’s
house. Damaged and discoloured with age, the cottage with three people standing
in front had an other-worldly quality. I wondered where exactly it was –
perhaps it still existed – and who those individuals were.</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Two years later, when researching
the story <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/from-ships-mate-to-hamilton-station.html">'From ship's mate to Hamilton station maste</a>r' I had a
breakthrough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Brian Archer, who had grown up in
Hamilton, had contacted me after the publication of ‘Hidden Hamilton.’ His
great grandfather was Harry Nesbitt, one of Hamilton’s earliest station masters
(1909-1916). Brian had given me some excellent photographs of Harry and his
family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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appearance – tall, and lean, with a narrow head and thick head of hair, and a
substantial moustache. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Gathering historic images for the
blog post, I pulled up the Ralph Snowball image of the cottage, hoping to find
a date. I immediately recognized the man in the photograph - Harry Nesbitt. Off
it went to Brian, who was just as excited as I was, and agreed with me. He
identified Harry, his wife Katherine, and one of their daughters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Station Master’s Cottage, Hamilton NSW (n.d.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The
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Australia</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Where was the house? Perhaps the
Lost Newcastle Facebook community could help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Two cottages closely associated with
the railway station emerged in response to my posting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The first was the Gatekeeper’s
Cottage, next to the railway bridge which carries motor vehicles over the line
at Maitland Road. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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well – he’d grown up beside the railway line, living there with his family from
1962 to 1990. It had long ceased to be used by the gatekeeper, whose job would
have been to open and close the gates on the level crossing that preceded the
overpass, every time a train passed through. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I have lived in Hamilton my whole
life and at 53 have no desire to live anywhere else. I can’t tell you how much
I loved growing up here. I lived on the railway line in a very old house that
was called the Gatekeeper’s Cottage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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front yard and the steps leading down to it were covered in by my mother. There
was also a well in the front yard that was filled in.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has never left him. As the steam train hauling oil tanks from Wickham struggled
to negotiate a curve in the tracks close by, Rob would call out, ‘Hey mate,
chuck us some coal!’ The fireman would direct shovels full of coal into the
gutters, from whence the boys would collect it and take it home to mum to fuel
the cooking stove. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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September afternoon, as we walked to the eastern end of the parkland that now
abuts the railway line to see both houses had once stood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Hard up
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Newcastle community located the site some
way east of the No 1 platform of Hamilton railway station. I thought that would
place it within the same narrow strip of parkland that Rob and I were
traversing, but on the Beaumont Street side of the Gatekeeper’s Cottage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a secret – a piece of Hamilton’s railway history? Two houses, where railway men
once lived ‘on the job’ with their families – but only as long as the job
lasted. Two houses – where large families flourished, kids foraged for coal,
and learned to love trains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p>Thank you to Rob McMahon and the Lost Newcastle community for help with this story. </o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Unattributed photographs by Ruth Cotton.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p><b>Related posts</b></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sydney Junction Hotel</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></p><span class="MsoHyperlink" face="-webkit-standard" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/sydney-junction-hotel-family-story.html" style="color: purple;">http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/sydney-junction-hotel-family-story.html</a></span></span></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p><span class="MsoHyperlink" face="-webkit-standard" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline;">Hamilton Station Master</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/from-ships-mate-to-hamilton-station.html</span></u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p><span class="MsoHyperlink" face="-webkit-standard" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></p></span></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-45522937603228476452015-10-26T16:08:00.012+11:002021-10-02T11:20:57.212+10:00Gregson Park<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">As a gift, it wasn’t quite all it seemed. It was probably the worst piece of land in Hamilton.
That’s hard to imagine today, as we absorb the colourful expanses of spring
flowering annuals and roses, wander the meandering paths, or watch kids in a
playground protected by ancient fig trees.<span><a name='more'></a></span> <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A big deal
was made of it in 1889, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">when Mr Jesse Gregson,
Superintendent of the AA Company, gifted 3.8 hectares of land to the Hamilton
Council. The Council had to guarantee to Mr Gregson that the land would be
devoted solely to the recreation of workers and their families, and promise to
allocate funds for improvement. Was the Council so grateful for this generosity
that the reserve was named Gregson Park, in Jesse Gregson’s honour, or was that
a condition too?<span style="color: #111111;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Entrance gates to Gregson Park commemorate
Hamilton’s </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">first Councillors, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Photograph by Craig Smith<o:p></o:p></span><br /></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">For a start, a stream
that was part of Styx Creek flowed right through the reserve, and often
flooded. Gregson Park was, after all, within the Hunter estuarine system. The
lower south west corner harboured a swamp. It was rough, low lying land covered
by ti-tree scrub and weeds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1890 Alfred Sharp of
Newcastle - artist, architect, draftsman and landscape designer - won the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">£</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">10
prize for his design for Gregson Park.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
However, for reasons unknown, not all his ideas were implemented. Sharp
envisaged that the stream would be developed into a ‘serpentine lake with
islands’.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Council began filling in the waterway with garbage and street sweepings, taking
care to cover each layer with ‘clean material’. The creek was eventually
drained and filled in. In a local example of land reclamation, thousands of
tons of earth and other material were, over time deposited in Gregson Park. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">John Goodyer was
appointed gardener, with authority to travel to Sydney and buy shrubs and
trees. Two bridges were proposed - ‘one over the creek at Samdon Street and one
bridge at Lindsay Street.’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title="">[4]</a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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Park began to take shape as an urban Victorian park, it quickly became a
popular recreational area for the people of Hamilton, as well as a focus for
civic monuments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the earliest built structures in Gregson Park was the Hamilton Bowling Club, formed
in 1896 – with separate bowling greens and clubhouses for ‘ladies and
gentlemen.’ In 2013, almost 120 years of history came to an end when it closed.
It is likely the site will be leased for adaptive re-use as a child care
centre. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When the tennis
courts were built, one court was for residents, the other for teachers and
senior scholars at the public school.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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World War I, in 1905, two 1840s Walker cannons from Victoria Barracks, Sydney
were shipped to Newcastle at considerable expense. They were erected in Gregson
Park, near the Bowling Club. Later, when this central position was needed for a War Memorial, the cannons
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were moved to to the entrance facing James Street. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Gregson Park, early 1900s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Photograph by Dr John Turner, courtesy of Newcastle
Cultural Collections, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia<o:p></o:p></span><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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presented a set of iron gates with stone posts in tribute to him. The gates
would formalize the James Street entrance. Not far away, in Lindsay Street, the
former Gow family residence – <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/survival-of-stately-home.html">'Fettercairn'</a> - still stands. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1908</span></div>
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public drinking fountains were often a feature of nineteenth century recreational
areas. The ubiquitous water bottle wasn’t carried in those days! Often the
erection of a fountain would be linked to an important event or eminent
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and Hamilton’s first Mayor. The Donald family gifted the fountain in recognition
of George Donald’s contribution to the social and political life of the
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gates at the Tudor/Steel Street entrance were installed, Gregson Park was
near-complete. These gates commemorated the members of the first Hamilton
Council, which had been incorporated in 1871. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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visitors to Gregson Park could enjoy ‘19 large flower beds, several lawns, one
mile of walks and two of edging.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> A year
or so later, a War Memorial was built in a premier position within the park.
Dawn services continue to be held in Gregson Park on Anzac Day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><br /></span></span>
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Gregson Park was very well established, and considered ‘the prettiest resort in
the suburb and…unequalled for beautiful surroundings in any other part of the
Newcastle district.’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title="">[8]</a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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equipment was needed for children to enjoy the park. In 1938, a pavilion and
children’s playground was opened by the Lady Mayoress, Mrs J E Wiggins. She
declared this was money well spent; the area would be reserved for women and
small children. She also suggested the novel idea of the Council employing a
(paid) female caretaker who would watch the children in the playground while
their mothers went off shopping.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gregson Park had ‘three times won its class in statewide competitions,’ tended
by head gardener Jim Duck, who farmed near Dungog in his spare time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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children’s playground draws in parents, grandparents and carers throughout the
day; the tennis courts are occupied; sometimes you’ll find a band practicing
beneath the trees. Anyone can join a casual soccer
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Park puts on her best for the big events like Anzac Day
services or May Day celebrations. She will embrace a candlelight vigil for
refugees, community markets, or a boisterous picnic; she will offer us peaceful spaces to stroll,
to soak up some sunshine, or laze on the lawns and drowse. She’s there, for
everyone.<o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">In the same year, 1890, Alfred Sharp also won a
competition for his design of the Upper Reserve, Newcastle, which from 1911
became King Edward Park. Alfred Sharp also designed parks </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">in
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Official Souvenir of the Municipal Jubilee of
Hamilton: 1871-1921.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Peter Murray 2006, From Borehole to Hamilton
Jubilee 1848-1921, Peter Murray Newcastle, p. 76<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-38035049701284367572015-09-22T11:45:00.010+10:002021-08-11T14:42:31.190+10:00Music in the genes - Betty Lind<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When Disney’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beauty and the Beast</i> opened in Newcastle in 2006, three generations
of the Lind family were involved in its production. Carolyn, daughter of Betty
Lind and her late husband Frank, directed. Another daughter Kathryn played
Madame de la Grande Bouche. Three of Carolyn and Kathryn’s children played
‘enchanted objects.’<span><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Betty Lind taught hundreds of Novocastrians
singing, drama and piano; performed in opera, musicals and drama; designed and
sewed countless theatre costumes; and was Secretary of the Newcastle Dramatic
Art Club (NDAC) for 35 years. She would not formally retire until 2008, at the
age of 78. One of the things that gives her great pleasure in her retirement is
continuing to hear from countless numbers of people of the pleasure and
enjoyment they received from her singing and performances.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">With a father like Colin Chapman, who founded
NDAC in 1938, it is no wonder music and theatre are in Betty Lind’s genes. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I grew up with music and theatre as the
mainstay of my life,’ Betty says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Even so, she is the only one of Chapman’s five
children to follow this path.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Betty Lind, n</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">ée</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> Chapman,
came to live in Hamilton as a teenager when her parents moved </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">to
Gordon Avenue in 1944. Her father established not just one, but two Roxy
Theatres in Hamilton.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Leaving school, Home Science High, at the age
of 15, Betty joined her father in his Academy of Music, teaching piano. She’d
been studying piano since she was 6 years old, first in Newcastle, with Ethie
Sadler and then Ellie Dodsley, and later at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
with Alexander Sverjensky and Frank Hutchens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Still, it was not until she was 29 that Betty
made her singing debut, in the lead role in ‘Tosca.’ It was 1959. Betty says
that at 14 she had been told she had ‘a big voice but a rough passage out.’ As
a result she didn’t sing in public until she was 28 years of age. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When Betty sang Tosca opposite Ray McDonald, at
the time one of Australia’s leading tenors, she showed her father what she was
truly capable of. Other roles quickly followed – Bloody Mary in ‘South
Pacific,’ and Josepha in ‘White Horse Inn,’ where she played opposite the man
destined to become her husband, Frank Lind. They married in 1962, setting up
home in Hamilton North.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Betty
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Frank and Betty’s passion for music,
performance and theatre was intensely shared. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frank became NDAC President after Colin Chapman’s
death, keeping his legacy alive. That passion has been passed on to their daughters,
and four grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I was part of an international cast, and one
of just four Australians, chosen to appear at ‘Night of Stars’ on the last
night of the season of ‘My Fair Lady’ at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Sydney. It
was a fundraiser for cancer – starting at midnight and going until 4 am.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Betty felt terrified to be performing in such
illustrious company. She explains:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘To perform on the stage at Her Majesty’s was
an exhilarating experience. I sang ‘Happy Talk’ from South Pacific, with David
Williams (who had been one of Dad’s students in the 1940s) and Chin Yu as Cable
and Liat<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>Both were international stars
with me. The experience was something I will always remember’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Betty also performed with the Sydney Symphony
Orchestra at the Sydney Town Hall under the baton of Georg Tintner. In her
hometown, Newcastle, and in the two Roxy Theatres of Hamilton, Betty has
performed Grand Opera, musical theatre, dramatic presentations, revues and
farce.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Betty associates the birth of her daughters
with shows she performed in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Kathryn was born 13 weeks before we opened
“Call Me Madam,”’ she tells me. ‘Frank and I both had leading roles, (Cosmo and
Madam). Carolyn was born two months after we finished “Flower Drum Song”, in
which once again, Frank and I had leading roles. My costumes had to be made
very full, and I had to remember not to put my hands on my hips.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Both girls grew up in theatre,’ Betty
continues. ‘It is a way of life for the family. They both have excellent voices
which have been passed on to their children.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Carolyn, whose first on-stage performance was
at the age of two, has established herself as a Director of considerable repute.
Kathryn followed the path of her grandmother, Aileen Chapman, who was NDAC
wardrobe mistress for 45 years. In the 2000s, Kathryn costumed all the shows
presented at the Newcastle Civic Theatre. These days, Carolyn lives in Brisbane
with her trumpet-playing husband and children; Kathryn in England, with her
husband and children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Kathryn’s daughters love music and musicals;
Carolyn’s son and daughter love theatre, the performing arts and sport. Whatever
career paths they choose – astronomy, biology, writing, music, visual arts and
sports are on the cards - the legacy left to them by parents, grandparents and
great grandparents will nourish every day of their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Betty
Lind (right) in one of her favorite roles as Mother Superior in </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">a publicity
shot for </span><span style="font-family: arial;">‘The
Sound of Music’ c.1970</span></span></div>
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Colin Chapman, centre is Betty’s daughter Kathryn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 16.8667px;"><b>Acknowledgement</b></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Thank you to Betty Lind for providing photographs and information for this stor</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">y.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Related post</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">The Roxy Theatre</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/the-roxy-theatre.html" style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/the-roxy-theatre.html</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A digital recording of an interview with Betty
Lind by Rosalind Evans as part of a project done by Open Foundation students at
The University of Newcastle in the late 1980s is available online at <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/uoncc/newcastle-dramatic-art-club?in=uoncc/sets/margaret-henry-oral-history"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">https://soundcloud.com/uoncc/newcastle-dramatic-art-club?in=uoncc/sets/margaret-henry-oral-history</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-67892345148104990302015-09-04T15:33:00.013+10:002021-08-23T15:32:52.747+10:00Hamilton Baptist Church<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">It seems only natural that the early
Hamilton Baptist Church would conduct its Christmas Day service on a summer
evening in the much-loved Gregson Park. After all, the Church is directly
opposite, at 108 Lindsay Street, where it has been since 1929. Historical
church records refer to this as ‘our tradition.’</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span><a name='more'></a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When Andrew Dodd became Pastor of
Hamilton Baptist Church in 2003, he immediately saw the potential of the park. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">The carol singing event he created and organized for the next 14 years, </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px;">Carols in Gregson Park, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">would engage the whole community – a vibrant, colourful celebration with appeal to people of all ages and backgrounds. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Protective
branches of an ancient fig frames the area being prepared for </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Carols in Gregson
Park, 20 December 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Church’s beginnings are shrouded
in something of a mystery, with shades of dissent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">We have to go to the Church of
Christ, Merewether, to find the pioneers who planted the seeds of Hamilton
Baptist Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">At first it seemed to be a story of
growth and development. Hamilton had a population of more than 10,000 in the
early 1920s, and some Merewether members from Hamilton thought it was time that
suburb had its own church. The first Church of Christ service for Hamilton
members was held in the home of Mr R T Creek<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
at 1 Pokolbin Road, Broadmeadow, on 16 September, 1923. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had purchased land in Gordon Avenue, and with the dedication of volunteers, a
new building took shape. It was opened on 22 December, 1924. The building has
not survived: Klosters envelops the site today, north east of the intersection
of Tudor Street and Gordon Avenue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hamilton Church of Christ was divided. The Minister Reverend A G Martin and the
majority of the congregation left their denomination and sought Baptist
affiliation. This was granted by the Baptist Union of NSW. At first they held
services in the Masonic Hall, Beaumont Street, and later, the Mechanics’
Institute, in Tudor Street. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The reason for the division of the
original Hamilton Church of Christ congregation is glossed over in the reports
and official history of Hamilton Baptist Church<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
but it is believed to be doctrinal. Both Church of Christ and Baptists practice
adult baptism by total immersion, and it is thought that a difference of
opinion arose over its meaning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Whatever the reason, it must have
been a decision reached reluctantly and only after much discussion and soul
searching. It would not have been easy for those separating to leave behind
their new building, after all the fund raising and hard work that had gone into
that first Hamilton church. Yet one change often generates others, and this may
have been what happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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church once, this group must have felt they could do it again. Land was purchased
at 108 Lindsay Street, opposite Gregson Park, and in 1929, work commenced on
the building. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Volunteers
made up the workforce building the Baptist Church, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">108 Lindsay Street, Hamilton,
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Baptist Church, c.1930s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Membership
began around 50 at its inception, and grew to a consistent 100<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Like any individual or organization
wanting real estate, the Hamilton Baptist Church obtained a mortgage. A
‘Blessing Box’ was considered a successful initiative – members participating
gave a halfpenny a day towards reducing the building debt, making a pleasing
dent in it.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A church is a community whose
members are connected through shared values and beliefs. As I read through the
historical records, year by year from 1934, what emerged was a picture of a
community continually reinforcing those bonds of belief through a multiplicity
of activities and sub-groups. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Sunday School was a core activity –
in 1939, there were 98 children attending classes, with 15 teachers – and
exams! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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School anniversary picnic – the boys wear ties c.1930<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from the collection of Hamilton Baptist Church</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the years, there was an
ever-changing procession of groups – the Christian Endeavour youth leadership
group, men’s groups, Bible study groups, Boys and Girls Brigades, a Ladies
Guild, a choir, a cricket club - but the aim did not. It was to meet the
spiritual and social needs of all the members, creating a cohesive community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">And so there were picnics, hikes,
BBQs, social gatherings, fellowship teas, sports days, Christmas parties, film
evenings, and talent quests. Before the era of television, these social
activities were entertainment. A self-contained world within ‘the world’ was
created, so members could conduct and experience much of their social lives
within the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">What is this
activity? Serving afternoon tea outdoors, and looking </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">at those frocks, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">it has
to be the 1930s</span></div>
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Baptist Cricket Club (n.d.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Standing
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(L-R) Alan Davies, Neill Dunn, Alec McMurray, Bill Oates, Bruce Davies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The evangelical impulse of the
church found expression in open air rallies, crusades, and campaigns. Funds
were raised to assist missionaries serving overseas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">The
Northern District Gospel Open Air Campaigners c1930s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">The
unidentified men in this photograph may be visiting campaigners </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">alongside local
Church members<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">On Christmas Eve 1955, at the annual
service of films and carols in Gregson Park, Mr Arthur Stace was the guest speaker.
A reformed alcoholic, Mr Stace was inspired to write the word ‘Eternity’ in his
perfect copperplate writing on Sydney footpaths over half a million times
between 1932 and 1967. Mr Stace was reported to have given ‘a very fine
testimony’ of his conversion to Christianity. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwxWauYK9-jvN-tKwNJUrH9JQn7K-IbNDe287pj2riK0YwUqKO6dG8u1CkOnIjURncflpeKyOINDBMqGmy55WKvYlEjYV376EHhS0GZAaT2jNVSdg4jwYdIhZBc86HTbufTi5Xvr02BR8/s1600/Gospel+Campaigners+lo+res.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Sign
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Part of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In the years following World War II,
Australia experienced a severe housing shortage. The Church leadership was
concerned about how best to provide accommodation for their Pastor, eventually
buying a brick cottage five doors along from the Church in Lindsay Street, Hamilton.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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altered with the addition of a new vestry and porch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1969 a cottage and land at 101A
Cleary Street, adjoining the back of the church, was purchased. The cottage was
used for Sunday School classes. As the need for separate Sunday School premises
waned over the ensuing years, the cottage became a rental property, generating
income for the Church.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Hamilton
Baptist Church congregation and Pastor D Woodward, early 1970s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph
from the collection of Hamilton Baptist Church</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The establishment of the Hamilton
Baptist Community Pre-School Kindergarten in the Lindsay Street premises during
the tenure of Pastor D Woodward in the 1970s provided a valuable service not
only for Church families but also for the broader community. Now, the service
continues under the auspices of the independent not-for-profit Hamilton
Community Pre-School. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">By the early 1980s, the church
leadership realized something had to be done to regenerate the church and
attract more young people. Thus it was that 23 year old Richard Morrison was
appointed as Pastor of Hamilton Baptist Church. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘They knew that change was needed,’
Richard explains, ‘but perhaps they didn’t appreciate how much.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Richard would face many challenges
as he sought to bring about cultural change within the Church without
alienating the older members. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the concessions Richard asked
for when he was being interviewed was that he would he would not wear a tie at
every service – or meeting, as he says. After the interviewing committee was
reassured that he would definitely wear a tie to funerals, that concession was
granted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Most of the group activities that
had flourished in the decades before had fallen away, although there was a very
small Sunday school, and a Boys Brigade. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The pulpit from which the Pastor
conducted the service and delivered a sermon each Sunday was originally a
large, imposing structure. By this time, there were three pulpits in place,
each successive one smaller than its predecessor, reflecting a gradual move
towards a more informal and egalitarian relationship between pastor and people. <o:p></o:p></span><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Installation
of pews and a high pulpit gave the Hamilton Baptist Church <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">a formal
aspect, 1930s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Photograph provided by Cynthia and Lynne Dalton, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">from the collection of Hamilton Baptist Church<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1995, all three pulpits were removed,
along with the choir platform, most of the timber pews and the baptistry. Part
of the baptistry remains hidden under the floorboards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Where are the ceremonies of total
immersion conducted now, I wonder?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Richard, who remained actively involved in the Church for many years, answers: ‘The beach.’ <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Merewether Ocean Baths and private
pools are also used.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">And what is left inside the church?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Mainly, open space. A few pews along
the walls. Stacks of chairs. At one end, a kitchenette and a church office. In
this setting, no newcomer need feel intimidated, or that they don’t know what
to do. Chairs can be configured to suit the event. From time to time, local community groups hire the facilities for music or drama. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the manse. This not only consolidated the Church’s financial position, but it
also gave its Pastor freedom and independence to choose where to live. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Richard Morrison as Pastor. Andrew had come to know the Church while
undertaking his pastoral training there in 1984-1986. He’d seen the Church as
it was early in Richard’s 20-year ministry, and the significant changes that
had been achieved as it transitioned into a contemporary church. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The general upgrade to the building included a new kitchenette and church
office. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Not long after the refurbishment
was completed, in early June 2007, the Hunter region was battered by torrential
rain and strong winds and declared a disaster area. Flooding was widespread and
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MV Pasha Bulker</i> famously ran
aground on the reef at Nobby’s Beach.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
As Pastor Andrew Dodd wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘In true baptist fashion Hamilton
Baptist Church was 'immersed in water' in last week’s deluge. Nearly 40cms of
water left its trail of destruction through the church.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Not only was the smart new
refurbishment badly damaged, but the church was unfit for use in the short
term. The Church had to look for another venue for the congregation – half of
whom were under the age of eleven. In a spirit of cooperation typical of what
was happening in the broader community at this time, the recently vacated
Salvation Army church in Cleary Street <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">That congregation had merged with
two others, and all three were for a time meeting on neutral ground at the
Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) in Steel Street. Andrew led his congregation
‘on a journey,’ symbolic, he said, of ‘finding hope in the midst of hardship
and ruin.’ The group first viewed the damage in their own building, then crossed
the street to the SDA building to briefly join ‘the Salvos’ and collect the
keys to Cleary Street, and finally, walked to their new temporary home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A Church building is only one part
of its life. When I ask Andrew how Hamilton Baptist Church has changed in
recent times, he speaks enthusiastically of the Church being ‘engaged in the
local and wider community.’ There have been chaplains in two local public schools; scripture teaching in a number of local schools; a
drop-in centre in a local social housing area along with OzHarvest food drops to people's doors. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cafe Estate is a unique collaborative effort with the Baptist Church running a breakfast program and friendship on the premises of and with the full involvement of an independent church - LiveFree Project - with CatholicCare funding and involvement from other agencies such as Mission Australia and an eclectic team of volunteers.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There's also the HopeStreet food van for the homeless; support of Mum’s Cottage (mothers companioning mothers); and fundraising for community development projects in Nepal with a sister church and NGO in the town of Nepalgunj. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Over time, these activities have and will change in response to need and circumstances.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><s><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></s></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">These days, flexible seating enables
the congregation to gather in a semi-circle, the Pastor in their midst. Instead
of a pulpit, a lectern stands discreetly to the side. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And if you bump into Andrew Dodd in
Beaumont Street, or when you roll up to Newy parkrun where he volunteers on a
Saturday morning and is known affectionately as ‘Doddy’ or ‘The Doddfather,’ you’d
hardly guess he was a minister of religion. He’s just part of the community
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">The 25 Minute Pacing Group includes ‘The
Doddfather’ Andrew Dodd, </span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">‘The Godfather of the Region of Runners’ (‘Gentleman
Jim Beisty’), and </span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">‘The Grandfather of Running in Newcastle’ (Alan McCloskey) <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Newy parkrun volunteer photographer Jo Kent Biggs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Update</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Some details in this post were updated in August, 2021.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">After a year of dialogue Hamilton Baptist Church merged with Edgeworth Community Baptist Church. In December 2016, the Edgeworth congregation relocated to Hamilton though in many ways it was a whole new venture for both congregations which had experienced recent gradual decline in numbers. The merger itself was not only successful but many additional folk (yes there were also sadly some losses in the merge) have since joined the congregation without any sense of factions or origins. One feature of the new church is that the church is LGBT+ welcoming, affirming and celebrating which has greatly enhanced the life and ministry of the church. Whether Hamilton Baptist is able to remain in the denomination because of this development is yet to be seen. So a church birthed in denomination controversy may well experience it again - though one thing for sure is that the congregation will remain together!</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Thank you to Pastor Andrew Dodd for providing access to historical documents and photographs, and the above update. Thanks also to Richard Morrison for sharing his recollections as a former pastor.</span></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">The Church’s website can be found at : <a href="https://www.hamiltonbaptist.com.au/">https://www.hamiltonbaptist.com.au</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div></span></div>
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Baptist Church. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">He was
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Mr R T Creek’s son Arthur Creek was a long standing
member of Hamilton Baptist Church and left brief written and oral accounts of
its history. The written account has been used as one of the resources for this
story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Souvenir Golden Jubilee Anniversary Celebrations
1926-1976 Hamilton Baptist Church Lindsay Street. Brochure held by Pastor
Andrew Dodd, Hamilton Baptist Church.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Secretary’s
Annual Report, Hamilton Baptist Church 1934</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Secretary’s
Annual Report, Hamilton Baptist Church 1950<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Secretary’s Annual
Report, Hamilton Baptist Church 1956<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2007_Hunter_Region_and_Central_Coast_storms<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> Andrew Dodd, Press
release for the Hamilton Baptist Church, 14 June 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Salvation Army Church in Cleary Street has since been demolished to make way for
the Salvation Army Regional Headquarters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-31625253651269534772015-08-27T11:11:00.013+10:002021-08-11T14:49:41.844+10:00An Italian childhood - Maria Martinelli<span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">‘I was born in 1938 on a small self-sufficient
farm on the outskirts of Ascoli Piceno, a city on the north coast of the
Adriatic Sea. I am the 10</span><sup style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">th</sup><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"> child of a family of 12, seven brothers,
four sisters and myself.’</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">So begins Maria Martinelli’s life story.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]<span><a name='more'></a></span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">I came to know Maria through her memoir <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nonna’s Story</i>, loaned to me by a mutual
friend. When I call at her home in Hamilton, I notice high on her bookcase the
biggest Thesaurus I have ever seen. That’s a clue as to how this first
generation migrant woman, who wasn’t able to seriously study the English language
until she was in her early thirties, could write a book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Self sufficiency is a word that has been used
loosely ever since the1960s, when it became a lifestyle aspiration of the hippy
generation. If you’ve watched <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gourmet
Farmer</i> on SBS television, you’ll notice it is still an aspiration even for
more affluent people, like the show’s creator, hobby farmer and former
restaurant reviewer Matthew Evans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The self sufficiency I learned about from Maria’s
detailed account of her first 19 years on a small farm in Italy is something
else entirely. It’s not a hobby to dabble in, it’s not a supplement to the
shops down the road – this is real life survival. Maria learned everything,
from weaving and dying cloth for their bed linen and clothes, to baking daily
bread for the large family, to being a builder’s labourer on their home
extension project after World War II. It is no wonder that Maria became just the second Italian
woman she knew of in Newcastle to gain her driver’s license – at the age of 30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Maria’s family home was on the highlands of the
Tronto Valley, with spectacular views of rich, fertile farmlands and in the far
distance, the snow-capped Appennini Mountains. In winter, a mantle of snow
covered her home, at night lit only by a kerosene lamp. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Farm animals were integral to a self-sufficient
lifestyle. The stall for 4-5 cows was tucked into the hillside under the bedroom
shared by the seven boys, with the generated heat keeping them warm on freezing
winter nights. Cleanliness and hygiene were impeccable. It was the children’s
responsibility to brush and feed the cows every day, as well as feed the other
animals - 2 pigs and their piglets,10 sheep, 20 hens and a rooster. Waste was
scrupulously cleaned from the animal compartments and barrowed to the manure
tub, while straw bedding for the animals was regularly refreshed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">There was no running water, electricity, or
public transport for travel to nearby villages, towns or the city. There would
have been little cash to buy things anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">There was a large vegetable garden, an orchard
of fruit trees, a vineyard, and olive trees. The soil was tilled for wheat and
corn by a cow-drawn plough - the main<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>reason the family kept cattle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Crops were harvested by hand, and everything
grown on the farm was processed, then stored in the ‘cantina’ or cellar for
family use. Not just wheat and corn, but also legumes, potatoes, preserved
vegetables and fruit, lard and processed meats like salami, and prosciutto
sustained the family through the long cold winters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The family even had a cannabis plantation.
Harvested plants would be soaked in water for a week until they rotted, dried
in the sun to resemble straw which was then beaten until it became fluffy. The
fibre would be brushed, spun into thread by hand and woven on a loom. The
material was used to make such essentials as grain bags, mattress sacks, bath
towels, paper, string, and shoelaces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Mattresses were stuffed with corn cob leaves,
replaced and freshened each year. The five girls slept in a big bed in their
parents’ room, often keeping them awake with their giggling and chattering. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The whole family worked hard, none less so than
Maria’s parents, Giacomina and Giovanni Ciccanti. Giocomina had only one and a
half years of schooling but was a gifted and respected healer, often called
upon in her community to deliver babies or fix broken bones and dislocated
limbs, using ‘body packs’ made from woven cannabis. Giovanni had fought in
World War I and travelled widely, including to North America. In that time he picked
up a smattering of English and other languages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">When World War II broke out, things began to
change for the family. Two of Maria’s older brothers, Domenico and Leo, joined
the army. Maria turned 7, and started school. Mussolini was in power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Maria and her family witnessed terrifying
scenes on the road below their house. Soldiers were unloaded from army trucks,
shot and their bodies burned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">It was not unusual for young soldiers to seek
food and shelter at farmhouses like theirs – Maria’s parents never refused any
of them, whichever side they fought on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Maria enjoyed school immensely, even though in
winter, she was sometimes so cold in the unheated classroom that she could barely
hold her pen. At night, she did her homework on the kitchen table, under a
kerosene lamp. Pencils were treasured possessions, so she was careful not to
wear hers out too soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">While just 3 years schooling was compulsory, Maria
passed a test to become eligible to undertake 4<sup>th</sup> and 5<sup>th</sup>
class at the next village. It was a four kilometre walk there, and another 4 kilometres
home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Maria remembers that they never washed their
hair – a drop of olive oil was massaged in to the scalp, hair was brushed
briskly and then combed to remove dust before it was plaited. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">‘Our hair always looked and felt very soft,
shiny and clean after brushing,’ writes Maria. ‘Our teeth were never brushed,
either. The fresh fruit and crispy raw vegetables were our teeth cleaners.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Although the family was fortunate enough to
have a spring on their land, water was precious. It had to be carried back to
the house several times a day to meet the family’s needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">About ten minutes walk from the house was a
pond. Kneeling on the bank, Giacomina would labour over the family washing,
helped by her daughters as soon as they were old enough. But first, the soiled bed
linen, towels, table clothes and clothes would be carried on their heads to the
pond. Half the day would be spent washing, scrubbing, and rinsing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Next, a fire would be lit under a 50 litre
boiler, to which 3 kgs of ash, preserved from winter firewood, would be added.
That boiling, ashy water would be bucketed into a wooden tub, containing washed
items that needed bleaching and disinfecting. The following day, it was back to
the pond to rinse everything, spreading the washing out in the sun to dry on
the grass or over shrubs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Winter was the time when inside work was done.
The men repaired tools, and made the cane baskets used to carry fruit and
vegetables, or soiled and clean clothes., The women wove all the material needed
for bed linen and clothes on a large loom, and then dyed the work clothes. At
winter’s end, a tailor and dressmaker would be hired for a week to make
dresses, shirts and work trousers for everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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loom, being used by a workshop participant learning </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">traditional
weaving </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">in Italy today, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">i</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">s similar to that remembered by Maria
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">After the sheep had been shorn, and wool spun
of a spinning wheel, jumpers and socks were knitted. Sheets and pillowcases
were painstakingly embroidered. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sunday School and mass in the parish church that was actually situated on their
farm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">‘Unfortunately the rules of our church were so
strict that almost everything was a sin,’ she writes.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Even as a child, she had a healthy skepticism, detecting contradictions and a
lack of logic in some of the teachings and practices of the church. Nevertheless,
her brother Albino trained as a priest, and two sisters, Giuseppina and Linda, became
nuns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">When Maria left school, she joined the family
workforce on the farm. She was able to shoulder much of the workload borne by
her hard working mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The end of the war brought many changes. Tractors
replaced cows for ploughing, sowing and reaping the crops. People no longer
wanted to remain on farms, as the money pouring in for the post-war
reconstruction of Italy meant they could work for wages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">In the meantime, the Italian government began
to upgrade rural areas, installing electricity and water fountains (water was
not yet supplied to houses), improving roads and providing buses to the city of
Ascoli Piceno. Maria’s parents took advantage of a government subsidy to
improve their house and land. Maria and three brothers helped their father build
‘a new house to be proud of.’ A structure was built around the pond so that the
women could stand while doing the washing; they no longer had to kneel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Two of Maria’s sisters, Rosa and Noemi, found
work in Milan. When Noemi visited home and saw the wonderful improvements, she
bought the family a new four burner gas stove. With this luxury, it was no
longer necessary to light a wood fire every day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Three brothers had found work as builders’
labourers. With money coming into the household, Maria recalls they had the
best of both worlds – ‘fresh, organic food, spring water and clean air, and
money. My brothers and I were all much better dressed than our older siblings
had been.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> It
was nothing to jump on the back of her brother Ottavio’s motor bike, and ride
to the city or a village dance. ‘These were, for me, the good old days,’ she
writes. ‘Full time farm work was becoming a thing of the past.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">What was to follow would be a very, very
different life experience for this capable, confident teenage farm girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">An older brother Domenico, now discharged from
the army, searched for a job. Drawn to the Australian government’s offer of a
free passage and work, he decided to emigrate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Twenty other young men from the area went too. It was 1952.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">In Newcastle, Domenico was soon employed at BHP,
and able to sponsor his sister Rosa to Australia. While waiting for his new
wife Evelina to travel from Italy, Domenico decided to also sponsor his sisters
Maria and Noemi. They embarked on the ship ‘Aurelia’ on 28 May, 1958. The
girls’ ‘glory boxes’ containing embroidered sheets and everything they would
bring to a possible future marriage were to follow later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Domenico had bought a house, and had taken
three young Italian immigrants as boarders. His wife Evelina had finally arrived,
and Maria and Noemi shared the third bedroom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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classes, where they began to learn the basics of the language. After a couple
of months, Maria found shift work in ELMA,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
an electric lamp factory in Hamilton North. She was not able to continue the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Word spread quickly in BHP about the newly
arrived single girls. Through Domenico, Maria met Nelio Martinelli, who had come
to Australia in 1955 from Lettopalena, a small village in Abbruzzi, Italy. As
so many community members had migrated here from that town, he had the benefit
of a large friendship network in Newcastle. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Nelio and Maria became engaged to marry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Maria no longer felt the confidence she’d
enjoyed at home; she struggled with the language and the uncertainty of her
future in this new country. ‘I knew once I was married, there would have been
no point in going back to Italy,’ she writes, ‘as I could no longer live at
home with my loved ones.’<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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months after they had met. Their wedding reception was at Anzac House in Tudor
Street, Hamilton, once the historic Mechanics’ Institute. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Together they would have four children –
Vincenzo, Anna, Renato and Giovanni. They would take in boarders, and work
‘like machines,’ as homemakers and at various jobs. Their children were educated
at Catholic schools. Houses would be bought and sold until in 1970 they found a
house in Hamilton that had all the comforts Maria dreamed of – especially a hot
water system, and an indoor laundry and toilet. It’s where they still live
today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">As a busy young mother unable to speak much
English, Maria would experience loneliness and isolation - until she eventually
found she could make friends after all. She seized her independence and got a
driving license. In 1968 she began attending an ESL class in the <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/the-italian-centre.html">Italian Centre</a> in Beaumont Street, Hamilton. When she followed this up with a
correspondence course after the birth of her third child, there was no stopping
Maria Martinelli in her determination not just to improve her English, but to
master it. In early 1978, as her children returned to school, Maria enrolled in
the Newcastle Technical College and began an intensive English course. In time,
she graduated with a Certificate 4 in English Language.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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awareness led Maria to later complete many of the free courses offered by
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">In 1984, Maria felt a strong desire to return
to Italy and see her parents. Nelio was willing, so they made plans
immediately. It would be 26 years since Maria had seen her family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Once there, Maria was shocked and saddened to
see that the farms of her childhood had become neglected or totally abandoned.
There was far more change than she had imagined. When Maria’s father Giovanni
became paralyzed on one side as a result of a lightning strike, her parents had
to leave the farm and move to the city to live. Maria found her mother Giacomina
suffering from dementia, unable to recognize Maria as her daughter. Yet the
homecoming, meeting once more family members who had stayed on in Italy was
joyous and memorable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who remained behind – Maria’s 8 siblings with Giovanni and </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Giacomina Ciccanti </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">at their
parents’ </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">50</span><sup style="font-family: arial;">th</sup><span style="font-family: arial;"> w</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">edding anniversary, 1970</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Soon after their return to Australia, Maria received
news of her mother’s death. Now, she understood why she had felt such a
strong urge to go back home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">When Maria reached retirement age, she wrote
and published her life story. ‘It goes without saying,’ she writes modestly,
‘that my life, lived in two different countries, could not possibly have been
very easy.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Reading Maria’s story also demonstrated
convincingly – as if I needed proof – why Australia’s industrious and hard
working immigrants from Italy, Greece, Macedonia and elsewhere have left such
an indelible mark on Hamilton. Those small landholders who have truly practiced
self sufficiency possessed a formidable range of practical skills that have
been passed down the generations. Even if those skills are not used directly in
their new country, they become – in human relations jargon – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">transferable skills</i>, to be adapted and
applied in different settings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">In writing her memoir, Maria wanted her
children and her grandchildren, and those who follow, to understand where she
came from, and how very different her childhood was from theirs. Maria’s lived
life and her writing achievement honours the devotion of her own parents. It is
a gift and an inspiration not just for her immediate family and friends, but
for all of us.</span></div>
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you to Maria Martinelli for sharing her story and photographs. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Unattributed photographs by Ruth Cotton.</span></div></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">‘Nonna’s Story’ is a beautifully written account of Maria's first 19 years growing up on a subsistence farm in rural Italy before and after World War II. It is available in Hamilton from MacLeans Booksellers (on inquiry). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-27880340334203968292015-08-19T10:58:00.004+10:002021-08-11T14:59:48.147+10:00The Fern Street house<span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Every
weekend, from the age of two in 1938 until he was about 24, Brian Archer stayed
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Every
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Brian’s
grandmother was Mary Ann (Polly) Smith (1882-1962) – the first born surviving
daughter of <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/from-ships-mate-to-hamilton-station.html">Harry and Katherine Nesbitt. </a>Harry Nesbitt was one of
Hamilton’s earliest stationmasters (from 1909-1916). His daughter Polly was an
accomplished artist, whose paintings decorated the house. She also played the
organ. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Mary Ann (Polly) Smith with daughters Audrey and Annie, 13
January 1913<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Photograph from the collection of Brian Archer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would catch the Waratah tram from a stop near his home in Georgetown, hop off
at the corner of Tudor and Beaumont Streets in Hamilton, and walk down Beaumont
Street through the railway gates to his grandmother’s place. Occasionally, he’d
catch a bus instead. When he was older, he rode his bike.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">As long
as she had a fuel stove, Polly always had the kettle on the boil in case there
were visitors. She collected branches for the stove from the vacant land beside
Hamilton Station, sometimes walking further afield to Islington Park. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Two of
Polly’s sisters were regular visitors – every Saturday morning. Maggie Zoppi
and Kitty Barker would arrive bearing tea cakes and other delicacies from the
local shop to be enjoyed by everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The
copper on the back verandah was also wood fired. Having a hot bath involved advance
planning - lighting a fire under a large copper and bucketing a rationed amount
of hot water into the bath, which was in a separate room at the back of the
house. Most houses then had a rain water tank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">With the
coming of gas, the fuel stove was no longer needed but remained in place in the
Fern Street house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">‘We had
to feed the gas meter under the stairs with coins to keep the gas stove going,’
says Brian. ‘The gas man would come and read the meter, count the coins in the
box and calculate how much the gas used was worth. He would give a refund if
the cost of the gas used was less than the money in the box.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Coal was
a different story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">It was
delivered to homes from Hunt’s coal yard, at 88 Beaumont Street – later to
become <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/deitz-hardware-hamilton-fixture.html">Deitz Hardware.</a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">A side verandah of the Fern Street house had a coal room attached. Brian
helped carry coal in a bucket from the coal room to the fireplace in the
dining/lounge room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Home deliveries
were part of life, when fewer households had their own transport. Daily
essentials were fresh bread from a local baker, and milk in the early hours of
the morning. Both were delivered by horse and cart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">‘The
milkman would run down the side in his sandshoes and grab the billy can which
had been left on the steps; it would rattle as he grabbed it and took it back
to his cart to fill it up. He then ran back again to place it back on the
steps. Of course there had to be money left with the billy,’ Brian says. ‘And
the postman called twice a day, on his pushbike.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The Ice
Man would call every two or three days to put a new block of ice in the top of
the ice chest, when refrigerators were not even thought of. The Prop Man would
visit from time to time in case a replacement prop was needed for the wire
clothes line strung across the back yard. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The
Sunday papers were delivered by a boy with a billy cart, as was the evening
paper, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Newcastle Sun</i>. But the
weekday morning paper, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newcastle
Morning Herald</i>, was an early morning chore for the kids, who were sent to
the newsagent even on freezing winter mornings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Under
cover of morning darkness, the sanitation worker (or ‘dunny man’) trundled his
cart along the back lanes, changing the pans in the outside lavatories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">‘All of
this would have been part of the heritage of similar homes in Hamilton and
Islington,’ observes Brian. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Staying
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the young Brian, whose relationship with his grandmother was a very special
one. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">He had a choice of the movie matinee at the Regent
Theatre, Islington or the </span><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/the-roxy-theatre.html" style="font-family: arial;">Roxy Theatre</a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> in Hamilton – both within easy walking
distance of the Fern Street house.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Brian
Archer with his guitar, c.1950s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Photograph from the collection of Brian Archer</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Brian trained as a Radio, TV and Electronics technician at nearby </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Tighes Hill Technical College<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The Fern
Street house is no more, replaced by a large commercial building. Trams, and
coal fires in our lounge rooms are things of the past. We don’t have to forage
in search of wood for our wood stoves or coppers - we just turn on the hot
water tap. How we wish there were more home deliveries! Yet this glimpse into
family life close to Beaumont Street and the rail line, before cars became
ubiquitous, is a reminder that while everyday domestic life was tougher, it was
also simpler. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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every piece of fruit in the shop. If anyone touched anything, he could tell!’</span></i>
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Norman (Gaetano) Santamaria ran Mac’s Fruit Shop at 138 Beaumont Street,
Hamilton, spanning the years of World War II, from 1939 to 1946. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I wondered how someone from the
Aeolian islands in Italy’s far south, with the name Santamaria, happened to call
his shop by the very English-sounding ‘Mac’s.’<span><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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early 1940s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">The door
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Norman met and married Giselda Cardenzana
in Sydney; both had emigrated from Italy. Giselda was from the north, while
Norman came from the south – he was born in Rinella on the Aeolian island of
Salina. The couple moved to Newcastle, and ran what was then the Pacific Hotel,
in Scott Street, Newcastle.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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in Hamilton, where he bought Mac’s Fruit Shop as a going concern. The name
Mac’s was inherited from his predecessor – James McVie, who also had a
fruit shop in Hunter Street, Newcastle.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">James and Lobelia McVie established their Hamilton shop </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">in the mid 1930s, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">having moved from Katoomba to make </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">a fresh start after the Depression </span></div>
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child, was just 8 years old when the family took up residence in the spacious three bedroom flat above the shop at 138 Beaumont Street. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘We all worked in the fruit shop,’
says Julie. ‘Dad was a typical Italian father – no after school play for me. I
had to sweep the floor, bag up the potatoes, and soon learned to serve behind
the counter.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unusual to see Julie atop the delivery truck, helping unload the boxes of
fruit. Another of her tasks was to string up the pineapples for the window
display.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shopping crowds surged along Beaumont Street. Sitting on the upstairs verandah,
Julie and her school friends would compete with each other tossing peas into
the trumpets of passing band members. ‘We loved running across the roofs, too,’
says Julie. ‘We’d go right over to Canning’s Newsagent at the back, in Tudor
Street.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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arrangement of the produce. Julie doubts he would cope with today’s self
service approach, and the way customers touch and handle the fruit to test its
ripeness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Locally renowned for his presentation
skills, Norman was invited to create this display for the NSW Fruit Shopkeepers
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family’s next enterprise was what was then the Exchange Hotel, in Hunter
Street. During that time, 18-year old Julie made her debut.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A block of land in Hamilton was
Julie’s father’s 21<sup>st</sup> birthday gift to her. She married Fred Lomax, and
they built a house on the block. Losing her husband suddenly in his early
forties, Julie worked at everything from cleaning office furniture to compering
fashion parades and advertising, and raised their two children. It would not have
been an easy life for the young mother. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">After the 1989 Newcastle earthquake,
Julie happened to notice a sign near the Beaumont Street shop that had once
been their family business. Information was being sought about the original
structure and design of the building so it could be rebuilt as it had been
before the earthquake. Julie responded, and as a result, met Peter Morris.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Peter had owned Harvest Health Foods at 138 Beaumont Street in the 1960s, and his
parents had made the upstairs flat their home. Julie’s childhood memories of
growing up ‘above the shop’ were put to good use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When Norman retired, he and Giselda
moved to Hawks Nest, where he bought a mobile fruit van. After a couple of
years, he sold the business. ‘He couldn’t stand the kids messing with his
fruit!’ Julie tells me. Norman went on to run a taxi service. No fruit to worry
about there! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">These well preserved family
photographs of Mac’s Fruit Shop are around 75 years old. There is no missing
the pride of this perfectionist fruiterer, and his family, as they pose in
front of racks of skillfully arranged fruit. We can only imagine the glowing colours
- golds, reds, greens, and yellows – and how painstakingly Norman must have
unpacked and restacked so not a piece was bruised. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">He wanted the best for
his customers – and if that meant they had to curb their impulse to touch,
and feel – it was so everyone </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">could experience</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> perfection.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Inside
Mac’s Fruit Shop – (L-R) a shop assistant, Giselda Santamaria, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Julie
Santamaria, early 1940s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">‘We all worked there’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you to Julie Lomax for sharing
photographs and information. Julie passed away </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">on 8 February, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Julie
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Santamaria, 2015</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>'Beautiful in every way'</i></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph by Ruth Cotton</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">A
story on the Pacific Hotel and information provided by Julie Lomax featured in
the Newcastle Herald on April 17, 2015, written by Mike Scanlon, see
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3016466/memories-of-the-pacific/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-47913976761755939022015-07-28T18:32:00.011+10:002021-08-08T15:17:37.069+10:00Pina Deli - a community of food lovers<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Pina Deli has been serving the cosmopolitan
community of Hamilton and beyond for 54 years. There have been eight different owners
of the business in that time, including two sets of sisters. The first five owners
were from the tightly knit Lettesi community, people who migrated in large
numbers from the war-devastated village of Lettopalena.<span><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Pina Deli connects even more than an immigrant
community wanting to make better lives for themselves and their families. It connects
a community of food lovers – people who relish the diverse tastes and textures
of an international cuisine; people who recognize that respect is being shown
when prosciutto is cut and wrapped with tender care; people who carry this food
to their own kitchens to enliven age-old traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Pina
and Domenico Buresti 1961-1969<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Pina (Giuseppina) Cavicchia will always
remember the vow she made to herself when she turned to look back at the
remains of her home town of Lettopalena, as the bus climbed around treacherous
hair pin bends in the mountain road.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">With her mother and younger sister, Pina was leaving
their bombed out village in the Abbruzzi region of Italy to board a ship in
Naples bound for Australia. An older sister was remaining in Lettopalena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It was 1955. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Goodbye
Poverty,’ 14 year old Pina said to herself. ‘I am going to work so hard I will
never want for anything.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">And so she did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Rare
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above a deep ravine, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">prior to its destruction in 1943<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Houses
up to five storeys high make the best use of the building land available<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Photograph
from paper by Dr Judith Galvin, courtesy of Cultural Collections, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">University of
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Pina remembers the makeshift home her family had
made in unused stone stables outside Lettapalena. The village had been
destroyed in November 1943 after two months of German occupation of the area. Soldiers
drove the people out family by family; then blew up each house.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
As a 4 year old, Pina remembers her own father’s return from the war,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and later, sitting around the fireplace in the stables with her family and
neighbours, listening while they relived their harrowing experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I always left my shoes on the chair near the
door,’ she tells me, ‘in case the enemy came.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The young Pina loved school. In the afternoons,
she would have her head in a book as she kept an eye on five goats foraging for
fresh pasture on land her family owned some distance from home. It was a hard,
subsistence life; everything came from the land and everyone in the family had
to help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Pina’s father had migrated 5 years earlier,
establishing himself with a job in the coke ovens of the BHP in Newcastle, New
South Wales, Australia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Once in Newcastle, Pina completed her final
year of school, leaving at the age of 15. It must have been a difficult time to
change countries, I suggest – a teenager thrust into a new school, with no
English. How did she learn?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Pina thinks for a moment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘There were special English language classes,’
she says. ‘I learned about cricket from our teacher! But I think it was the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sheer wanting.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Pina’s first job was in a pickle factory in
Fern Street, Islington. From there she worked behind the counter in ‘the German
deli.’ The owners did not speak Italian, although many Italians came into the Hamilton
shop. When they could not find what they were looking for, the young Pina quietly
noted a business opportunity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In an employment environment rich with jobs,
Pina worked in the Bond’s clothing factory, a fish and chip shop and Theo’s
Milk Bar in Hunter Street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In May 1961, Pina married Dominico Buresti.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Dominico’s home was in the Marche region of
Italy. When the 16 year old boy decided he wanted to go to Australia, he visited
the Australian High Commission in Genoa. There, he was told to come back when
he was 17. Before the two months were up, he received a reminder call from a
keen official, and was soon on his way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It was 1951. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">At the Bonegilla Migrant Camp near Albury-Wodonga,
10,000 immigrants waited anxiously for promised work that failed to
materialise. After some tough short term jobs in Queensland, Domenico and a
couple of friends took a train to Newcastle, where he found a job in the blast
furnace at the BHP steelworks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Dominico rented a room in a house owned by a
Polish family, saved hard, and was soon able to buy a four bedroom house in
Islington. He, too, became a landlord. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Intending to return to Italy, Domenico’s plans
changed when he met Pina at a friend’s wedding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Domenico and Pina Buresti on their wedding day
in May, 1961<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From the Buresti family collection, courtesy La
Nefa</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Later
that same year, Mr Findlay, a real estate agent Pina had known through her job
at the fish and chip shop, contacted her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘I have
a little shop that might suit you,’ he told her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">On 21
September 1961, Domenico and Pina opened Pina’s Delicatessen at 148 Beaumont
Street, near the Wesley Church in Hamilton. The space had been a sandwich bar,
and Mr Findlay had seen its potential as a delicatessen immediately. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Then
began long days for Pina, working from 7 am to 10 pm, with Domenico doing home
deliveries after work at the BHP. ‘Many people didn’t have cars in those days,’
explained Pina. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Pina’s
Delicatessen quickly became popular - not just with the local Italians, but
with the whole international community in Hamilton and beyond. Although she was
just 20, Pina’s varied work experience and determination to succeed helped her
master the business. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Eight
years later, in 1969, Pina and Domenico were expecting their first child. The
long hours would no longer suit a young mother. It was time for change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">When
Pina looked for someone to take on the deli, she turned to ‘family’. Pina’s
Delicatessen was passed to her younger sister Gia and husband Franco Roncolato
in 1969.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">In later
years, Pina would contribute substantially to her community. She taught
remedial reading as a volunteer to students at Newcastle High, and initiated
Italian classes for children at St Joseph’s Primary School, The Junction. In
1983, she worked with the Ethnic Communities Council to win a $50,496
government grant <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to set up a
Multicultural Neighbourhood Centre. The Centre was to focus on meeting the
needs of migrant women, especially those for whom English was their second
language. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">A notice placed in the <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/the-italian-centre.html">Italian Centre's</a> publication 'Centero Italiano' in </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">September, 1966</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">by Pina's Delicatessen, from the Buresti family collection</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Giacinta Roncolato 1969 - 1975<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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younger sister Gia (Giacinta) had migrated to Australia in 1955 from
Lettopalena with Pina and their mother. By now the sisters also had a younger brother,
who had been born in Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">In the
afternoon when school was over for the day, Gia hurried to Pina’s Delicatessan
to give Pina some help. For Gia, it was ideal work experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Gia’s
first full time job after leaving school was in the office at Winn’s department
store in Newcastle. Then Gia married Franco Roncolato, who had come to
Australia at the age of 25, from the town of Cologna Veneta, in the Verona
region of Italy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">When the
young couple decided to take on Pina’s Delicatessen, Franco left his job in the
Bradford Cotton Mill at Kotara. Together Frank and Gia ran the deli for almost
7 years, continuing to operate the Bank of NSW agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Delicatessen at its original location, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">148 Beaumont Street, Hamilton, c.1970 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of those years:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Even
though it was hard work, we enjoyed the deli because we met some really nice
people. Our customers were of different nationalities such as Italian, Greek,
Macedonian, Yugoslavian, and also Australian. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘We sold
a great range of sliced meats and cheese, pasta which was all packed by hand –
not pre packed like it is today – and an extensive grocery line. Arnott’s
biscuits came in those big tins that so many people remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘We also
sold the Italian Christmas cake Panettone, and Colomba the Easter cake,
imported from Italy. A small range of perfume was also imported.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">After
selling Pina’s Delicatessen to Elsa Terenzini, Gia and Franco went on to another
retail venture, very different from the first - an exclusive menswear shop in
the Picardi Centre at 54 Beaumont Street, Hamilton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Elsa
Terenzini continued the Lettopalena connection, operating Pina’s Delicatessen
from 1975 until 1978. She migrated to Australia in 1957 at the age of 30,
marrying Remo Terenzini, also from Lettopalena. Sadly, Elsa passed away in
June, 2015. </span><br />
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do well, undertaking a range of different jobs before buying the deli. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Elsa ran
the business herself, with two or three different women helping in the shop. Franca
left school to work in Pina’s Delicatessen with her mother. ‘It was a small
shop, and I don’t remember her making many changes,’ Franca told me, ‘but she
enjoyed having a business.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Terenzini sold Pina’s Delicatessen, it would become the domain of two sisters -
from Lettopalena. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Teresa Rossetti
(née Martinelli) came to Australia at the age of 22 in 1960 with her father and
brother. Her fiancé Renato Rossetti, mother, sister Angela and another brother
joined her the following year. Teresa worked in various jobs, including Oldhams,
a meat processing factory, before taking on Pina’s Delicatessen with Angela.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Angela Thodas
(née Martinelli) was just 6 years old when her family migrated to Australia.
Growing up in Mayfield, she worked as a secretary at the Royal Newcastle
Hospital. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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daughter Daniela Rossetti writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘When
Pina’s Delicatessen came up for sale, Teresa and Angela were both excited about
the opportunity to go into partnership together. Running their own business was
exciting and hard work. During that time they ensured they had the freshest
deli meats. Nothing was frozen, and each week deli meats not sold were always
thrown out. They both enjoyed the change to retail, a very different role to
their previous work. One of the highlights of working there were the loyal
customers from both the Italian and Australian communities that they got to
know over the three years.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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time, Teresa, who was much older than Angela, had three school age children,
the youngest being six. The sisters worked long hours and when Angela decided
to start a family, they made the decision to sell. Angela stayed on to help
with the handover to the next owners, and Teresa would return much later to
work for a couple of years with Robert Perisic. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">In a
strengthening of the community ties that bind the Lettisi people from
Lettopalena, Teresa Rossetti is godmother to Gia Roncolato.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">The
fifth owners of Pina Deli were Pina and Tony D’Accione, both from Lettopalena. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Pina (Giuseppina)
Di Claudio emigrated in 1958 at the age of 16 with her mother Maria and
brother, Amedeo. Tony migrated alone at the age of 18, joining his brother and
sister in Newcastle. Travelling by plane in 1956, he remembers the language and
culture shock he felt as he found himself arriving in his new country so quickly.
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not easy for Tony to find a job initially. He worked for a season cane cutting
in Proserpine, sharing a tin shed with another worker in the stifling heat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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employment as a cleaner, rising in time to catch the 4.20 am bus to work,
dependent on her mother to help with the three children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this for 13 years,’ she tells me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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always wanted to ‘do something himself’ and having his own business seemed an
attractive idea. When Pina’s Delicatessen came up for sale in 1980<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,</b> Tony was very keen to purchase. Even
though Pina was uncertain, they took the plunge. The deli would once more have someone
named ‘Pina’ behind the counter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thodas, one of the previous owners and also Tony’s god daughter, kept working
in the shop until Tony and Pina learned how everything was done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the outside, it looks easy,’ Tony says. ‘But a deli is really hard, heavy work.
We had all the cured meats hanging in the shop, and in summer had to take them
down each evening and store them in the cool room.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hours were long, too – they worked five days a week plus Saturdays until 1 pm,
with time spent cleaning the machines and the freezer after hours every day.
‘There’s a lot of cleaning up,’ says Tony. ‘I remember a Health Department
Inspector telling me once, “If everyone was like you, I wouldn’t have a job!”’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was strong among the four delicatessens in Hamilton, and Tony knew they had to
expand into larger, more modern premises. Plans to incorporate the space next
door ran into difficulties, and they looked further afield. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">In June 1986,
Pina and Tony moved the deli to newly built premises at 48 Lindsay Street, on
the edge of the Hamilton Piazza. They would now be closer to the central part
of Beaumont Street. Still, everything had to be done from scratch – including a
new fit out, to meet the more stringent food authority regulations. It may have
been at this point that Pina’s Delicatessen became Pina Deli.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thursday 29 December 1989, Hamilton was hit by an earthquake measuring 5.6 on
the Richter scale. Pina Deli lost large amounts of stock, but staff managed to
get the shop operating again within just three days. The new building had stood
up to the test well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Pina, running the small business was ‘a big challenge.’ By the time they
were ready to sell, they had firmly consolidated the reputation of Pina Deli
for quality and service. Tony’s outgoing personality and Pina’s generous
hospitality must have been a draw card for customers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were free now to travel, visiting relations not seen for decades, as far away
as Argentina and Germany. Pina’s mother, too, needed her daughter’s care and attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert Perisic took over Pina Deli, he was the only man in the team. And he was
not from Lettopalena!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Robert’s
venture into the food industry began when his first career as an accountant
with an oil company ended and he found himself facing redundancy. He was
investigating various small business options, when Pina Deli came up for sale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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job at Tighes Hill, Robert had been in the habit of slipping over to Hamilton
to buy a liverwurst roll for lunch at the delicatessen. The son of a Serbian
refugee father and a Macedonian mother, he had a taste for the international
foods sold at the deli.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and his wife Suzi, then a bank employee, inspected the deli and liked what they
saw. They bought it. At the time, they had one young son Michael and another,
Adrian, would be born during their time at Pina Deli.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">48 Lindsay Street, Hamilton</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Loyal
staff stayed on under the new management – Adriana Palmieri, Anna Capotosto, Maria
Profili and even former owner Pina D’Accione. Suzi Perisic helped out after she
finished work at the bank, and she and Robert alternated on the Saturday
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Suzi and Robert Perisic, Pina Deli, 1990s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">‘<i>We had all the smoked meats hanging
in the shop, just like Tony D’Accione did’</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘It was
like a family,’ says Robert, ‘and such fun. Always jokes, and laughter. I
learned some Italian from the staff – especially how to curse! ‘<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">I
wondered what changes, if any, Robert made at Pina Deli?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘It’s a
long time ago,’ says Robert, ‘and hard to remember. We had all the smoked meats
hanging in the shop, just like Tony A’ccione did, possibly even more.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cooking shows by people like Antonio Carluccio and Jamie Oliver were becoming
popular, and Robert noticed that customers would come in asking for a new
ingredient, or a piece of equipment that had been featured. He quickly learned
to anticipate these trends, and order in those items. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Pina
Deli began making its own fresh pasta, and also its own sausages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Our
meats were sliced on the spot, and wrapped in paper, just like today,’ says
Robert. ‘The slices are laid out separately, not all squashed together in a
lump like the supermarkets. Customers appreciate that care and product
knowledge. And service is always with a smile.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Robert
does remember a man who used to walk past the deli every morning, and pop his
head in the door to inhale the smells - the coffee being ground, the fresh
Italian bread and the smoked meats. ‘He never bought a thing!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Deli supplied restaurants and Robert always tried to be responsive to their
needs, as well as to his customers. He would travel to Sydney every month to
check out different suppliers for new products, but mostly, customers liked to
see the same familiar faces behind the counter, and buy products they were
familiar with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Robert
opened Liebchen’s Restaurant around the corner at 79 Beaumont Street, the site
of the present day Eurobar. Serving modern Australian cuisine with a cultural
twist, some dishes from this popular restaurant were packaged and retailed
through the deli. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert, the time to sell Pina Deli came when he wanted to focus on the other
businesses he had established. There was someone right there on the staff,
ready to accept the challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Maria
Profili emigrated from Puglia, Italy to Germany at the age of twelve. She
married there, moving to Australia with her boilermaker husband Paul Profili in
1977. With no family in Newcastle to provide support, Maria was a homemaker,
caring for her two sons, Andrew and Patrick. Later, she started painting,
becoming involved in schools as a volunteer art teacher. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Maria had
had some jobs involving food preparation, and knew of Pina Deli. Keen for a job
there, she approached Robert Perisic, but there was no opening available. Two
years later, Robert contacted Maria with a 2 day a week job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Four
years later, in 2001, Robert was ready to sell. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Maria’s
son Andrew, a chef, had been trying to persuade Maria to join him in a café
venture. They decided, instead, to buy Pina Deli. At the last minute, Andrew decided
on a different direction, opening an Italian restaurant/coffee lounge Amici
close by. Maria was on her own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Robert
and the staff, especially Adriana Palmieri, helped Maria become established.
Getting to know her suppliers, and dealing with them, was her first challenge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">When she
made home cooked dishes like soups or lentils for sale, they flew off the
counter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pina Deli continued to offer
fresh and imported meats, cheeses, pastas, sauces and a diverse range of
coffee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘I love
this shop,’ Maria says. ‘When you walk in, it has such a good feel. Customers
and staff are like family – we get to know what our customers like. They love
the personal touch. We are all part of a community of food lovers.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Front row, from left: Pina D’Accione, Patrick
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years, Maria was becoming weary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is no rest, no down time,’ she explains. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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delis were challenging small shops like Pina Deli on price, even though they
could never better the quality and personal attention to detail bestowed by the
small shop. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">After
advertising for sale without result, she was ready to close the doors. Then,
after one last advertisement, Deborah Brazel, a regular customer, stepped
forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Maria and
her husband continue their creative work. Maria’s paintings - beautiful still
life and landscapes – hang on the walls of homes in Newcastle. Paul creates wrought
iron structures. And still today, on the walls of Pina Deli, is a poster of the dry stone trulli houses with their distinctive cone shaped roofs, a reminder of Maria's Puglia origins. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Deborah
née Martinini was born in Rome, during her parents’ extended sojourn back to
Italy to meet her father’s family. Her mother was from Trieste, and her immigrant
parents had met and married in Newcastle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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leaving school, Deborah worked for various companies, merchandising in
supermarkets, ensuring their products were displayed in store.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">With her
husband Darren Brazel, Deborah always kept a look out for an appealing business
opportunity. Their experience running a corner shop in Mount Hutton was useful
when Pina Deli came up for sale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘I was a
customer of Pina Deli,’ says Deborah. ‘It is such an icon. I thought it would
be a shame if it didn’t continue.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When Deborah took over the shop, she was glad
to have continuity of staff, who helped her learn on the job. Deborah laughs
when she remembers the challenge of learning to slice meats – anchoring the
piece with her right hand, and catching the slices with her left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Previous owner Maria Profili wanted to do two days
a week for a time, and Anna Capotosto would always help out when needed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Adriana Palmieri stayed with us until a couple
of years ago – she was such a great asset,’ explains Deborah. ‘Then Carla
Brinkworth, who has been a friend of mine since we were just eight years old,
joined us.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">These days, the core staff are Deborah, Carla
and Simone, who is Deborah’s student daughter. Deborah’s son Ryan also worked
for a considerable time at Pina Deli. ‘That experience helped Ryan decide what
he really wanted to do – train as a chef,’ says Deborah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">While Deborah did not set out to make changes
for the sake of it, she did what she describes as ‘a general re-vamp.’ Most
importantly, she introduced a smart new colour scheme – the red, white and
green of the Italian flag for signage, name badges and aprons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Some new lines have been introduced, along with
a coffee machine for customers who want a one stop shop. In winter Pina Deli offers
home made soups made by Carla, and if you have ever wondered where those
delicious pasta sauces come from, they are made by Deborah’s father, Ezio
Martinini.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Like the other owners, Deborah stresses the ‘family
feel’ of Pina Deli. ‘People feel welcomed when they walk in,’ she says. ‘ Staff
ask about family members when we know of them. There is a little girl who likes
to bring us flowers. That continuity is so important.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 2011, Pina Deli celebrated its 50<sup>th</sup>
anniversary, with special offers and promotions throughout the year. In 2014,
they even retailed copies of my book, ‘Hidden Hamilton.’</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In September 2015, and after 55 years as Pina Deli, this
little icon became Delikacies. The business is now owned by three women: Helen
Morgan, Nicole Eddington and Lori White. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">There are smart red café chairs and tables on the pavement,
and an inside nook so that customers can grab a coffee to go with a freshly
made sandwich or cake. A bright front window display entices customers in, as
does a new entrance from the plaza at the back. As well as old favourites there
are baskets of fresh produce and cheery sacks of beans, nuts and pulses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Co-owner Helen is introducing specialities from her Croation
heritage, sausages like chevapi and csabai. A huge blackboard explains
everything. High on the eastern wall the faces of some of the former owners
watch what’s happening as the deli embarks on its new life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tradition of offering customers from Hamilton and beyond unique products
and personal service. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We
owe so much to the families who embarked on the adventure of running Pina Deli,
worked unrelentingly for at least six days every week and met the challenges of
small business head-on. We owe gratitude to them all for bringing that sense of
family, of community, and their love of good food, to Hamilton. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and photographs to this story: Pina and Dominic Buresti, Gia Roncolato, Franca
Clark, Teresa and Daniela Rossetti, Pina and Tony D’Accione, Robert Perisic,
Maria Profili, Deborah Brazel and Helen Morgan. Thank you also to Carla Brinkworth and Elisa
Sandrone for helping me find the past owners of Pina Deli. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18.4px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Related post</b> about the Lettesi community and its connections with Hamilton:</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18.4px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/a-community-finds-its-place-lettesi.html" style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/a-community-finds-its-place-lettesi.html</a></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCx1O_CIVdvPzeF6nvyhoAuu2KTP7OZ88WlxrFW7EYN24rW7Ej38IyrqO6NIgov7609Ka3tMXqmmhKsnFRrDeeumZHlekrE3Xm_018sk94UTyDARHcPkWvQrEBSUBWHhrq4Y72Ny-Hkw/s2048/P+Pina+Deli.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCx1O_CIVdvPzeF6nvyhoAuu2KTP7OZ88WlxrFW7EYN24rW7Ej38IyrqO6NIgov7609Ka3tMXqmmhKsnFRrDeeumZHlekrE3Xm_018sk94UTyDARHcPkWvQrEBSUBWHhrq4Y72Ny-Hkw/s320/P+Pina+Deli.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><br /></div></span></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-35178645660498630602015-07-09T14:47:00.013+10:002021-08-11T14:51:06.384+10:00Northern Star Hotel<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘This must be the best position in
Hamilton,’ Des Ramplin observed to his wife Marie, as they were discussing the
prospect of buying the 110 year old Northern Star Hotel, in Hamilton.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It was 1986; interest rates were
affordable and the Ramplins were ready to take on another challenge.<span><a name='more'></a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Marie was born nearby in Cleary
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I never dreamed I’d come back one
day as the owner of a hotel,’ she tells me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 2016, the Ramplin family will
have owned and operated the Northern Star Hotel for 30 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Father
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Richard Nickolls<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
was the first licensee, operating the Northern Star Hotel at 112 Beaumont Street, Hamilton from
1877.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
This date is important, because it places the Northern Star Hotel as the
earliest Hamilton hotel still in existence on the same site, and with the same
name. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1882, the Northern Star Hotel was
put up for sale but withdrawn from auction as the reserve price of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">£</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">600 was not reached.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">We learn something of what the earliest
building on the site was like, from a later auction advertisement, in 1884. The
Northern Star Hotel is described as:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘one of the best brick, two storey
buildings in Hamilton, with stone foundation, cemented fronts, a spacious and
airy balcony, and nearly new, containing 8 beautiful and well finished rooms.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The hotel had a bar, underground
cellar, detached brick kitchen, a three stall stable, plenty of water, and a 4
room weatherboard cottage at the back with a detached kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A couple of decades later, in 1912, the
hotel underwent what was probably its first major renovation. <o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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renovation plans for the Northern Star Hotel, displayed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> in the hotel bistro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Five bedrooms were added, along with
a new bar, dining room and a cast iron balcony on the upper floor. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1915, Charles Weiss lodged an
application for his Northern Star Hotel license to be transferred to Harold J B
Robinson.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title="">[7]</a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Phone:
Hamilton 21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1919 the hotel received a glowing
write up in The Catholic Press:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Harold J B Robinson is the
proprietor of the Northern Star Hotel, and so it is run on the best possible
lines. Everyone in and out of Hamilton knows this hotel, because it has
acquired fame, being well kept. The accommodation is excellent and the cuisine
perfect, for everything is of the best quality.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In such a central position, and with
a balcony offering a commanding vantage point, the Northern Star became a
popular spot for speakers to address the people of Hamilton. In 1916 a
gathering heard a debate on whether hotel closing time should be extended from
6pm to 9pm; in 1917, the Mayor of Hamilton presided over a recruiting rally
addressed by Trooper Squires and Sergeant Huntley. Aspiring politicians and
later, local Councillors would make their case for election from the balcony.
The widening of Tudor Street was discussed in 1922.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The following year, in 1923, further
renovations were undertaken. The hotel acquired two new bathrooms, a hot water
system, a new ‘vermin proof, kitchen,’ and a lounge with an open fireplace.
Notably, the Northern Star became the only hotel in the district where guests could
park their cars.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
This had been made possible when, in 1922, a cottage in James Street next to
the hotel was purchased and demolished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Star Hotel, Hamilton, 1924<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Up until the 1930s, hotels were
important community venues for many different activities which brought people
together. Football, trotting and other clubs held their meetings at the
Northern Star, as did unions. Formal events ranged from an installation ceremony
of the Star in the East Lodge of the Freemasons, to auctions and inquests. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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criminal activity – reports of convictions for theft, offensive behaviour,
brawls, and unruly behavior in and around Hamilton hotels often appeared in the
local press. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Star Hotel, Hamilton, 1968<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1969 the Newcastle Sun carried
the headline, LANDMARK GOING. It reported plans for the complete modernization
of ‘one of the best known buildings in Hamilton,’ involving ‘the virtual
demolition of the existing building.’ Its distinctive verandah with cast iron
railings would also be demolished, replaced with a modern awning over the
footpath. Its replacement would be ‘one of the most modern hotels in Newcastle.’
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But first things first – a temporary bar was established, so that despite the
building works, the hotel could keep trading and look after its regulars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Ramplins<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">While Des Ramplin had begun work as
a fitter and turner, worked on building construction sites and in power
stations, and even owned a taxi, he and Marie were not novice publicans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Their first experience in hotels was
as a husband-and-wife manager of the Plough Inn Hotel at Buladehlah. The couple
went on to buy the Royal Hotel in Taree as members of a syndicate, and later, the
Fire Station Tavern at Wallsend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Marie was no stranger to work. She’d
begun in Woolworths variety store in Newcastle, eventually clocking up nearly
15 years there. Marie learned flexibility, multi tasking and the ability to
turn her hand to anything as she juggled work and their children, Michelle and
John. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Northern Star Hotel came up in 1986, Marie was there to support her husband.
‘It’s what we did,’ she says. ‘I used to tell Des that if we didn’t make it, we
could just start again.’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The
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John ‘stacking up’ – after school and weekends. By the time he was 15 or 16, John
was behind the bar – something that could not happen today. Michelle too served
when she was home from Sydney, where she was working.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Des
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Along with other tasks, Marie attended
to the accommodation – 12 rooms upstairs, a mix of double, single and family
rooms with bathrooms that are still popular today.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Marie
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1987, the career of the renowned boxing
trainer Tom Maguire was commemorated when a plaque was installed on the
southern wall of the Northern Star Hotel. Maguire had trained hundreds of
boxers, including Dave Sands LINK and had often enjoyed a quiet beer in the
hotel. Between 1920 and 1957, Maguire trained 22 Australian champions, one
Australasian champion and one British Empire champion at his gym in Beaumont
Street, where another plaque was installed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Cocktails were a popular offering at
the Northern Star in the late 1990s. John taught himself the cocktail trade, and
the hotel became ‘one of the best cocktail bars in town’. A relaxed, romantic
atmosphere was created, with candles everywhere. Sometimes there were fun themed
events like Austin Powers nights. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Once, when a customer’s hair caught
fire from a candle, John patted it out with his hand, and then found himself
wondering why it was throbbing so much. He ended up in the hospital Emergency Department.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1996, Michelle Ramplin returned
to Newcastle. Completing her Master’s degree in hospitality, she quickly became
an essential member of the family team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A place to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In the 1990s, ‘Tinker’s Curse’ was a
popular band playing Irish music around Newcastle. When it first appeared at
the Northern Star Hotel before an enthusiastic crowd in 1996, Shawn Sherlock, a
band member who is now a well known brewer, suggested to John that the hotel ‘do
something’ for St Patrick’s Day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Ramplin family got behind the
idea for the first St Patrick’s day to become a big event at their hotel. It
was 1998. Marie remembers decorating the bars with shamrocks they’d made
themselves and strung on fishing line. Staff and customers were encouraged to
dress up. <o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
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Guinness, Ireland’s best-selling alcoholic drink. With the party atmosphere,
Tinker’s Curse on the band stand, and Irish dancers, and there was no going
back from that first event. ‘The place was going nuts’, says John. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was the genesis of the Irish theme that the Northern Star Hotel uses to such
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when there was a fire in the cellar, because a refrigeration unit exploded. It
was a frightening experience. ‘We put the fire out, and went on trading,’ John
says. The customers knew nothing of the drama unfolding below. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It was time for the Ramplins to
begin a phased series of renovations of the hotel that hadn’t seen any changes
since its major redevelopment in 1969. Respected hotel architect Bruce Boland
was engaged to work with the family to recreate the hotel with the look and
feel of a traditional Irish pub. First, in June 1998 was the kitchen and
restaurant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and renamed. It became Finn McCools, after the legendary Irish hero who was
protector of Ireland, and Chief of The Fianna, the elite bodyguard to the High
Kings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Lounge was renovated in 2003.</span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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Australian music, and set out to support young, emerging bands. Michelle
Ramplin shows me a book that meticulously documents hundreds of bands that once
played at the hotel, including now-familiar names like The Whitlams, the John
Butler Trio, Eskimo Jo, Iota and Missy Higgins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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past at the Northern Star Hotel. These days, because of concerns about noise affecting
the neighbours, single musicians are dispersed throughout, wherever the
customers are seated – no one is far away from music on Friday and Saturday
nights. The hotel closes at 11 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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places open late at night. In suburbs like Hamilton, where there is no longer a
local police station, it is not unusual for people escaping violent situations
to come in looking for help. Staff can, over time, be exposed to stressful and
even traumatic situations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘A business is so much more than
bricks and mortar,’ Michelle says. ‘The family really acknowledges the
contribution of so many staff over our 30 years here. They foster the family
atmosphere of the place – sometimes former staff drop in and say they worked
here twenty years ago.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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face its own tragic loss. Des was diagnosed with mesothelioma, and died within
a year, in 2006. It was a bitter legacy of his years in construction and the
power industries. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet the hotel goes on, adapting to each
new challenge. Greater responsibility has fallen on John and Michelle’s
shoulders. The operating environment for hotels has become even more complex as
a result of changes to the Liquor Licensing laws in NSW.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘We kept trading through the Pasha
Bulker storm,’<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
says John, ‘and the 1989 earthquake. Even the recent super storm!’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Miraculously, the Northern Star
Hotel was one of the very few businesses on the western side of Beaumont Street
that did not lose power for several days during the storm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Call it the luck of the Irish,’
laughs John.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">The
Northern Star Hotel, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph
by Craig Smith</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you to Marie, John and
Michelle Ramplin for sharing information and photographs for this story, and to
Craig Smith for his photography. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Unattributed photos are by Ruth Cotton.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1GakSQ0bovRf6kDobE4OH1E3uEeReZs3659JG_1xy48O0n_c9qRM0WTkst2XoXe9IDgns3FfWEHZjUjMFjwX5zA_R1DDsnvVZthj1N84TwMCBWfsUr9I-8fU20TMsUnBK9w8KXUbdVvc/s2048/P+Nthn+Star+Hotel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1GakSQ0bovRf6kDobE4OH1E3uEeReZs3659JG_1xy48O0n_c9qRM0WTkst2XoXe9IDgns3FfWEHZjUjMFjwX5zA_R1DDsnvVZthj1N84TwMCBWfsUr9I-8fU20TMsUnBK9w8KXUbdVvc/s320/P+Nthn+Star+Hotel.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Sometimes spelt Nicholls</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Peter Murray, 2006, From Borehole to Hamilton
Jubilee 1848-1921, Peter Murray, Newcastle, p. 148; also The Newcastle and
Hunter District Historical Society, Vol. VI Part XII, September 1952, Hamilton
Part II by W J Goold, p. 185<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Bennett’s Hotel in Denison Street is on the site of Thomas
Tudor’s Agricultural Hotel, and holds a license that can be traced back to
1865. Other contenders for the earliest hotel still in existence in Hamilton
are The Exchange Hotel, also in Denison Street, formerly the Miner’s Exchange
which opened in 1880, and the Sydney Junction Hotel, opening in 1881 under the
name of the Woods Family Hotel. See<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Saturday 6 May, 1882<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Peter
Murray, 2006, From Borehole to Hamilton Jubilee 1848-1921, Peter Murray,
Newcastle, p. 148<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Newcastle Sun, 16 July 1969<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Miners’ Advocate, Friday 26 November 1915<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The
Catholic Press, Thursday 28 August, 1919 p. 47<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Newcastle Sun, Saturday 28
July, 1923. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The MV Pasha Bulker ran aground on Nobby’s Beach
during a major storm on 8 June, 2007. The ship was waiting to enter Newcastle
Port to load coal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A severe storm (dubbed
a super storm) said to be worse than the Pasha Bulker storm hit Newcastle and
the Hunter on 22 April, 2015. An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter
magnitude scale occurred in Newcastle on 28 December, 1989.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-80818070629514359012015-06-21T15:20:00.008+10:002021-08-11T15:24:51.662+10:00Last days of the Newcastle trams<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hamilton has a
lively history as a transport hub. I am reminded of this when I drive past
Hamilton Station, ever since the heavy rail line was truncated there on Boxing
Day, 2014. Especially in peak hour, buses jostle for space along a cramped section
of the Islington end of Beaumont Street, often queuing back into Fern Street.
As the waiting buses belch fumes, passengers hurry from trains to their
connecting buses for the city.<span><a name='more'></a></span> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A kilometre or so south, in the relative calm of
Denison Street, buses rest in the Hamilton Depot between shifts, or lumber noisily
out the gate to be on their way. My young grandsons have loved watching the drivers
arrive for work with lunch in their backpacks. The drivers always have time for
friendly waves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Hamilton Depot, also known as the Gordon Avenue
Depot, was once the home of Newcastle’s trams. I came to appreciate something
of the role trams played in Newcastle’s transport history through Noel Reed.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Noel,
now an octogenarian, was ‘on the spot’ to photograph the last years of the
Newcastle trams, from 1947 to 1950.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Trams and buses share the
Hamilton Depot, 11 June 1950<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Trams are marked with
farewell messages<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Photograph by Noel Reed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Newcastle’s first trams were operated by steam. Their
introduction in 1897 followed the success of Sydney services and community
agitation for something better than horse drawn buses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Steam trams served Newcastle well for over 35 years,
until the rather antiquated and inefficient system was electrified. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The first electric tram to operate in Newcastle was
Car 274, crossing Hunter Street at 6.40 am on 4 December 1923. The main city
terminus had a panoramic view of Newcastle Beach, situated as it was on a
headland at Parnell Place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Noel Reed’s fascination with Newcastle’s electric
trams began when visiting his Welsh-born great grandmother Mary Griffiths at
New Lambton in the late 1930s. Her small weatherboard house was just a block
away from the Wallsend tramline. The Sydney lad loved watching the trams pass,
and sometimes placed penny coins on the lines to have them squashed by the
wheels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Years later, in December 1947 – having completed his
final year of high school – Noel visited Newcastle on a tram tour with the
Australian Railway Historical Society and the Australian Electric Traction
Association. Already a keen photographer, and the youngest in the group, he
documented the tour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Noel was to come to Newcastle on several more occasions
in 1949 and 1950. He rode his 125cc Lambretta motor scooter on the notorious
Pacific Highway from his home in Northbridge, Sydney. These were the last years
of the Newcastle trams. The adventurous, tram-loving engineering student recorded
their passing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Noel Reed (front) and his
friend Bob Young – no helmets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph courtesy of Noel Reed</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As the population expanded into the suburbs, and buses
proved more flexible and efficient, a decision was made to close the Newcastle
tramways. This was done in stages, beginning in September 1948 with the
Mayfield line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Closure of the long Wallsend line was unusual for a
number of reasons. On the last full day of regular service, Saturday 5 November
1949, a crisis occurred when a truck broke down in Robert Street, Wallsend.
Noel happened to be on the tram from Newcastle to Wallsend, and delayed by the
mishap. He jumped off and captured shots of one of the blocked trams towing the
truck off the tramlines.</span></div>
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to a halt in Robert Street, Wallsend</span></div>
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intended to be the last service from Wallsend to Newcastle. It left Newcastle
just after 1.30 am on Sunday 6 November, 1949 for Wallsend. There, it would stand
until it was time to return at dawn (5.03 am) for Newcastle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Crew, passengers and tram
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after all. Car 317 had met the Sydney bound Glen Innes mail train at
Broadmeadow before departing at 5.25 am, and was overtaken by Car 316 at the
New Lambton crossover. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> So Car 317
was the very last tram off the Wallsend line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">On 10 June 1950, the last day the Waratah
line operated, Noel snapped maintenance ganger Tom Stoddart oiling the points
where the Waratah tram line became a single track at Broadmeadow and Boreas
Roads, Hamilton North. Noel wondered at the futility of oiling the points when
the line was about to close. He answered his own question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Newcastle after returning</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> from Waratah </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">and before heading to Hamilton Depot, 11
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the Waratah line, had left Telford Street in the city at 12.36 am filled to
capacity. It was followed by a procession of motorists blaring their horns. The
tram’s departure from Waratah was celebrated by firing a giant sky rocket,
which managed to hit some overhead wires and release a shower of sparks. Car
147, carrying a few enthusiasts, reached Hamilton Depot at 2.05 am. <o:p></o:p></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thank you to Noel Reed, for
generously sharing information and photographs, and to Craig Smith for creating
‘then and now’ composites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">An article
‘Recollections of a golden era of transport’ containing some of this information
and written by Ruth Cotton was published in the Newcastle Post, Wednesday 11
March 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Related posts </span><span style="font-family: arial;">that touch on Hamilton's transport evolution: </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-56534581870353996842015-06-05T10:57:00.007+10:002021-08-11T14:56:48.163+10:00From ship's mate to Hamilton station master<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When Harry (Henry) Frank Nesbitt was christened
in 1858 at St Pancras Old Church, London, his godfather was Admiral Sir Charles
Kelso, of the British Navy. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This association would shape his destiny – his
career choice, where he would live, and who he would marry.<span><a name='more'></a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Harry’s father, Anthony, who worked as a Clerk in
the British Museum, died when the boy was 12. His godfather (and Anthony’s good
friend) took him into his care. Little is known about Harry’s mother, Mary Ann
Nesbitt, but she may well have found it hard to cope after her husband’s death.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Spelling
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London 1853, died Hamilton 5/7/18 (1918)’<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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encouraged to look to the sea for a career. He enlisted as a trainee officer in
the British Royal Navy. Later he transferred to the Merchant Navy. Apprenticed
to work on deep sea vessels, Harry sailed on ships such as ‘Ranee’, ‘Agnes Edgell’,
‘GG Anjee’, ‘Cowan’, and the ‘Casablanca’. On occasion, Harry was on board
ships berthing at Newcastle Harbour, in Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Carpenter, who was living in Denison Street, Hamilton NSW, Harry was introduced
to Katherine (Catherine) Moy, Carpenter’s sister-in-law. Harry and Katherine
married in 1878, but she accepted him on condition that he left the sea, and
found a land job.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A later
photograph of Harry Frank and Katherine Nesbitt, 1916</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">While Harry had gained his 2<sup>nd</sup>
Mate’s Certificate and later his Master’s Certificate, he left the Navy without
ever taking command of a ship. His last on-water job was on the Newcastle tug
boats. What would he do now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Newcastle, starting ‘from the bottom’ as a porter in the goods shed at
Newcastle Station. During his time there, a son Anthony (1898), and a daughter Mary
Ann (1882) were born. Two more sons and a daughter died soon after birth. In all, the couple had 9 surviving children. <o:p></o:p></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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Officer in Charge, the post office was on the platform, and Harry’s job
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to put down roots, and become involved in the community. Katharine embroidered
altar cloths for St David’s Anglican Church and gave generously to miners when
they were down on their luck. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Master at Quirindi, Murrurundi, and Singleton until in 1909, he was transferred
to Hamilton. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Victorian buildings that we see today at Hamilton Station were not actually
built until 1898. From the 1860s, the community had agitated, on and off, for a
station at Hamilton, with two platforms, and proper access from both Hamilton
and Islington. I wrote about some of this early history in my blog post on the
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/sydney-junction-hotel-family-story.html">Sydney Junction Hotel.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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running of the trains through their station. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Harry Nesbitt became a member of the Protestant
Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia, Perseverance Lodge No. 40, in
Hamilton. This Friendly Society provided medical and financial support for
members and their families when the breadwinner was unable to work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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skilled woodworker, Harry built furniture such as desks and stools as well as
model ships, and frames for oil paintings done by daughter Mary Ann. His pieces
were expertly joined with perfectly formed dovetailed joints. The timber came
from <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/when-hudson-street-hummed.html">Hely Brothers</a>, a large manufacturing business conveniently nearby in
Hudson Street, Hamilton. </span></div>
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Tucked behind a brick frontage that is now a Mexican restaurant, the
weatherboard house is still there today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for a time in </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/the-old-hamilton-flour-mill.html.">McIntyre's flour mill</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px;">, another Hudson Street business.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">George enlisted for service
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from George Nesbitt to his father, postmarked France, February 24<sup>th</sup>,
1917<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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face. He was one of many who received extensive plastic surgery in England at
what was then the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would not have been enough for this keen fisherman and wood craftsman.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
grave of Harry Frank Nesbitt, 1853-1918</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A large and loyal staff served the NSW
government railways in its hey-day. The bare facts of their employment have
been preserved in NSW State Records, along with something of the history of NSW
Rail.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Yet it is stories like this one, of a young ship’s mate who found himself on
the other side of the world, fell in love and married, and had to find a new
career that reveal the pain, the pride, and joy in the everyday lives of people
just like us – people who became part of railway history.</span></div>
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important </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">railway
junctions in NSW </span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="font-family: arial; mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">[5]</span></span></a></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">
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Harry Frank Nesbitt, for sharing information and photographs, thus providing a personal
insight into the life of one of Hamilton’s earliest Station Masters. All
photographs, unless otherwise attributed, are from Brian Archer’s family
collection. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-1394069353144973412015-05-26T14:17:00.006+10:002021-08-11T12:00:31.906+10:00St Peter's Anglican Church, Hamilton<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Hundreds of children were on the march, a
more-or-less orderly line snaking its way from St Peter’s Anglican Church to
Hamilton Station. At the front, two children held a wavering church banner
aloft. They were off to the annual Sunday School picnic at Speers Point, the
highlight of the year. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">First, they would catch the train to Cockle
Creek, then a steam tram to Speers Point. The event would have been an exciting
adventure for children whose families did not own cars, and who walked
everywhere within their suburb, Hamilton.<span><a name='more'></a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Picnic
at Speers Point (n.d.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Photograph
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Photographic Collection, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">courtesy Cultural Collections, University of
Newcastle, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The small rise crowned by Hamilton Public
School and St Peter’s Anglican Church has long been a place of learning for
children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine the noise and bustle of 500 children
gathering for Sunday School each week, taught by a small army of 40 teachers!
This was peak participation, sometime in the 1930s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">St Peter’s first Sunday School Hall was an
economical building - made of unpainted timber slabs recycled from the first
church. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Eventually considered ‘unsafe and unsightly,’ a
new hall replaced the old in 1897 - but only after much debate and dispute within
the church Council about the additional debt involved. In fact, two Council
members resigned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Numbers were still on the rise when in 1921,
another new hall was built. All the land was mortgaged, except where the church
stood. In 1970, when the Sunday School and Church Hall was dramatically
modernized with optimism and at considerable cost, church decision makers were
not to know the future. Within a decade or two, Sunday schools, youth
fellowships and large church gatherings would become things of the past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">St
Peter’s Church and Rectory, Hamilton 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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buildings<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The first Anglican church in Hamilton was of built
timber slabs between 1863 and 1864, at 148 Denison Street. Because a church
still stands on this site today, we can pinpoint almost exactly where the AA
Company’s D Pit once was – just opposite. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Opening on 3 July, 1864, the first church seated
80 - 100 people. No longer would parishioners have to catch the clanking dusty rail
trolley that the AA Company provided on Sundays, to worship at St John’s, Cook’s
Hill. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Twenty years later, in 1883, plans were underway
to have a new church built.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The influential church architect, expatriate
American John Horbury Hunt, was commissioned to design it. If Councillors
thought the next stage would be smooth sailing, how wrong they were. Horbury
Hunt was reportedly ‘a man of quick temperament’ who ‘often fell foul of
workmen and employers.’ At times he was at loggerheads with one or another Council
members, and once declared Council members ‘greengrocers and guttersnipes.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Hamilton was a large and populous centre but it
was not prosperous. Still, by March 1884, £1200 had been raised by hard working
parishioners towards what would be the final cost of £1900. State aid for such
buildings had ended, and St Peter’s was built entirely from public subscription
– a great tribute to the efforts of ‘greengrocers and guttersnipes’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Many of those early Council members have left
their names to be remembered on surrounding Hamilton streets and in Hamilton
Municipal Council records – men like James Ray, William H Milton, Thomas Tudor
and J Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The new church, seating around 200 people, was
dedicated on 29 October, 1885. This simple brick building, in Gothic style,
would become historically and socially significant at a local level. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">The
foundation stone for St Peter’s Church is dated 1896, 11 years after it was
opened</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The church’s one design flourish would be an
unusually shaped bell turret, a brick cylinder ascending into a pyramidal
timber spine. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Its
height is between a bell tower and a spire. Today, this turret is a significant
landmark in Hamilton, and a means by which Hunt gave his buildings
individuality.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Originally,
the church was designed with a pyramid roofed lantern above the nave, a
counterpoint to the turret. Thought also to be for ventilation, it was removed
in 1911. Unusually, too, the church is side-on to the street, to overcome the
problem of a shallow plot of land and to provide interest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Peter’s Anglican Church, 148 Denison Street, Hamilton NSW (n.d.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">In this
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this post, he is concerned about the damage to the church roof caused by the
violent April storms of 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">This
unusual bell turret on St Peter’s Church remains </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">a significant Hamilton
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organ, but in 1890 it was sold. A replacement was purchased from All Saints Anglican
Church, Singleton for £75. A Walcker, this organ dates from 1861 and is believed
to be the first Walcker organ built for W H Paling of Sydney. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
However, the organ proved to be ‘a-bit-of-a-lemon’, with major problems; even
‘entirely useless’, according to one expert, with repairs costing a further £70
over the purchase price needed to make it playable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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St Peter’s Parish Council seeking to delay the final payment and requesting
compensation for repairs - without result. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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twice, in 1903 and 1924. It suffered water damage, and was attacked by borers.
Finally, in 1967 it was sold for £700, and transferred piece by piece to the
home of its new owner in Campbelltown. Until then, the organ that was ‘a-bit-of-a-lemon’
had provided 77 years of service. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Bertie Nicholls) who played the organ at St Peter’s from 1920 – 1960. Apparently
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he had some irritating habits – like bringing
onion sandwiches to church. If he didn’t like the hymn selected, he’d play
something else – his reason being that ‘the congregation didn’t know that one’.
Still, the number of weddings, services and funerals at which Bertie had played
the organ over those 40 years would be phenomenal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Seeing the writing on the wall, the Council had
set up a fund in 1962 to finance a new organ. Organ manufacturers J W Walker
and Sons of London sent a recording of one of their organs to Hamilton. Once
heard, it was decided that ‘this was the one’. Despite the fact that only £1000
had been raised, and the new one would cost £12,000, the purchase went ahead,
in great faith. Finally, the new organ arrived in perfect condition – all parts
handmade, including 433 pipes. It was dedicated on 30 April, 1967.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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today. Father David is acutely aware that now, after half a century of service,
even this great instrument needs repair. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">on 3 July. The Hamilton Council had written to
the Parish requesting that a ‘privy’ be built for the convenience of those
attending the church and Sunday School. The meeting considered this would be a
great nuisance, and a motion was passed to say the letter marked ‘to be
complied with’ be lost. Clearly a law unto itself - were they all men at the
vestry meeting?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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present a nuisance. One parishioner complained about a woman who ‘repeatedly
left the church at the same time each Sunday and the resulting noise disturbed
her in her worship. Maybe it was during the sermon?’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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clergy was noise and disruption by youth at the back of the church during the
service. On one occasion Canon Ramm stopped his sermon short and issued an
ultimatum – either they cease their noise or he would call the police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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group, St Peter’s Church, Hamilton NSW, 18 April 1896<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The lack of a permanent home for the Rector and
his family was finally addressed in 1905. After petitioning the AA Company’s
head office in London for a grant of land for the Rectory, and assisted by the
influence of Mr Jesse Gregson, then AA Company Superintendent and luckily, a
member of the church, the request was granted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A fund was established and in 1906, Menkens and
Castleden were chosen as the architects. F W Menkens designed many impressive Newcastle
buildings, including the <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/from-freemasons-to-katie-noonan.html">Masonic Hall </a> and the <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/tale-of-two-buildings.html">Mechanics' Institute</a> in Hamilton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Peter’s. Reading between the lines of the historical account, it appears Mr
Menkens may have gotten a bit carried away with his plans for the Rectory.
After submitting three designs, the fourth was finally accepted. However, the
Council must have been uneasy about how they were going to pay for even that
modified design. When Menckens conveniently departed on an overseas trip, his
partner F G Castleden was asked to come up with something less elaborate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rectory is a gracious brick </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">bungalow with nine rooms, large halls and wide
verandahs. Ceilings are of Queensland pine, and fittings of maple. The
interiors have been updated over time.</span></div>
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Peter’s Church, Hamilton</span></div>
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has been subject to many alterations and improvements. From functional
improvements such as pathways and fences, a new western entrance, electric
lighting, carpets, ‘up-to-date’ pews, and replacing the original shingle roof,
to installing new stained glass windows and replacing others, parishioners
somehow found the necessary funds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Peter’s. In 1906 the interior was painted to brighten up the church. By 1916,
the damp was just as bad, so the mortar was scraped out from between the bricks
in the sanctuary, and walls covered with timber panelling. Because only one
quote for the work was obtained, Mr W Milton, one of the longer serving laymen
of the parish, resigned. One hundred years later, the damp continues and the
problem remains unsolved – a legacy, perhaps of inadequate foundations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’ve often noticed how the names of some community leaders recur again and
again in businesses, churches and friendly societies, or the Hamilton Municipal
Council. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I first learned about Mr FW Lean and Mr K A
Mathieson when writing the story of <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/greater-stories-to-be-told.html">the Greater Building Society.</a> Together, in 1924, Lean and Mathieson created the Newcastle and Hunter River
Star-Bowkett Building Cooperative Society, the forerunner of the Greater as we
know it today. As influential Anglicans, deeply involved in St Peter’s Church,
both men believed strongly that innovative ways should be found to enable ordinary
people to own their own home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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within the church. As superintendent of the Sunday School, he declared that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘part of the aim (of Sunday School) was to
make the children fit citizens of the community.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
He was at various times, Captain of the Tennis Club; co-founder of the Anglican
Temperance Society; Secretary of the Anglican Men’s Society; and leader of the
Young Churchman’s Union. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much to St Peter’s was Mr Fred Hely. <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/when-hudson-street-hummed.html">Hely Brothers Pty Ltd</a> was a large
Hamilton business, manufacturing tool handles, shovels, spades and wheel
components. ‘Fred’, as he was known, was Chairman of Hely Brothers and had a
long and almost unbroken association with St Peter’s since before the first
World War. Fred’s father, his brother and Fred himself served on the Parish
Council, Fred for a time as Secretary, and advisor to the Parish Paper. For his
wisdom and experience, he became known as the Elder Statesman. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I often wonder what it was that impelled our
forebears to make personal sacrifices to create inspiring built structures, spaces
within which a community of people with shared values could flourish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">For its first hundred years or so, the
community of St Peter’s was almost a world unto itself. It was not just a place
for worship, learning and spiritual solace. It was a highly connected,
interwoven network of groups in which friendships were sustained, social lives
conducted, and new skills developed. It was a place for volunteering, and for
service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">As well as the groups mentioned earlier, women’s
groups such as Young Women’s Club, the Women’s Guild, and the Mother’s Union
provided a friendship and support network for women, forged in practical and
spiritual activities. Some parishioners today still remember the heady days of
the tennis club, although the tennis court gave way to a parking space in the 1980s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in its own right – members stood their ground on issues of principle, like whether
they should be expected to contribute to the collection plate when they had to
buy their own music scores and books. But they also went on picnics, social
outings, and holidays together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the parishioners of St Peter’s, Hamilton. They have helped create the rich
social capital to be found in our suburb today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remember the English philosopher and writer Alain de Botton <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
lamenting that secular society does not nourish our souls and imaginations in
the way that religion has done. He asks - where do we go for the meaning and
wisdom we need to make it through the day? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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old, suggests de Botton – how to build a sense of community, inspire the desire
for service, practice life-affirming rituals, and even… how to create
opportunities for strangers to sing together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">the
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from the historical and heritage references cited. My thanks also to Father
David Smith (since retired) for his contribution and for welcoming photographer Craig Smith and
me to the St Peter’s Church and site. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> A History of St Peter’s Church, Hamilton,
Newcastle New South Wales to mark the Centenary Year 1885-1985. Researched and
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turrets
are generally round or polygonal, whereas St Peter’s turret ascends from
circular to pyramidical. Heritage note, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage,
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Newcastle New South Wales to mark the Centenary Year 1885-1985. Researched and
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Newcastle New South Wales to mark the Centenary Year 1885-1985. Researched and
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Newcastle New South Wales to mark the Centenary Year 1885-1985. Researched and
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-22755039072205663992015-05-19T16:17:00.011+10:002021-08-11T11:55:20.981+10:00The Roxy Theatre<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When I first heard Colin Chapman’s
name spoken, it was in reverential tones. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Of
course, you know of Colin Chapman.’</i> I didn’t, then – but now I understand
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Colin Chapman was a singer, teacher,
conductor, producer, director, actor and playwright. A leader and a visionary,
he was able to gather round him others who shared his vision and were prepared
to personally volunteer their skills, effort and time to achieving it.<span><a name='more'></a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Colin
Chapman, 1904-1984</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From the
personal collection of Betty Lind</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Novocastrians didn’t realize it at
the time, but in 1938 when Colin Chapman established the Colin Chapman
Students’ Club, later to become the Newcastle Dramatic Art Club (NDAC), he
would be giving Newcastle its first long lived theatrical company. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">NDAC would buy and sell two Roxy
Theatres in Hamilton, and despite financial ups and downs, continue to operate for
over 70 years until 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapman would also be giving
hundreds of individuals the opportunity for self expression, friendship, service
to a shared cause, and for some, career advancement. NDAC has been described as
‘the fount from which much of Newcastle theatre has flowed.’ <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
He would be giving the Newcastle community endless delight in performance art,
and an appreciation of a world of music and culture far beyond the boundaries
of this industrial city. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Not just the fount from which
Newcastle theatre flowed, the association was where many met and married their
future partners. Betty Lind, Colin’s daughter, estimates there could have been as
many as 150 weddings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Who was Colin Chapman?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Colin Chapman was born in 1904 in
Boorowa, NSW, one of two children. His father was a soldier; his mother had
theatrical leanings she was unable to pursue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapman’s working life began on the
railways. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When Chapman married Emma (known as
Ailey) Field in 1929, he was Night Officer at Cardiff. Always a lover of music
and singing, Chapman began formal studies under Gladys Davis in Newcastle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Not only did he become the youngest
stationmaster in NSW at the time, based at Arthurville, but he also became
known as ‘the singing railwayman.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1934 Chapman entered the City of
Sydney eisteddfod and was successful, and again in 1935 and 1936 when he won
the Operatic Championship. Part of the prize was to participate in a season of
grand opera the ABC was presenting on radio with the famous conductor Maurice
de Abravanel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘My father toured for the ABC
throughout Australia,’ explained daughter Betty Lind, ‘but he couldn’t afford
to travel overseas to continue his career. By then he had a wife and family. He
became a well known soloist in Newcastle and featured in many of the musical
events of the city at this time.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">With such experience, and a growing
reputation, in 1938 Chapman began teaching singing. His first studios were in
New Lambton and Maitland, later expanding to Newcastle city, Charlestown and Goulburn.</span></div>
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for The White Horse Inn, from </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the personal collection of Betty Lind</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It was at the first annual recital
at the Maitland studio that the formation of the Colin Chapman Students Club
was announced. The new Club would give his students ‘a stage to perform on.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Club went from strength to
strength, presenting musicals at Newcastle City Hall and the Victoria Theatre.
Throughout the second World War, many concerts were given to troops in the
area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Club members gave unstintingly,’
says Betty Lind. ‘They were holding down their ordinary jobs during the day and
supporting the war effort at night.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Colin Chapman Students Club
became the Colin Chapman Dramatic Art Club and then, in 1950, the Newcastle
Dramatic Art Club (NDAC). With the last change, Colin Chapman remained as
producer and became Club President. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">By this time, Chapman had
established his family in Hamilton. They lived in Gordon Avenue from 1944 until
1970. In the 1960s Chapman moved his ‘studio of opportunity’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to Hamilton, where it occupied three
different sites over time, including 34 and 124 Beaumont Street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1953 NDAC became the first
amateur company in the world to produce ‘Oklahoma.’ It was performed in the
Victoria Theatre, Newcastle. <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Over these years, Colin Chapman had
nurtured a long held dream – that NDAC would one day, have its own theatre. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">That dream was realized when the
first Roxy Theatre, at 99 Beaumont Street, <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
opened on Friday 14 October 1955. It became Newcastle’s premier live theatre
venue, from 1955 until its closure in 1971. NDAC had around 130 members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Roxy had been a popular picture theatre. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Roxy’s life began in 1913. Newly
built for Union Pictures Pty Ltd on land occupied since 1883 by George
Gilbert’s mixed goods shop, <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
the wood and metal structure was opened on 3 May 1913 by Mayor CG Melville. The
band of the Hamilton Superior Public School performed in front of hundreds of
people. It was the days of the ‘silent movies,’ and a 7-piece orchestral group
provided the sound track from the orchestra pit at the front. <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1923, William Herbert, who owned
theatres at Islington and Broadmeadow, added the one in Hamilton to his group. The
story is told how a couple of boys were given the job of carrying the reels
from one theatre to another on their bikes, racing to get there in time for the
scheduled show. <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> After
1929, the Hamilton theatre was renamed the Roxy, and showed ‘talkies’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Theatre, Hamilton (n.d.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">With the advent of television,
cinema audiences were in decline. The Roxy cinema is remembered with immense
fondness by Newcastle children, teenagers and adults alike. Many high tales are
told of early picture going adventures!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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theatre (facing Beaumont Street) including the orchestra pit, creating an
auditorium that could be used as a basketball court. This is where the
Newcastle Basketball Association began. Hire revenue helped NDAC’s bottom line,
not just from the NBA but also from other theatrical groups and organisations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The next 16 years in a permanent
home allowed NDAC to flourish, with several productions each year. An opera
season saw packed houses of up to 500 patrons to see Cavalleria Rusticana,
Pagliacci, and Faust.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Musicals such as ‘Kismet’ and ‘South Pacific’
were hugely popular, as was ‘The New Moon,’ the show that celebrated the opening of
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Matt Hayes, Dramatic Critic for the ‘Newcastle Sun’, said –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘The history of this achievement is
essentially a story of personal effort and sacrifice, of courage and patience
and dogged determination; and the full extent of this can on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">A full
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">an
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">From the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Many key people supported Colin
throughout, not least his wife Ailey, Secretary Madge Ormerod, and daughter
Betty (now Betty Lind).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Aileen
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">From the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Colin’s first born, Betty had left
school at the age of 15, and joined her father as a piano and singing teacher
in his studio. She was later charged with the responsibility of establishing
his Goulburn studio. Betty’s debut performance was singing the lead role in
‘Tosca’ in 1959 at the Roxy Theatre. Another lead followed followed in
1960,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as ‘Bloody Mary’ in South Pacific.
She played opposite Frank Lind in ‘The White Horse Inn’, and they married in
1962. The young couple made their home in Hamilton North.</span></div>
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of NDAC, and later served as Treasurer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Madge was a tower of strength. She
kept my father’s feet on the ground,’ Betty told me. ‘He was a do-er. She was
his anchor.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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she became acclaimed as an actress in her own right. An executive officer in
the rates department of the Newcastle City Council, Madge sometimes relieved as
Secretary to the Mayor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When Colin Chapman began writing a
musical of his own, he turned for inspiration to the story of Tasmanian-born
Eileen Joyce. Joyce rose from poverty and hardship to world wide fame as a
concert pianist. The genesis of what would become the musical ‘Ragged Ann’ lay
in a period of deep despondency Chapman experienced while ill in a London
hospital in the 1950s.<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
He’d been told by his treating doctor, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Go
home and put your affairs in order.’ </i>Feeling hopeless, yet desperate to
complete what he thought of as his life mission, he began to read the lives of
many of the world’s greats. He describes beginning to write, lifting his head
up, and fighting back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapman revisited his original
inspiration in the late 1960s, completed writing what he’d begun, and in 1969,
the result – ‘Ragged Ann’ – was on show at the Roxy. <span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title="">[9]</a></span></span><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Eventually the prospect of
maintaining the deteriorating building became too much for NDAC, and in 1971,
they decided to sell. Little did they know that a policy and funding environment
much more sympathetic to the arts – the Whitlam government – was around the
corner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">NDAC would be without a home for
almost a decade. In 1974, the Club became the first company to use the
Newcastle Civic Theatre, which had been newly released from its requirement to
only show films. From 1974 to 1980, NDAC presented two shows a year at the
Civic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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church of the Assemblies of God at 145 Beaumont Street. The new Roxy opened on
30 October 1981 and an exciting and productive new phase would begin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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opening of the new Roxy Theatre in 1981, Colin Chapman <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the second lead role in ‘Smilin’ Through’. He was then 77<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From the
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font, used for total immersion,’ Betty Lind explained. ‘We built the stage over
it.’ When the company put on the drama ‘You Can’t Take it with You’, a hole was
cut in the stage so that two actors could disappear down a cellar – into the
old font! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bought the new theatre, Colin Chapman passed away. He was 80.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Writing in the program for ‘Merry
Melodies,’ President Frank Lind reflected on what NDAC had achieved since purchasing
the new Roxy. It was 1989, and the occasion was also a celebration of the
opening of the new foyer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The building had been purchased for
$83,000. NDAC had borrowed $35,000 from the State Bank, $15,000 from members,
and fundraised the balance of $15,000. In an incredible feat, the debt had been
repaid in full by August 1988.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Public Halls Department asked that as soon as possible, the foyer be
enlarged. However, the owners of the adjacent property objected to the
necessary extension to the footpath level. Eventually, NDAC purchased that
property too, thus eliminating the objection and providing a more spacious home
for the Roxy Costume Hire Shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">The Roxy
Costume Hire Shop had long been an integral part </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">of the Roxy Theatre <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">From the
personal collection of Betty Lind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In March 1987 the foyer
redevelopment began. It was to cost $60,000 - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>almost as much as the original theatre - and
involve contractors, volunteers, donations from businesses, fundraising and
in-kind contributions on a huge scale. The Newcastle City Council supported
NDAC over several years, and the State Government provided a grant of $2,500 –
the first time in 50 years NDAC had ever received a grant from the State or
Federal government. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1988 NDAC received a CONDA award
from the City of Newcastle for 50 years of service to theatre in the city. What
a pity Colin Chapman was not alive to receive it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">So many NDAC members who began under
Chapman’s tutelage, performed in NDAC productions, and went on to bigger and
better things have this man to thank. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">At the time of the opening of the
first Roxy in 1955, John Shaw (later AO, OBE) was performing in a principal
role with the Italian Grand Opera in Australia. Rosina Raisbeck MBE, another protégée,
went on to become a principal singer at London’s Covent Garden Opera. Barbara
Leigh, Mona Malcolm, Betty Benfield, Eric Morrissey, and David Williams are
mentioned in the Souvenir Brochure as singers who achieved notable careers,
while many others won local prominence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Theatre in Newcastle owes a
tremendous amount to my father,’ Betty tells me. ‘Before he started NDAC,
professional theatre didn’t want to come to Newcastle. It was known as the
graveyard of theatre. Because of the work of everyone in the group, that
changed.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">She believes her father was a man ahead
of his time. ‘His understanding of the vocal process was so far ahead of
current thinking – years later, I began hearing in seminars the things my
father had taught. Now they were being scientifically substantiated,’ Betty
says. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Roxy Theatre was sold in 2001.
Jeckyl and Hyde was NDAC’s final show, presented in 2010 at the Civic Theatre.
It had produced and presented over 300 plays and musicals in 60 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The can-do, show-must-go-on spirit
which infused the association of people that made up NDAC, under Colin
Chapman’s intrepid leadership, is epitomized in a little story told by Betty
Lind. Writing about the challenges of extending the foyer of the new Roxy, she
says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘We had to install a steel pole on
the property next door for the electricity. The pole (post hole ) digger we
hired was not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>long enough, so Amanda
Helmers volunteered to go head first into the hole, the guys holding her by the
legs, and dig out the remaining depth to make it the required 1.5 metres.
That’s what I call dedication.’ <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘There were so many people involved
over the years,’ Betty concludes. ‘While Dad was the centrepin, to make things
happen there had to be commitment from so many people – we received that… from
people in all walks of life. The businesses, business managers, journalists,
and the thousands of individuals who were members or supporters of the Club.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">In a typical example of corporate support, David Jones took a full page advertisement </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">as a
tribute to Colin Chapman, in the program for 'Ragged Ann'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From the
personal collection of Betty Lind</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘To the thousands and thousands who
saw our shows over the years, the people of the Hunter who supported the
theatre, without them there would have been nothing.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s also true to say that without
the dedication and commitment of a relatively small number of people who loved
theatre with an enduring passion, there would have been nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">NDAC
Committee 1955<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From the
personal collection of Betty Lind</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Productions of opera, musicals and plays at the Roxy Theatre, 99 Beaumont
Street (1955-1971) and 145 Beaumont Street, Hamilton (1981-2001) <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[11]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1955<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>New
Moon (Opening)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Reluctant Debutante<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1956<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anything
Goes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1958<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
Monday Next<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Red Mill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hamlet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Julius
Caesar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1959 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Lost Prince (Children’s Theatre)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Bus Stop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Madame
Butterfly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tosca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1959<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Janus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kiss
me Kate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1960<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Separate
Tables<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Glass Menagerie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Wizard
of Oz (Children’s Theatre)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Look
Back in Anger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leave
it to Jane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>South
Pacific<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Me Kate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Carmen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They
Came to a City<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1962<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Elixir
of Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1963<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Free
as Air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leave
it to Jane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1964<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Show
Boat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Call
Me Madam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Playboy
of the Western World<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Faust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cavalleria
Rusticana<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1965<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Irma
La Duce<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Il
Pagliacci<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Il
Trovatore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Die
Fledermaus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1966<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Annie
Get Your Gun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Androcles
and the Lion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hamlet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Blithe
Spirit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1967<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Look
Back in Anger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Playboy
of the Western World<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1968<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Loot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mrs
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Once
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1969<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ragged
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1970<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ragged
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oliver<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sound
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Camelot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Swamp
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1971<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Half
a Sixpence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1981<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Smilin’
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1982<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What’s
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1983<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lock
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1985<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Blithe
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sheer
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1986<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Annie
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1987<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1988<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1989<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Merry
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1990<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>See
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1992<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1993<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Crucible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Something’s
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1994<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Who’s
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1995<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Little
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">See How
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Fiddler
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1996<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Showboat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Me
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bedroom
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Red
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1997<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Various
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1998<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Meet
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1999<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Call
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Godspell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Boeing
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Acknowledgements <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you to Betty Lind for
photographs, mementos and information, and to Jackie Ansell for the
introduction. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Related post</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Music in the genes – Betty Lind</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/music-in-genes-betty-lind.html" style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/music-in-genes-betty-lind.html</a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Note</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This post has focused on the Roxy
Theatre, at its two different sites in Hamilton, and Colin Chapman as the
driving force behind NDAC. However, no story about the Roxy would be complete
without touching on the larger story of NDAC. While we have sought to provide
broader context, the account here is not a complete history of NDAC, or its
performances and activities elsewhere in Newcastle, the Hunter and beyond. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NDAC Program notes ‘Ragged Ann,’ Roxy
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<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">
NDAC Souvenir Brochure to commemorate the opening of the Roxy Theatre,
Hamilton. Friday 14 October 1955. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Westpac Bank now occupies the site, at
99-101 Beaumont Street, Hamilton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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she led around Hamilton, local historian Mavis Ebbott notes that the Bank of
NSW built a small bank near George Gilbert’s shop before 1929. The Bank of NSW
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Personal communication from local historian Mavis Ebbott.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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NDAC Souvenir Brochure to commemorate the opening of the Roxy Theatre,
Hamilton. Friday 14 October 1955. History of the NDAC. Matt Hayes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Colin Chapman was in England
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Information from an article by Colin Chapman in the ‘Ragged Ann’ program:
Inspiration …to whom does it come? - From whence does it flow?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This listing combines information provided by Betty Lind and found on
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-47057798361458857402015-05-14T15:49:00.007+10:002021-08-11T11:46:37.540+10:00Elisa and Peter Sandrone<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">These days, Elisa Sandrone is retired from her
work as restaurateur, cooking teacher, child care provider, caterer and chef.
But with her friends and large family, including two children and five
grandchildren, dropping in and out so often I doubt she will ever retire from
taking care of others, offering hospitality, and responding to their desire for
traditional Italian fare.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">To her daughter Luana, Elisa is an inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I wish I could be more like her,’ she tells
me, simply.<span><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Elisa grew up in the town of Itri, in central
Italy. Situated along the Appian Way, Itri connects Rome to the south of the
country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Itri,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Gaetano Manzi (1850-1931), Elisa’s maternal
grandfather, came from an ancient family that traces its lineage far back into
history. Considered wealthy, he had extensive property holdings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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widow with seven children, he remarried. Elisa’s grandmother Francesca had been
a servant in the house, and bore Gaetano a further eight children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When Gaetano lost much of his fortune in a
financial crisis, he found employment as a guard in the royal household<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></b>at
Casserta. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Milena Manzi (b.1913) was Gaetano’s sixth child
from his second marriage. She married Giovanni Lorello in 1934, and they too
made their home in Itri. Giovanni was a builder, working in Rome. Leaving at
3 am on Mondays, he would not be home again until Saturday night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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children - 4 girls and 4 boys. One <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>daughter died at the age of four. Elisa, the
fourth child, was born during World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The town of Itri was badly damaged during
wartime bombing. The family moved to grandfather Gaetano’s farm for safety, two
hours walk from Itri<span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128;">. </span>After the war, they all moved back to Itri <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128;">where
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of normality, Milena reassessed her situation. Her husband was away 6 days out
of 7, and the children were growing up virtually without a father. Milena longed
for a family life; for them to be all together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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15, had married by proxy and emigrated to Australia to join her new husband
there. They were living in Broadmeadow, a suburb of Newcastle, NSW. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Mum missed Bianca,’ explained Elisa, ‘so she
decided to take the whole family to Australia’. It was a bold decision. Elisa had
government sponsorship, so she travelled two weeks<span style="color: red;"> </span>ahead,
alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Elisa
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">With the 5 million lira she had brought from
home, Milena was able to purchase a house in Adamstown, within 6 months of
arrival. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Elisa was now 18. As was customary at the time,
she had completed just five years of schooling. After finishing school, she’d
continued to help her mother at home, learning all she could from this capable
woman. She also did some unpaid work in a local dressmaking shop. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cooking early. She vividly remembers her first job in an Italian restaurant in
Beaumont Street. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I didn’t get paid for three weeks,’ she told
me. ‘Then someone told me to go to the Union. The rep came with me to the
restaurant owner, and made him pay me!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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English. She applied herself to listening to people as they spoke, and reading
the newspapers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elisa had gained sufficient restaurant experience, Milena decided to set her
daughter up in her own restaurant at the corner of Hunter and Wolfe Street,
Newcastle. Named simply ‘Elisa’s Restaurant’, it was next door to <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/the-michelangelo-centre.html">Giuseppe Risicato's</a> photographic studio. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">When Elisa
met customer Peter Sandrone, Elisa was impressed. He’d migrated from the Piedmont region in 1949. ‘I’m tall,’ laughs Elisa, ‘and so was he!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘My Dad
was big.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only in height, but he had
a big personality when with his friends and always seemed
larger-than-life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He always reminded me
of Dean Martin in the Rat Pack era – the suave suit, cufflinks, shiny shoes and
a gold-tipped, Courtleigh brand cigarettes (the cigarette bit I never liked,
but they were the times!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of Mum’s
photos would show you why I say that … He could talk big and liked big,
American cars!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lived in Ingham cutting sugar cane and working in a bar at night so he could
save for his first ‘big American car,’ until he moved to Newcastle with his mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sandrone’s first home was in Mayfield West. In 1968 they bought a house in
Hamilton, where Elisa now lives in her retirement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other things, Peter had run a card gambling club above some shops in Hamilton
(across from the former Italian Centre), a barber shop and a canteen for hungry
mainly-migrant workers at Electrical Power Transmission (EPT) at Carrington. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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very much Peter,’ says Elisa, ‘a place he could go to chat to people and have a
coffee or two – always forgetting about the time while he chatted about soccer,
politics and everything in between</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He made many
great friends during his time – too many to name. He always seemed to have jobs
which involved talking with lots of people!’</span></div>
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for his then young kids, Peter Sandrone was also the owner of an amusement
business, supplying pinball machines, pool tables and all of the newest arcade
game tables of the time (such as Space Invaders) to milk bars and shops around
the greater Newcastle area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Peter and Elisa Sandrone with son
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set up a business contracting out labourers at some of the large industrial
sites. He became a JP and an Interpreter, helping many Italians in need, and
even had a wedding car driving business.<span style="color: red;"> </span>Peter
was Honorary Consular Agent for Newcastle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Dad was
even a background actor with his friend Domenico Buresti in the TV mini series
‘The Cowra Breakout,’ Luana remembers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Throughout
all of this, Peter worked tirelessly for the Highfields Azzurri Club, most of
it on a voluntary basis. He was the Honorary Secretary for many years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘He loved that club and he loved soccer,’ says
Elisa. ‘One of his final wishes was that the Highfields Azzurri team was
returned to 1<sup>st</sup> Division.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">At
Highfields Azzurri Club, Elisa was chef at the Club’s popular bistro, La Piazza
during the 1990s<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.<span style="color: red;"> </span></b>Where else could customers buy all the pasta they wanted for
$5 in 1997? <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Later,
she also ran the bistro at Alder Park Bowling Club at New Lambton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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highlight of Peter and Elisa’s long association with Highfields Azzurri was the
Hamilton Azzurri Soccer Club winning the first championship of the Northern NSW
Grand Final. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Peter Sandrone, President, Hamilton Azzurri
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collecting interests included many mementos from his favorite soccer teams –
Juventus and the Azzurri (both the Highfields and Italian teams). Elisa tells
me he had soccer balls signed by winning Highfields Azzurri teams which not
even his beloved grandchildren were ever allowed to touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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through teaching for WEA, she also shared her skills with Nov<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a</b>castrians keen to learn the secrets of
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has preserved hundreds of recipes from her teaching career, beautifully typed.
Wistfully, Elisa realizes that with the right encouragement and support, she
could have published her own cookbook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">In 1994
Elisa had a chance to honour what she’d learned from her mother. Four of her
recipes were included in the cookbook ‘Buon Appetito – Regional Italian
Recipes’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>published in 1994 by the
Italian- Australian Women’s Association and the NSW State Library. All the featured
recipes had been handed down from mother to daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘What is the most common mistake we make when
we try to cook the Italian way?’ I ask Elisa, as we look through the cookbook
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘And by the way,’ Luana comments later, ‘Mum is
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Throughout their busy lives, working and
raising their family, Peter and Elisa Sandrone gave generously of their time,
energy and enthusiasm to their community. Luana remembers them raising tens of
thousands of dollars for an Italian Earthquake appeal and the Oncology Unit at
the Mater Hospital. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘The fact that I never recall even one day when
we didn’t have a visitor at home is testament to their popularity ...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People were always dropping by to chat, eat
or share stories with both Mum and Dad. It was an interesting childhood …,’
recalls Luana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Mum has
a big personality too. She NEVER stops and is afraid of nothing! To me, she
seems different from many people of her age because she is always willing to
try things. I showed her how to use the internet when she was in her late 60s
and she has been using it ever since.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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should have a chance in life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘I can
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">1 clove
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meat with a meat mallet to make as thin as possible. Into a pan wide enough for
4 portions, add oil, crushed garlic, rosemary and a pinch of salt. Heat. Flour
meat and quickly place in pan. Cook each side for one minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ham then cheese on each piece of meat and pour milk over them. Sprinkle
parsley. Put pan under grill or in oven for a few minutes until cheese is
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-19584262349147236372015-04-25T12:14:00.011+10:002021-08-11T11:42:07.984+10:00When Hudson Street hummed<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">At the northern end of Hudson Street, Hamilton,
amid residential houses, was a veritable hive of industry. But it was more than
that – it was a community. Three large commercial enterprises were interlinked,
bartering their goods and services in a friendly, mutually beneficial exchange.
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mill were a Hamilton landmark for many decades. Between 1899 to 1989, the mill
supplied flour to bakers in Newcastle and beyond, including overseas.<span><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
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Mill silos each holding 3000 tons of wheat, 1982<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brothers, manufacturer of tool handles, shovels, spades and wheel components.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Hely Brothers actually began operations in
1884, at Dora Creek. A large sawmill processed timber hauled by bullock teams
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Street, was William Cann’s bakery, one of the largest in Newcastle. Apprentice
bakers like Jim Walker carted flour in 150 pound sacks from the mill store to
the bakery, a couple of blocks down Hudson Street. That was the first part of
the journey - Jim told me the flour was stored on the second floor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tool handles – hickory, imported from the USA, and Australian spotted gum. It
was the next best thing to hickory for making tool handles as it possesses superior
qualities for absorbing the force of impact. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wood was stacked to dry out. Apprentice bakers barrowed wood to the bakery
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use to bake Christmas hams for staff of suppliers and businesses that were part
of Cann’s network. For a nominal charge, Cann’s bakers encased the hams in
dough made from McIntyre’s flour. Each ham had a small metal tag with its
owner’s name, supplied by Hely Brothers, so each cooked ham found its rightful
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lack of demand for its products, but because handle class timber became
impossible to source within an economic range. McIntyre’s flour mill changed
hands twice in the 1980s, but the 1989 earthquake put an end to the mill’s 90
years of operation in Hamilton. While William Cann <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
died in 1919, aged 64, the bakery continued to serve the people of Newcastle
until the 1960s, with bread ‘of exceptional quality, well baked, light
flavoured: none but the best flour is used in the baking…the supplies are
always fresh.’ (The Catholic Press, 28/8/1919). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Roofing, one of the businesses now on the old flour mill site. Jim had had odd jobs
as a young boy, well before he became an apprentice baker – as a ‘lolly boy’ at
Herbert’s Theatre, Islington spruiking Jaffas, Jubes, and Fantales; and selling
papers on the running boards of the trams on the Mayfield line. His mother was
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in Hamilton – Hudson Street Hum. At the former James Walker warehouse, 7 Hudson
Street, just opposite Sydney Junction Hotel and handy to the railway station,
it’s a social business enterprise set up by business partners Aleeta Cliff and
Suzie Galwey. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Aleeta says they were inspired by this
Hidden Hamilton blog post on Hudson Street and chose to name their business
accordingly. Pocket Design was commissioned to create a logo and strong brand
for the new business, reflecting its energy and vibrancy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Australian Spotted Gum (a major timber source used by Hely Brothers to make
tool handles) was the perfect reference we needed to create a logo and mural
which respects the history of the street and welcomes new beginnings.’<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Expect creativity, collaboration and
new ideas to flourish as Hudson Street Hum takes off. More at </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hudsonstreethum/"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.facebook.com/hudsonstreethum/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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information; to Neville Chant (former Hely Brothers Company Secretary and
Director); Jim Walker (apprentice baker at Cann’s c. 1950s, and Mark Humphries,
owner of Sunbow Roofing. Information from the earlier post on the Hamilton
flour mill was provided by Marie McIntyre. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Nevile Chant passed away in October, 2020. He was 101.<br /></span></span>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-54566454248242212682015-04-15T10:37:00.011+10:002021-08-23T09:05:34.738+10:00The Michelangelo Centre<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It had been his dream for a dozen
years or more – an opulent function centre in the heart of Hamilton, a dazzling
extravaganza of imported sculptures and marble floors, fountains, hand painted murals
in the fresco style, and 60 crystal chandeliers. Recapturing the splendor of 15<sup>th</sup>
century Rome and the Renaissance, the centre would also reflect the twin loves
of its creator, Giuseppe Risicato - his Sicilian home, and immortal Italian
artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.<span><a name='more'></a></span><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Marble
floors, golden columns and an imported replica of Michelangelo’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">David</i> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">in the foyer of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The Michelangelo Centre, Hamilton 1985<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Centre, on the corner of
Beaumont and Cleary Streets where the Chemist Warehouse now stands, was opened on Friday 23 August, 1985 by
Australia’s Foreign Minister Bill Hayden. A mural painted by Giuseppe, based on
Michelangelo’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Creation of Adam, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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than 200 guests, who feasted on whole roast pig, lamb, pheasants, turkey and
fresh fruit. They drank imported Italian wines and champagne served by toga
clad ‘Romans.’ The Hunter Orchestra and an Italian band entertained guests, and
$10,000 was raised for the Orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the foyer, and the menu offered was unabashed Italian – antipasto, a seafood
course, followed by two more courses, and dessert. The main course featured
several options including chicken baked in a champagne sauce served with potato,
champignons and peas; stuffed pork fillets or veal sautéed in wine and cream.</span></div>
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1986, the Centre was in deep trouble. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The owner of the building, Remo Bortolus,
took possession of The Michelangelo Centre from Giuseppe Risicato on 3
December, 1986. Rent on the premises was reported to be five months in arrears,
and the NSW Department of Consumer Affairs had begun investigating complaints
from people who had paid deposits of up to $600 for planned functions. An
application had been lodged in the NSW Supreme Court for the winding up of
Giuseppe’s company, Don Beppino Pastifico Pty Ltd. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Great War, in 1918. His home town was Vizzini, in the province of Catania, in
Sicily. <o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">His passion for art became evident
at an early age, and at 14 he became a student of the famous Italian artist Professor
Messina. He had a particular flair for religious art. World War II disrupted
his career path, and he spent time in France and Switzerland, returning to
Italy after the war ended. Employed by Pellegrini and Co. he began restoring statues
and refurbishing the art in Catholic churches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1948 Giuseppe came to Australia
where he continued his work for Pellegrini in Catholic churches, schools and
convents in country towns in eastern NSW, and in Queensland. On occasion, he
would paint a mural such as one for St Mary’s Church in Casino. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From time to time, he held exhibitions
of his paintings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">With his wife Zilla, Giuseppe established
himself in Hamilton, opening Giuseppe’s Photographic Studio at 52 Beaumont
Street. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Many Hamilton families have
beautiful family and wedding portraits taken by Giuseppe, often against a backdrop
of the white staircase in his studio.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">His interest broadened to fashion photography,
and in 1960 he founded the Giuseppe Risicato International School of Modelling
in Newcastle. He was a member of the Miss Australia Advisory Committee for 18
years, and became the official Miss Australia photographer. Generous at heart,
Giuseppe undertook fund raising for children with cerebral palsy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">When Giuseppe met former Prime Minister Gough
Whitlam at a function in Cessnock in the early 1970s, he was impressed by Mr
Whitlam’s knowledge and understanding of Italy. After the Government’s
dismissal in 1975, which affected Giuseppe deeply, he painted Mr Whitlam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Michelangelo Centre, and a tiny pastificio, tucked around the corner in Cleary Street,
selling Newcastle’s first fresh pasta. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Centre, he was 67. In a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monday
Profile</i> feature in the Newcastle Herald a month before the opening, he told
journalist Eric Aubert that even though he was working from 7 am to 11 pm to
get the ambitious murals completed, he loved every minute of it. To quote
Giuseppe: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that I love to do, so the time I spend on it is not really work.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interviewer how helpful and welcoming he’d found Australians in his early
years, that things began to go badly wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘I soon realized that I didn’t want to return to
live in Italy…the majority of my friends are Australians. Australians have
always been friendly, honest people but in Italy, about 95% of the people are
crooked.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">It was the last seven words of this quote that
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the Newcastle Herald that his office had received ‘literally thousands of phone
calls’ protesting the statement and the hurt and insult it conveyed. The
Newcastle Herald printed letters from other irate Italians, who wondered if Mr
Risicato included Newcastle’s Italian community in his ‘sweeping statement’.
Italian-Australians still had relatives in Italy, and some felt his comments
reflected badly on them all. One letter writer to the Newcastle Herald was
annoyed that ‘taxpayer’s money’ had been used to bring Mr Hayden to Newcastle
to open the Centre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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response. He would not have been the first interviewee to confide a little
carelessly to a journalist; nor would he be the first to claim he had been
‘taken out of context.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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victimised (for) a mistake made by someone else… <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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no point to degrade the land where you were born because you automatically
degrade yourself….<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Peter, I would not have created (the Michelangelo Centre) if I was not proud of
my country or my people.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Ricotta Street Light and Shadow
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Painting by Giuseppe Risicato, from
Risicato’s Sicilian Cookbook</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Courtesy of Professor David Frost</span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘I too am
Italian, I have a family in Italy, and I faced the same hurt and shock that (other)
Italians did when I read how this comment was reported in the newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">‘My comment
was a comment on the economic situation in Italy, where a large percentage,
perhaps 95%, of the unemployed youth are forced to turn to crime in order to
survive because they do not receive unemployment benefits like Australian
youth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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not a comment made about 95% of the whole Italian population. Once again, I
would like to apologise for any hurt and embarrassment that the report may have
caused.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[7]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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breakdown in communication between Mr Risicato and the Herald’s reporter.’ –
Editor.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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of the Centre went ahead, with even more guests than were planned for, and
bookings flowed, the damage had been done. While younger generations were happy
to enjoy the stunning facility for their functions, not so some of their
parents. They had been insulted, and would not easily forgive Giuseppe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from the financial losses, the personal pain and humiliation of the failure of
The Michelangelo Centre for this creative, sensitive man would have been
unimaginable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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himself up and begun again. His love of art, photography and food is skillfully
blended in a cookbook co-authored with his sister Palmina Risicato, with Professor
David Frost and Christine Mangala. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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photographed dishes, the book contains Sicilian paintings by Giuseppe completed
on a return visit home to Vizzini. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Giuseppe
and Palmina Risicato, with Christine Mangala and David Frost 1998, </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Aquila Books,
Enmore, Australia </span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title="">[8]</a></span></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="font-size: 11pt;" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Perhaps the business model of a function centre with
a singular appeal was at fault. Very likely the interior was over capitalized,
and recovery of money invested in costly marble, sculptures and fittings
impossible to recover. It would not have helped that the main base of potential
customers was antagonised at the outset. This would have wreaked damage that was
difficult to reverse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">It would be a grave error to view Giuseppe’s life
in terms of this one, unsuccessful venture. The fact that he embarked upon it
at the age of 67 tells us so much about this man – his vision, his passion, his
capacity to make his dream a reality, his skills as interior designer, artist
and photographer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">A pharmacy now occupies the site that was once the
Michelangelo Centre. No doubt a shop fit out of plywood and paint has covered
up the murals on the walls and the marble floor – if they are still there. I wonder
if, one day in the distant future, tradesmen might uncover a remnant of this
little corner of Renaissance Italy, and wonder what on earth they’ve stumbled
upon? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Giuseppe had kept eight large colour photographs of
The Michelangelo Centre. These he passed to friend and Hamilton resident Elisa
Sandrone with the words:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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home was sold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">It is with the help of Elisa and her daughter Luana
Sandrone that this story has been reconstructed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">The Michelangelo Centre is part of Hamilton’s history.
So too is its creator. This story honours the life and work of a richly
talented Italian/Australian. Giuseppe Risiciato dared to put his heart on the
line, to stand out from the crowd, and take a risk. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Acknowledgements</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Thank you to Elisa Sandrone and Luana Sandrone for
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The mural
was Giuseppe Risicato’s replication of a Michelangelo painting on the ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. In newspaper articles at the time of the
opening of the Centre, this mural is referred to as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Creation of Man</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Birth of Man,</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God Creating Adam. </i>My
research suggests it aligns most closely with Michelangelo’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Creation of Adam</i>, and titles used locally
somehow became confused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Giuseppe and Palmina Risicato, with Christine Mangala and David Frost 1998,
Risicato’s Sicilian Cookery, Aquila Books, Enmore, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Star, Lismore, Wednesday 15 December, 1954<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-43750005223269556522015-03-27T18:59:00.007+11:002021-08-11T11:33:08.291+10:00One bet each way - Tony and Clare Rufo<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the past decade, Hamilton residents Tony (Antonio)
and Clare Rufo have travelled regularly to San Donato Val di Comino, Tony’s
ancestral home town in Italy. Accompanied by family and friends, they fill a
dozen rooms in a large B&B, and revel in the festival atmosphere that takes
over each August. The population triples, as people make the journey home from far
afield. Not just within Italy, but from places popular with emigrating San
Donatese like Boston, New York, Toronto, and Ireland, for a month of parties
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an ancient past, 110 km east of Rome. It is partly inside the 500 square
kilometre Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo, famous for protected species such as
Marsican brown bear and the Italian wolf. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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the town square to their homes is an everyday challenge for its 3000 residents;
for newcomers, it’s a brutal initiation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><br /></span></span>
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years of age. Four of his 8 brothers and one of his 2 sisters had already migrated
to Newcastle, Australia. Tony remembers the family being invited by the
Australian government to join them, but his grandfather was reluctant to move
at that time. After his death two years later, the family was free to leave
Italy – Tony, his parents Andrea and Caterina Rufo, and the remaining siblings
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The large family, now reunited, established
itself in Hamilton, in a house in Elcho Street. Tony had been learning the
hairdressing trade after school in San Donato, and found work at Frank Morrin’s
barbers shop in Hunter Street, Newcastle. He picked up English – there were
classes for migrants, but he found the Western movies showing in the Regent
Theatre (also known as Herbert’s) in Islington much more entertaining. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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help, Tony was able to buy the business. In his mid-twenties, Tony married
Clare O’Neill, a country girl with Irish heritage from Bellbrook, near Kempsey.
Clare writes in her memoir:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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choice I made was to take my chances in the city. In 1965 I headed to Newcastle
with stars in my eyes and ten quid in my pocket! I had landed a job with Rundles
Manufacturing and Tailoring, and was over the moon….I was on my way.’ <span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title="">[1]</a></span></b></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">At Rundles she worked with one of Tony’s
brothers. It was a short step then to Tony. Describing how her siblings settled
closer to home, Clare continues:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As for
me, well I said that I marched to a different drum…In 1969 I married Antonio
Rufo, an immigrant from that old and worldly country, Italy. I was enraptured
by the family oriented culture of his people. Their fierce loyalty to the
little backwater that was their ancestral home matched my own. There was a
common bond, an affinity I hadn’t experienced before.’ </i><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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passionate about her husband’s homeland, loves their sojourns there, and wants
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Clare. ‘We have Dutch, Ukrainian, Polish, Portugese, Slovenian, an Australian,
three Italians – and one brother is a priest!’</span></div>
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his brother Basilio Rufo beside a Latin inscription in San Donato confirming
this, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">To</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">ny’s grandparents made a hard scrabble living
on the mountainous terrain outside San Donato, growing what they could for
their own needs, and to barter. Olives, grapes for wine, tomatoes and other
vegetables, and fruits such as figs were grown, but these days, the family land
is no longer productive. The floor of the Val di Comino is a rich agricultural
valley, with lush pastures. Its olive oil is reputed to be some of the purest
in Italy, and used in the Vatican.</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">The home
of Tony Rufo’s maternal grandparents, San Donato<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Tony’s first trip home was 20 years after he’d
left, in the early 1980s.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘To see the place I’d left so long ago,
thinking I’d never see it again – it tore my heart out,’ he says. ‘Now when I
go, I think – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m home again</i>. It’s
all so familiar. People I went to school with – looking just the same, only older!’ <o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Clare learned to speak the regional dialect
from Tony’s mother, and to cook the Italian way, by watching her. Tony’s and
Clare’s sons, Antoni and Jamie, were raised in an English-speaking household,
but have shown themselves able to quickly pick up Italian on return trips.<o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In August, San Donato is in a holiday mood. <o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Parties every night; we eat outside and
relatives and friends join us; all the women cook; a cousin plays the piano
accordion; there’s something happening all over the village,’ says Clare. ‘It’s
very relaxed and laid back.’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Even with the summer influx of people, San
Donato is a safe place to be. ‘There’s no crime – everyone’s family – they all
look out for each other,’ Clare explains.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Local police prefer to keep a low profile
during this time, for just this reason - everyone is a friend or a relative.
Police from neighbouring towns come in to ensure law and order prevails. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And despite the party atmosphere, there are no
drunks, and no brawls. That’s the difference.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Driving, as in Italy generally, can be a
hazardous occupation. Finding a parking space in narrow medieval streets not
built with modern cars in mind, is a constant challenge. Tony and Clare
remember seeing a car parked illegally in San Donato, under notice by a parking
inspector. The owner couldn’t be found, so a group of his friends simply
hoisted up the car and carried it to a safer spot. That’s Italy!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 2014, Tony and Clare stayed longer than
usual so they could experience the send-off of walkers on a 40 kilometre pilgrimage
over the mountain that separates Trasacco from San Donato. The pilgrimage
honours Trasacco’s patron saint San Cesidio. Mayors ceremonially exchange the flags
of their towns, and the pilgrims are accompanied by friends and followers for 2
kilometres through Trasacco, under a police escort. Walkers pause to sample
free cakes, fruit and snacks from roadside stalls.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A special date in the San Donato calendar is 7
August, the birth day of the town’s patron saint, Saint Donato. Clare and Tony
marvel at the way the town unites to commemorate and celebrate this day. Each
year, religious rituals meld happily with the pageantry of colourful
processions, noisy bands, and fireworks to create an event that people never
seem to tire of.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Saint Donato is known as ‘The Protector.’ When
an earthquake struck the town in 1986, everyone was down on the flat watching a
big football match. No one was hurt, but the houses clinging to the steep
mountainside were very badly damaged. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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authorities feared many had been killed. Coffins were transported into the town
– only to find its population alive and well. The Protector had saved the
people. Government funds poured into San Donato for rebuilding and renewal,
giving the town a welcome facelift.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-30316215270105980742015-03-15T13:10:00.008+11:002021-08-11T11:26:55.527+10:00Knowing the Gow family of Fettercairn, Hamilton<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">There was no celebratory clinking of glasses of
Scotch whisky when Fanny Gow, aged 42, gave birth to a boy in 1886, after 10
girls in succession. Temperance was the watchword of this prominent Hamilton
family. Ramsay Gow, Fanny’s husband, was a foundation member of the Sons of
Temperance, a member-only organization devoted to a life of abstinence from
alcohol. Fanny herself was a great worker for the temperance cause, though
her father was a publican.<span><a name='more'></a></span> <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It has always intrigued me that Ramsay Gow is
celebrated for his contribution to Hamilton, but it is his wife’s story that
really fascinates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1860. Her father Thomas Birkby was by then the owner of the White Horse Inn at
Maitland, but he had had a varied career, including as an overseer of convicts,
and a police constable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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named Walter Ramsay Stuart. Two years later, another boy William Allen Hodge,
was born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at a large Gow family reunion in 1996.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Her speech filled in many of the details that were missing when I wrote the
<a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/survival-of-stately-home.html">original blog post</a> on Fettercairn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I
imagine there was often an enormous sigh of relief that (my grandmother’s ) biological
clock had run down,’</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> said Vera. She continued:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘After
all the years of ceaseless childbearing, one would expect Fanny to retire
gracefully and put her feet up.’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Of their 13 children, nine had survived. Fanny
still had a large family to take care of, but in time, this energetic woman
wanted something more. Not just for herself and her family, but for the women
of Hamilton who sewed and knitted clothes for large families. She knew exactly
what was needed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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her 13<sup>th</sup> child, Fanny Gow embarked on a new career. As Vera
explained:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was expanding towards Hamilton and beyond, and Gow and Co., Drapers and
Milliners, Montrose House, Beaumont Street, Hamilton came into being, due to
her enterprise, energy and initiative – supported of course by Ramsay. ‘<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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store prospered, rivalling Scott’s and Winn’s in Newcastle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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August 1898<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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discount chemist now occupies this site<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1903, building began on the Gow’s new home,
to be called Fettercairn after Ramsay’s Scottish origins. Of a grand scale even
today, the Victorian style mansion would have been seriously impressive then.
At last, after 14 years’ hard work consolidating the business, the Gow family
would have a substantial home that stood as a testament to their success. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Ramsay Gow experienced great losses in his
childhood, learning early to be independent. He was born to John and Jean Gow,
a year after his parents arrived in Australia from Fettercairn, Scotland.
Together John and Jean had eight children, but their father John died when he
was just 44. Ramsay was 4 years old. His mother Jean died when he was 10, and
he went to live, not altogether happily, with his older brother David and wife
Margaretta. After leaving school, Ramsay first worked for David, but soon left
to join the Department of Navigation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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again, remaining in the Department of Navigation for 28 years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Navigation in 1901, he would have only six years of productive life ahead of
him. Apparently a quiet and dignified man, he was a JP, a member of the
Agricultural Society, the Hamilton Bowling Club and of course, the Sons of
Temperance. Ramsay devoted himself to acquiring and managing real estate, and
died in 1907 of a cerebral thrombosis. He was 67.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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little time together to enjoy what they had worked so hard to create.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Park to the Hamilton Municipal Council, to honour her husband.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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working in the store at the age of 14. He took over from Fanny around 1906, a
year before Ramsay’s death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">When I interviewed the four remaining ‘Gow
girls ‘ – former employees who as as young women had worked behind the counters
at Gow’s in the early 1940s and 1950s - they told me that Walter Gow was by
then the owner. Their interactions were mainly with the manager, Ray Hitchcock,
but they recall Mr Gow coming in at 10 am every morning to do his rounds of the
counters. More fascinating details about the inner workings of the store are <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/inside-gows-drapery-gow-girls.html">here.</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The store closed sometime in the 1960s. The
world of retail was changing, as were customer shopping patterns and expectations.
It appears Gow’s may not have kept pace with the times<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fanny
wasn’t a cuddly grandma, she seems to have been respected rather than loved.
Her grandchildren were in awe of her, and she would not allow them to use the
front staircase, insisting they use the back stairs. She was religious, strong
minded and energetic, and it is obvious she ruled her family and the staff of
Gow and Co. with a very firm hand..’</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lived in the grand house for 16 years as a widow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The history of Fettercairn is told in the <a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/survival-of-stately-home.html">blog post</a> ‘Survival of a stately home’ </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">including its time as a private hospital and a
boarding house for students from the country.</span></div>
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notice after the 1989 earthquake, when the then owner, Newcastle surgeon Dr
James Holley, applied to Newcastle City Council for permission to demolish it. He
had bought the property in 1978, and devoted almost a decade to its
restoration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">After heated community debate, permission was
refused, because of its local environmental heritage. Three or more years in
limbo followed, until in 1994, Fettercairn found a new owner – Newcastle
printmaker and photographer Philip Gordon. After 18 months of meticulous restoration
work, Philip was able to open the Lindsay Street Gallery. Upwards of 75
exhibitions would be staged there.<o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, the Gow descendants had scattered
far and wide, but the threat to their ancestral home had spurred some of them
to arrange a family reunion. Through<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
collection of letters left by Philip Gordon to the current owners of
Fettercairn, we get a sense of what the preservation of this house meant to the
family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fanny, and daughter of Ethel Alice (4<sup>th</sup> daughter) met Philip and
Theresa Gordon in mid 1996, following the reunion. The restoration of
Fettercairn was complete and first art exhibition had just been opened in the
Lindsay Street Gallery. With other relatives, Frances had been invited to see
the house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘There’s
no need to say that the Gow reunion was a great success in every way – and our
visit to my Grandparents’ home was a nostalgic experience. As I told you, I
stayed at Fettercairn many times until my Grandmother died – something no other
person at the reunion had done. It was a great experience to have you both show
us around and we were very impressed with the love with which you had so
painstakingly restored the grand old home and retained all the ‘bits and
pieces’ that you found during the restoration period. We were very touched with
the retention of the torn up and slightly charred letter written by my much
loved Aunt Katie (Harris).</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title="">[2]</a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Frances, daughter of Walter Ramsay Stuart Gow, wrote to Theresa and Phil on
27 August, 1996 thanking them for inviting them to the opening of the Lindsay
Street Gallery:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It was a
great occasion and you have a wonderful collection of paintings. As I told you,
we were almost reconciled to the thought that Fettercairn would disappear and
to have it restored so beautifully is almost a miracle. I’m sure Grandfather
Ramsay and Grandma Frances Gow would be delighted.’</i> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sentiment, speaking for all the Gow descendants:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">‘…we are
all delighted that people like you both, who have so lovingly restored our old
family home with great care and interest, are the new owners</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">.’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title="">[4]</a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 2000, Fettercairn changed hands again,
returning to its past use as a family residence. In September 2014,
photographer Craig Smith and I took a group of Lost Newcastle followers on a
walk to explore Hamilton’s historic past. Always mindful of the privacy of
people who reside in historical places, we were unexpectedly invited in by its
present owners. Everyone was in awe of the way they have taken custodianship of this beautiful house, which continues to be a grand
Victorian residence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">In the Fettercairn entrance hall is a glass case with memorabilia of the Gow family<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">This
photograph is of a Gow family portrait. Members have been identified <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">by
descendant Frances East<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Ethel
Alice Victoria 3<sup>rd</sup> daughter 1875-1959 (mother of Frances East)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Edith
Annie 2<sup>nd</sup> daughter 1869-1943<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Lucy
Theresa 4<sup>th</sup> daughter 1872-1966<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Adults seated:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Lydia
Frances 1<sup>st</sup> daughter 1867-1951<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Ramsay
Stuart Gow 1840-1907<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Frances
Theresa (Fanny) 1844-1923<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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next to Lydia (left) is Beatrice, 6<sup>th</sup> daughter 1881-1969<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Jessie
Milne 5<sup>th</sup> daughter 1880-1966<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Walter
Ramsay Stuart 1<sup>st</sup> son 1886-1962 (father of Vera Carter)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">William
Allan Hodge 2<sup>nd</sup> son 1888-1969<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Catherine
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph
by Craig Smith, taken of a photograph in Fettercairn 2014, courtesy of the current owners</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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you to the current owners, who shared documents and photographs
passed to them by Philip Gordon. Philip Gordon generously assisted Hidden Hamilton with information for the original post.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="font-family: -webkit-standard; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Related posts</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="font-family: -webkit-standard; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="font-family: -webkit-standard; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/survival-of-stately-home.html"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/survival-of-stately-home.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/inside-gows-drapery-gow-girls.html">http://hiddenhamilton.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/inside-gows-drapery-gow-girls.html</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div></span></b></span></div>
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Ruth Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08868262087684986677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4692608796399961672.post-66755925572085015092015-02-20T18:32:00.006+11:002021-07-16T11:11:37.845+10:00Born to perform - Elma Gibbs<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The pulling power of a high media profile was obvious even in the
Newcastle of the late 1930s. When ‘sweetheart of the airwaves’ Elma Gibbs
resigned to get married in 1942, thousands packed the Town Hall for her
farewell. When she married Charles Puddicombe, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newcastle Sun</i> journalist, at Wesley Church, Hamilton, the press of
people was so great that as she left the church, she ‘had to be carried to her
car over the heads of the spectators’. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">[1]<span><a name='more'></a></span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">The stellar ascent of Hamilton-born Elma Gibbs (1904-1973) began as a
child elocutionist, performing in eisteddfods and pantomimes at towns along the
north coast of NSW. What next but to become an actress? And later, a ‘Lady
Announcer’ at Radio Station 2KO in Kotara, Newcastle, where she shone for
almost a decade before marriage and children claimed her attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Elma’s career is fascinating enough in itself, as she was an exceptional
young woman with skills that equipped her brilliantly for work on stage and
radio. Her story springs to life though because of a collection of quality
photographs, many taken professionally as publicity shots for 2KO, that have
been treasured by Elma’s daughter, Caroline Morris. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Born in Lindsay Street, Hamilton to parents Caroline and Harry Gibbs, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Elma attended Hamilton Public School.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Elma learnt elocution and music as a child and performed in eisteddfods
and in pantomimes, often with her sister Aphra. Travelling as far north as
Lismore, she received a medallion from the Lismore Musical Society, in 1922. At
home, she acted and sang in the Newcastle Dramatic Operatic Society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">I can imagine the excitement in the Gibbs household when Elma received a
letter from the Managing Director of J C Williamson Ltd, asking her to ask her
parents if they would allow her to join their new Comic Opera Company. They
wanted her in the Chorus for a new production; she was to have an understudy;
attend singing lessons and be paid three pounds nineteen pence per week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had been ‘freely rumoured’ to be too daring for the city’s theatregoers, and
the script subsequently ‘watered down’. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">In Melbourne, the church-based United Social Questions Committee
attempted to have performances of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cradle
Snatchers</i> cancelled, on the grounds that the play was ‘degrading to the
sanctity of marriage, and was so suggestive in its inferences as to be unsuited
to the ladies of Melbourne theatregoers.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The Chief Secretary, Mr Prendergast, read a police report that said the play
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based at Kotara in Newcastle, advertised for a Lady Announcer. She applied, and
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Christmas time they all sent each other cards and presents. It sounds like a
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the fledgling radio station. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">In the late 1930s she made a public relations trip south for 2KO in a very
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Elma Gibbs says <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cheerio Newcastle </i>as she heads the old
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a libel’, </i>says Elma). We like the embroidery on the door Elma – in fact the
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showcases the station’s announcers, including Elma Gibbs. Conducting ‘Sessions
of Interest to Women,’ the power of her salesmanship on behalf of advertises is
highly praised, and she is described as -‘a…lady who brings an intensely human
touch to a very exacting task.’ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was the end of her radio career. Daughter Caroline Morris is not sure if 2KO
asked her to resign or if it was her own decision. The day before the wedding, a
farewell reception for Elma Gibbs at the Newcastle Town Hall attracted
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Wesley Church at Hamilton ... was so great the bridal party had difficulty
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">That seems to have been the end of life in the public eye for the
popular and talented Elma. With Charles she had three children – Caroline,
Charles (who lived only 24 hours) and David. While she did some occasional and
part time work, such as compering fashion parades, Elma did not resume her brilliant career. Yet sand never forgot those who helped her. In 1960 she organised a reunion to celebrate
the 70<sup>th</sup> birthday of her former Hamilton music teacher Mrs E J
Oliver Jones.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">Thank you to Caroline Morris for sharing her mother’s story and
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Newcastle Sun, Monday 19 January,
1942</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The photographs of Elma Gibbs and notes on her
career were passed to me by Newcastle historian Jude Conway, with permission of
Caroline Morris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Harry
Gibbs worked for Frederick Ash for some 60 years. Harry and Caroline had 7
children, three of whom died in 1902. Elma’s older brother Stanley, and younger
sister Aphra lived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">The
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Sydney
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4692608796399961672#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 115%;">2KO was founded in
1931 by Allen Fairhall (later Sir Allen) in Kotara and was licensed to the
Newcastle Broadcasting Company. The independent station launched from the
backyard of a resident's home, with the licensee's dining room being the only
studio the station had at the time. Within ten years 2Ko had grown from
Australia’s smallest to one of Australia’s leading stations, becoming its fifth
and most progressive market. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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