‘The money’, she responded without a second’s pause, ‘was in Donald’s Corner’.
29 December, 2013
The story of Donald's Corner
When you were growing up in Hamilton’, I asked memoir writer Margaret Colditz ‘where was the money?’
09 December, 2013
A Mine Manager's retreat - the AA Company house
Status is having a house on the crest of a hill, fireplaces in every
room, and your own underground water tank so you don’t have to queue to draw water with the wives
of miners.
Status can also mean responsibility - lying awake, desperate for sleep, dreading the first light. Imagine that your boss, Superintendent of the AA Company, [1] has commissioned you to bring in ‘scab labour’ from Victoria and South Australia, and to destroy the coal miners union, once and for all.
Status can also mean responsibility - lying awake, desperate for sleep, dreading the first light. Imagine that your boss, Superintendent of the AA Company, [1] has commissioned you to bring in ‘scab labour’ from Victoria and South Australia, and to destroy the coal miners union, once and for all.
25 November, 2013
The making of Hamilton
There was not a
decent street or footpath in Hamilton; they had creeks and watercourses in
every direction.[1]
Truly, the place looked deserted and miserable, no one to be seen but poor old Murphy and his double team dragging a barrow load of coal through the yielding sands into which the wheels of his dray....were sinking almost to the axle.[2]
These were just some of the challenges facing Hamilton’s first Municipal Council in 1872.
Truly, the place looked deserted and miserable, no one to be seen but poor old Murphy and his double team dragging a barrow load of coal through the yielding sands into which the wheels of his dray....were sinking almost to the axle.[2]
These were just some of the challenges facing Hamilton’s first Municipal Council in 1872.
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