Kevin Ryan has lived in Paddington all his life. After getting involved with the playgrounds as a child, he spent most of his adult working life working at the playgrounds and has a legendary reputation amongst later generations in Woolloomooloo. He was interviewed in June  1995 by Sue Rosen as part of the South Sydney Social History Project.

Caveat: This video was shot on a Sony Hi 8 video recorder. It was not until 2010 that we could get the analogue tapes digitised. Despite careful storage in the intervening period there has been some deterioration in quality. While we have retained the original .mov files from the original digitization in the SRA Archive, by necessity uploaded here are .mp4 files. The video is raw and unedited, a primary source document recording the occasion.