These video interviews with Sue Rosen were recorded in 1994 and 1995 with people who had grown up in Erskineville and Alexandria. While they talk of their childhood, they also talk about their parents' experiences - at work, in the community, encounters with the police and their social lives. The characters of a neighbourhood are brought to life - Long Tak Sam - a particularly lanky policment who would pursue you throught the streets. There are accounts of the rich theatre life, of sneaking into shows, and the picture threatres, the pubs at closing time, the SP bookies. The interviews cover most of the twentieth century.

Associated with this project is the book We Never Had a Hotbed of Crime! Life in Twentieth Century South Sydney, which is also available for purchase as are biographies distilled from the interviews.