These video interviews with Sue Rosen were recorded in 1994 and 1995 with people who had grown up in Woolloomooloo. 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, the razor gangs contrast with the Council playgrounds where many kids grew up. Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine  are mentioned. The interviews cover most of the twentieth century, providing a very personal account of the area, from the troops leaving and returning from all the major wars, the rats on the wharves, the influenza epidemic. These were tough times ...

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.