Our Place: Stories of Redfern & Waterloo - Biographies

Ann’s earliest memories of Redfern are of the “dirt and squalor” and hard times: “There…

Jane Lanyon was born at home in February 1920 in Balfour Street, Chippendale. She has…

Cathi’s family lived in her grandmother’s terrace house in Great Buckingham Street: “There were six…

Bev has lived in George Street, Redfern all her life; she reckons they’ll have to…

When Ted was a kid, “nobody ever trusted a policeman”, “there were always a lot…

Nicholas Shehadie’s grandfather, the first Orthodox priest in Australia, built the church on the corner…

Vivi talks about the Greek and Aboriginal people of Redfern. Her uncle and parents ran…

Kathy lived initailly on the South Coast and moved to waterloo when she was 12…