Newcastle: The Missing Years

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.