Hidden Hamilton

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

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...
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...
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