Hidden Hamilton
Discovering stories about Hamilton - its people, places, past and present.
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...
27 August, 2015
An Italian childhood - Maria Martinelli
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‘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 t...
19 August, 2015
The Fern Street house
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Every weekend, from the age of two in 1938 until he was about 24, Brian Archer stayed at his grandmother’s two storey weatherboard house in ...
14 August, 2015
Mac's Fruit Shop
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‘He knew every piece of fruit in the shop. If anyone touched anything, he could tell!’ So says Julie Lomax, whose father Norman (Gaetano...
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28 July, 2015
Pina Deli - a community of food lovers
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Pina Deli has been serving the cosmopolitan community of Hamilton and beyond for 54 years. There have been eight different owners of the bus...
09 July, 2015
Northern Star Hotel
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‘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...
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21 June, 2015
Last days of the Newcastle trams
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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 w...
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05 June, 2015
From ship's mate to Hamilton station master
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When Harry (Henry) Frank Nesbitt was christened in 1858 at St Pancras Old Church, London, his godfather was Admiral Sir Charles Kelso, of th...
26 May, 2015
St Peter's Anglican Church, Hamilton
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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 ...
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