These videos were shot in 1994 and 1995 on a Sony Hi 8 video recorder. It was not until 2010 that we could get them digitised. Despite careful storage in the intervening period there was some deterioration.
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Loretto grew up in Newtown and Erskineville and particularly loved Newtown. Her story has a…
Betty talks mainly of family and domestic life: “We had no light, no gaslight; we…
Macdonaldtown Station was “amazing”: “from six o’clock, you would just see one stream of people,…
Maureen Oliver is Terry Murphy's sister and has also lived in Erskineville all her life.…
Josie’s family was relatively affluent. Her mother was a machinist, and her father was an…
Henry Brown was an official of both The Communist Party of Australia and the Liberal…
Mick Green was born in 1926 and grew up in Beaconsfield. His Dad was a…