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I was born on 24 September 1914 and grew up in Balmain, then a working-elass suburb ofSydney. A picture ofthe Balmain ofthose days may be useful because it is now becoming a very different suburb from what it then was. My family lived there until I was seventeen and it had quite an influence upon me. It is now, like other inner suburbs, after aperiod crowded with working-elass family living, becoming popular with the intelligentsia, artists and other people who want to live elose to the city. Old houses are being bought and renovated and real estate values have gone up. In my childhood, Balmain was very much a workers' suburb. It is a peninsula whichjuts out into Sydney Harbour and around its shore there were, and to a lesser extent still are, waterfront works!I0ps of various kinds-ship-building yards, ship repair yards and so on. There was also during my childhood a working coal mine and we used to watch the miners coming off-shift. The people who lived there were mainly tradesmen and labourers and their families, together with shopkeepers and others who served them. There were a few professional peopledoctors, dentists, bankers, solicitors, school teachers and public servants. My

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Author

Sir John Kerr (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349814039

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Biography