Hidden Hamilton

He was a man of influence in Hamilton – James Cameron. So influential was he that the locality boasting his hotel, the Queen’s Arms, became ...

Guest blogger Sandra Hargreaves Sandra Hargreaves is a Novocastrian who lives and works in London. She is the granddaughter of Charlie Re...

It was a house everyone admired – an elegant, two story residence at the west end of Hamilton – belonging to the Americans. A medical doctor...

There’s a big event coming up, for everyone who loves Hamilton, has a connection with Hamilton, or who simply wants to know more about one o...

The secret ingredient to Blue Heaven milkshakes is one that Mervyn Roberts has kept all his life. ‘And it will die with me’, he chuckles.

It had begun in the kitchen and lounge room of Eric Blatchford’s parents’ home. Eric was just 20, and unable to afford his own place, had br...

‘When my son was in London’, Bill Bozinoski tells me, ‘he went to where the Aussies were. Here in Newcastle, I go where the Macedonians are’...

It was an announcement that struck at the heart of the tight-knit community of Italian migrant families that had formed around the Italian C...

Acrobatic dogs balanced on two front legs on impossibly slim posts, somersaulted, danced and waved goodbye. Responding to the skilful hands ...

The first trainload of migrants passing through Hamilton waved wildly to the crowds of spectators gathered along Beaumont Street. Men and wo...