30 April, 2014
Inside Gow's Drapery - the Gow Girls
The first trainload of migrants passing through Hamilton
waved wildly to the crowds of spectators gathered along Beaumont Street. Men
and women alike, the ‘new Australians’ stretched precariously out of windows
the length of the train, as if they wanted to physically touch the people
welcoming them. They were on their way from Newcastle to a migrant camp inland,
thence to a job, and hopefully, a new and better life.
15 April, 2014
Nina's IGA - Family Kiriakidis
If you walk into Nina’s IGA expecting a one-size-fits-all
suburban grocery, be ready to be surprised. Nina’s is anything but average.
12 April, 2014
From sandy track to Eat Street - the becoming of Beaumont Street
It’s the cosmopolitan Eat Street of Newcastle – and so much
more. Say ‘Beaumont Street’ and ‘multicultural eats’ springs to mind – not just
the first comers the Italians and Greeks, but nowadays Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, Himalayan, Mexican, Turkish, Lebanese and Fijian.
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