Hidden Hamilton

'The secret of success,’ Danny Franco told his three sons, ‘is to always be the first.’  A pioneer of Newcastle catering and hospita...

My personal quest to understand Hamilton began in 2013 when we moved here to live. I shared my discoveries through my Hidden Hamilton blog ...

It’s time to press the ‘pause’ button for the Hidden Hamilton blog. In just over two and a half years, 69 stories have been written and...

‘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...