Our Place: Stories of Erskineville, Alexandria & Beaconsfield - Biographies

Macdonaldtown Station was “amazing”: “from six o’clock, you would just see one stream of people,…

Syd was an only child, which was unusual in Alexandria. His dad was a wood…

There were twelve children in Robert’s family, and they lived in a rented double-storey brick…

Betty talks mainly of family and domestic life: “We had no light, no gaslight; we…

Harry’s family was large. Twelve children survived out of sixteen. They eventually lived in nine…

Josie’s family was relatively affluent. Her mother was a machinist, and her father was an…

Bill Schwebel was interviewed by Sue Rosen in June 1995 as part of the South…

Cliff’s father was an alderman and the Hon. William McKell’s right hand man. Cliff describes…