Book – The Way We Worked In Newcastle and the Hunter

Description In 2010 Newcastle Herald journalist Greg Ray chanced on a collection of several boxes of photographic negatives.  Bought at auction, the collection was a treasure trove of professional quality images of Newcastle & the Hunter Region, including press photographs from the late Depression and World War II years, long thought to have been lost.  Accumulated by the late Ken Magor, a fireman transport enthusiast in the Hunter area, many of the negatives had originated from the Newcastle Herald and Sun Newspapers, which appeared to have disposed of them decades before.  The rediscovery of these lost images has filled a gap in Newcastle’s pictorial record. These first images were published in 2010 in the book, Newcastle: The Missing Years.  Since then Greg & Sylvia have published six more books: Recovered Memories – a companion to The Missing Years, Changing Places – images from the 1900’s and the 1960’s to show the evolution of the Hunter Region, Destination Newcastle – showcasing images of transport, Newcastle Slideshow – a celebration of the Hunter Region during the golden days of slides & home entertainment, Images on Glass – brings to light many rare views of the Hunter in the late 19th & early 20th centuries and published just a few weeks ago, The Way We Worked in Newcastle and the Hunter. Printed in Newcastle, ‘The Way We Worked in Newcastle and the Hunter’, features photographs of Novocastrians at work – in Coal Mines, Steel Works, at the Wharf, on the Farm, Teaching, Nursing, Printing, Classing Wool, Retail, Dairy, Wine, Entertainment and Manufacturing. Mr Ray said, ‘This book, our seventh, is a celebration of work in the Hunter and its ever evolving nature.  Sylvia and I hope it will prove entertaining and informative to some readers, and that it will be a source of pleasant memories for those who spent some of their own working days in the industries and with the companies illustrated and described.’