Hidden Hamilton

Discovering stories about Hamilton - its people, places, past and present.

27 March, 2015

One bet each way - Tony and Clare Rufo

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Over the past decade, Hamilton residents Tony (Antonio) and Clare Rufo have travelled regularly to San Donato Val di Comino, Tony’s ancestra...
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15 March, 2015

Knowing the Gow family of Fettercairn, Hamilton

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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 succes...
20 February, 2015

Born to perform - Elma Gibbs

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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 ...
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06 February, 2015

Saving an AA Company house in Hamilton

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It continued to await its future, concealed in a battle axe block behind 195 Denison Street. This compact nineteenth century residence was o...
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28 January, 2015

Which David Murray was he?

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The repetition of given names, especially naming first born sons after their father or grandfather, is a tradition with centuries of history...
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12 December, 2014

A community celebrates its stories

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It wasn’t until I took my place near the lectern, ready to speak, that I saw the crowd that had been tucked around the corner, out of my lin...
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05 November, 2014

Bernie's Bar

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It was a yawning gap in my story about gay Hamilton of the 1970s and 1980s and the wine bar at the corner of Beaumont and Donald Street. ...
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21 October, 2014

The Queen's Arms on Cameron's Hill

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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 ...
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30 September, 2014

Deitz Hardware - a Hamilton fixture

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Guest blogger Sandra Hargreaves Sandra Hargreaves is a Novocastrian who lives and works in London. She is the granddaughter of Charlie Re...
18 September, 2014

The American's wife

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