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Andrew McIntyres Tatterslls Hotel, West Wallsend. Image shows a group of people standing outside the Tattersall's Hotel, licensed to Andrew McIntyre. West Wallsend, NSW, 17 April 1906. The sign below the balcony reads: Licensed to retail fermented & spirituous liquors. Photographed by Ralph Snowball.
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…Image shows a group of people standing outside the Tattersall's Hotel, licensed to Andrew McIntyre. West Wallsend, NSW, 17 April 1906. The sign below the balcony reads: Licensed to retail fermented & spirituous liquors. Photographed by Ralph Snowball…
Interview with Raylee Allin
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…Although her love of books has been present from childhood, her career as a teacher at both primary school and TAFE level, has confirmed the important role libraries play in developing a love of reading, and the effect of this in people's lives.……Although her love of books has been present from childhood,…
Interview with Judy McQueeney, March 6, 2016
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…Another wave of people who started to come to the area were the engineers, … technicians, tradesmen and the all people that worked for the Commission. The … Commission became a big employer, and suddenly you got people who might … have been working in Newcastle moved down here.……Another wave of people who…
Masha Koren - Interview transcription
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…I have to try to learn more English and try to work out more with people that are here.……I have to try to learn more English and try to work out more with people that are here.…
Light on Morisset: Is this a nice place?
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…You could imagine that some of those people had come from worse backgrounds and can be contented enough maybe to be there.……You could imagine that some of those people had come from worse backgrounds and can be contented enough maybe to be there.…
Redhead - Aboriginal heritage
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…People from miles around came together to stop the darkness breaking through the surface of the earth. The people feared that the ever-burning fires deep in the ground would release the darkness again.……People from miles around came together to stop the darkness breaking through the surface of the earth.…
Talking About the Past Around Wyee
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…That was one of the reasons that a lot of people … moved away from the area. When the power stations started up there were a lot of people worked there, but prior to that it was nearly all timber cutting. When my late brother Cliff was doing the pulpwood………That was one of the reasons that a lot of…
Swansea
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…Population: … 1860 - no more than 65 people including up to 40 Chinese people, 10 Aboriginal people and 15 Europeans.……Population: … 1860 - no more than 65 people including up to 40 Chinese people, 10 Aboriginal people and 15 Europeans.…
Stories of Strength
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…A community that looks pretty similar to any urban center around the country but if you look a little deeper you'll see that the people that make up this region is the thing that makes it special. So who are the people who call Lake Macquarie home and what are their stories?……A community that looks…
Stoney Creek
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…Threlkeld misunderstood Dreaming “Stories” as many people still do today.……Threlkeld misunderstood Dreaming “Stories” as many people still do today.…

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