Hidden Hamilton

‘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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

‘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...

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 ...

‘He knew every piece of fruit in the shop. If anyone touched anything, he could tell!’ So says Julie Lomax, whose father Norman (Gaetano...

Pina Deli has been serving the cosmopolitan community of Hamilton and beyond for 54 years. There have been eight different owners of the bus...