Our City
The City of Sydney is characterised by diverse neighbourhoods. Their distinct personalities have developed over time as industries, social groups and topographies intersect and evolve. In these interviews, locals recollect the different places in Sydney in which they have lived: their significance, meaning and transformations.
Frank Wong
Growing up in Surry Hills
Joyce Lee & Ruby Young
Settling into life in Pyrmont
Billy Pascoe
Woolloomooloo local heroes
Beth Thorpe
Communism, unionism, and growing up in Woolloomooloo
Jean Jurd
My childhood in Woolloomooloo
Claude Williams
A phenomenal four sports career
Paul Patterson
Sydney through the lens
Dolun Teoman
Working with migrant groups
Jim Piotrowski
Saving Green Ban Parks
Marjorie Love
Till death do us part - my Darlinghurst
Mel Fitzpatrick (DJ Feisty)
Life on the 'gay mile'
Johnny Allen
The Bohemian world on our street; cabaret, conspiracy, clubbing
Jim McLean
Glass blowing, bottle caps & combs
Ernie Green and Ivy De Groen
The Wunderlich era
Joan Gamble
Joan loves glass
Lloyd Ross
Unionism, 1917 Strike & the railways
Stan Jones
Work at the Eveleigh railway workshops
Billy Wales
Victory in sight - the 1917 strike
Craig Johnston
Politics, Oxford St gay scene & Mardi Gras
Keith Mulhearn
Family life on Fitzroy Street in Newtown in the 20th century.
Jean Hendy
Domestic life in Newtown in the 1930s.
Les Cross
Spiritualism and religion on Dickson Street in Newtown.
Zena Sachs
Growing up Jewish in Newtown.
Brendan Doyle
Childhood reflections of post-war Newtown.
Agnes Phillips
From Scotland to Millers Point. A migrant's life in Sydney.
Tony Prescott
Preserving Millers Point and the high value of real estate.
John Ross
Life, work and community in Millers Point.
Patricia Phillips
The 'Battle of the Landladies'.
Eileen and Bill Pearson
Life, marriage and living in the millers point neighbourhood.
Ray Newey
Life as an active member of the Millers Point local community.
Jack Mundey
The Green Ban. A leader of men and protector of local history.
Adrien Meredith
Negotiating community concerns over Millers Point developments.
Harry Lapham
A lifelong home. Recollections of Millers Point upbringing.
Harold Kerr
The strength and significance of a Millers Point community.
Ronald Josephs
The priesthood, catholicism and friends in Millers Point.
Clarice and Robert Johnston
The changing face of Millers Point, a familys view.
John Hawthorne
A Tally Clerks post war Millers Point upbringing.
Boris Schkut and Nick Pastor
The Fragmented family life of the Millers Point Pasto brothers.
Flo Seckold
Life in a Maritime Services Boarding house in Cumberland Street.
Marie Shehady
31 years a landlord. Life in a Millers Point boarding house.
Maureen Stapleton
Millers Point. Loving its past, fearing for its future.
Beverley Sutton
One family and four generations in Millers Point.
Joan Taylor
Millers Point resident recalls her life in inner Sydney.
Judy Taylor
Crooks, raids and religion. Local culture in Millers Point.
Russell Taylor
Growing up along changes to Millers Point
Helen Xiros
The Millers Point Youth Centre, a community favourite.
Graeme Goodsell
Breathing life into the old buildings of Millers point.
Phyllis Flynn
Remembering the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge Opera House.
Joe Fitzpatrick
A GPO worker recalls a life Millers Point as a young man.
Joyce Feeney
Moving on from Millers Point.
Warren Cox
A Millers Point schoolboy turned labourer looks back on his life.
Millicent Chalmers
The good, bad and ugly side of life and work in Millers Point.
Dawn Caruana
A a working class life as part of the waterfront community.
Teri Carter
Living on the edge of Sydney's harbour
Russell Fitchett
Recalling an adventurous 50's childhood around Millers Point.
Shirley Fitzgerald
Millers Point history and factors influencing its development.
Bill Ford
Jobs, life and opportunities for the Millers Point local boys.
Des Gray
Our Millers Point playground
Gaylene Harkin
One of nine. A child from six generations of waterside workers.
April Harrison and Chantelle Shackleton
A youngster's perspective on living in an historic neighbourhood.
Brian Harrison
My aunt the activist. Remembering local figure Shirley Ball.
Frank Hyde
A Millers Points boy who found fame on the field.
Janet and Cathie Farley
A family reflects on their life as part of the local community.
Alice Brown
A family's long association with the locality of Millers Point.
Fiona Campbell
The social makeup of the Millers Point Community.
Kath Burgess
Remembering an adventurous childhood in Millers Point.
Betty Borg
Remembering 55 years in of living in Millers Point.
Michael Armstrong
A Millers Point family's association with the Palisade Hotel.
Amanda Barlow
A life born into a Millers Point wharf labouring family.
Lawrie Anderson
From Navy serviceman to Millers point shop owner.
Kathy Ingram
Life in and around the flourishing inner city of 1960's Sydney.
Grace Schwebel
Life in post war Newtown.
Dean Ingram
Remembering life growing up in Redfern and Waterloo.
Jane Lanyon
Childhood ingenuity and survival strategies of the Depression.
Harry Brennan
A in a working class life growing up as one of 12 children.
Robert Hammond
Characters and criminals. Life in the 30s and 40s Alexandria.
Beverley Hunter
Growing up in working class Chippendale.
Bev Karonidis
Growing up in pre-war Redfern.
Vivi Germanos Koutsounadis
From Greece to Glebe and beyond. A Sydney migrant story.
Ted McDermott
Recalling the culture of working class inner city Redfern.
Betty Moulds
The oldest daughter. A strict post war upbringing in Alexandria.
Maureen Oliver
Erskineville - life, learning, singing and bookies
Bill Schwebel
Living with childhood poverty in working class Erskineville.
Sir Nicholas Shehadie
Childhood, inner-city life and becoming Lord Mayor of Sydney.
Cliff Noble
Local boy turned Deputy Lord Mayor remembers a life in Sydney.
Loretto Thurgood
Growing up in post war Newtown and Erskineville.
Kate Dunbar
Life and times of an immigrant during the 1930s Depression era.
Frank Altoft
Life as a young UK migrant during the 1920's Depression era.
Anne Ramsay
Growing up in Redfern. Recalling a childhood in the 1920s.
Richard Mewjork
A very varied career. From Salesman to professional wrestler.
Mick Green
A son of a politician describes his childhood, life and politics.
Henry Brown
The many aspects of working class life in 1930's Erskineville.
Gavin Harris
Living a life in Kings Cross, Sydney's best known precinct.
Dario Lo Schiavo
Growing up a middle class Italian in 1920's Potts Point.
Nick David
Woolloomooloo shop owner reflects on business and his forebears.
Giovanni Lo Surdo
1960's life in a Woolloomooloo Sicilian fishing community.
Sydney Fennell
My local Alexandria. Childhood, family and friends.
Michael Toohey
The regeneration and disappearance of industry in 'old' Waterloo.
Greg Smith
Christian faith and the Metropolitan Community Church.