23 November, 2015
Search for the station master's house
Since I first discovered the trove
of online digital images available through Newcastle’s cultural collections[1]
I have been fascinated by the photograph of the Hamilton station master’s
house. Damaged and discoloured with age, the cottage with three people standing
in front had an other-worldly quality. I wondered where exactly it was –
perhaps it still existed – and who those individuals were.
26 October, 2015
Gregson Park
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 the colourful expanses of spring
flowering annuals and roses, wander the meandering paths, or watch kids in a
playground protected by ancient fig trees.
22 September, 2015
Music in the genes - Betty Lind
When Disney’s Beauty and the Beast opened in Newcastle in 2006, three generations
of the Lind family were involved in its production. Carolyn, daughter of Betty
Lind and her late husband Frank, directed. Another daughter Kathryn played
Madame de la Grande Bouche. Three of Carolyn and Kathryn’s children played
‘enchanted objects.’
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