Videos: West

Slum Clearance – they’d got home: Neil Sainsbury

While describing the new housing commission estates that went up in his home area of Auburn in the 1950s ...

Greiner ended up dropping it (1988): Neil Sainsbury

Uncle Neil Sainsbury describes events in 1988 where church leaders and...

Shame - Blacktown Council: Sandra Lee and Gai-Sheree Marheine

During a recent press release Blacktown Council accused local elders of committing "ethnic fraud"...

Being Aboriginal in Katoomba: 1940s-1960s: Graham Cooper

Uncle Graham Cooper recalls his grandmother,...

Memories of the Gully, Katoomba: Graham Cooper

Uncle Graham Cooper recalls visiting his grandmother,...

The Irish of Clyde: Neil Sainsbury

Uncle Neil Sainsbury tells how many Irish convicts moved to the Clyde area...

The house of Robert and Vera Locke, the Gully, Katoomba: Colin Locke

Revisiting the Gully ...

Things are getting desperate, part 1: Chris Tobin

At the headwaters of the Grose River, Chris Tobin...

Things are getting desperate, part 2: Chris Tobin

At the headwaters of the Grose Valley, Chris Tobin, a Darug man, describes...

Welcome to Garguree: Colin Locke

At a memorial to the Gully, Uncle Colin Locke...

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