03 January, 2018

Signing off...

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My work to bring to light the hidden history of my suburb, Hamilton, is complete. It began on Friday, 17 May, 2013 with my first post on ...
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11 November, 2016

Danilo's Restaurant and the secret of success

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'The secret of success,’ Danny Franco told his three sons, ‘is to always be the first.’  A pioneer of Newcastle catering and hospita...
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21 May, 2016

'More Hidden Hamilton - further stories of people, place and community'

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My personal quest to understand Hamilton began in 2013 when we moved here to live. I shared my discoveries through my Hidden Hamilton blog ...
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06 February, 2016

It's time to press 'pause'...

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It’s time to press the ‘pause’ button for the Hidden Hamilton blog. In just over two and a half years, 69 stories have been written and...
09 December, 2015

A community finds its place - the Lettesi story

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‘Why did we leave? Why wouldn’t we leave? We had lost everything.’    In the Hamilton home of Tony (Antonio) and Pina D’Accione, I am listen...
06 December, 2015

A discovery place - Hamilton Public School

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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...
23 November, 2015

Search for the station master's house

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Since I first discovered the trove of online digital images available through Newcastle’s cultural collections [1] I have been fascinated b...
26 October, 2015

Gregson Park

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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 t...
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22 September, 2015

Music in the genes - Betty Lind

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When Disney’s Beauty and the Beast opened in Newcastle in 2006, three generations of the Lind family were involved in its production. Carol...
04 September, 2015

Hamilton Baptist Church

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It seems only natural that the early Hamilton Baptist Church would conduct its Christmas Day service on a summer evening in the much-loved G...