Newcastle Earthquake 25 years on...

   The Newcastle Museum is a great venue and holds some remarkable regular exhibits of pop culture artefacts but also offers inspired seasonal or topical exhibits. The current standout [apart from paying to see the dinosaur one] is a simple series of black and white photos that feature the stories of a number of people who experienced the Newcastle earthquake in 1989 and were photographed at the time... it's a then and now large black and white photo exhibit.

So of course the baby in the photo is the 25 year old on the left of the new photo. The mum would have been wheeled out to Fletcher Park at Newcastle Beach I think...

We met Debbie because our daughters went to school together and it means I've been introduced to the hidden joy that is Lake Macquarie Art Gallery...

I loved the stories people shared... like a Police Officer on his first day [literally 2 hours into it]...

I know all three people in this photo. Mayor of Maitland Peter Blackmore, Leo volunteers Andrew Roberts-Thompson and Tony Buzek!!

Topics in the Newcastle Herald were looking for this young man and his date for the Relief Concert a few months ago...