No One Told Us It Would Be Like This now on e-book
The e-book edition of No One Told Us It Would Be Like This has been released through Smashwords, and should shortly be available in the Apple iBookstore.
You can download a copy of the book at http://smashwords.com/user/englishst
***Now Available*** No one told us it would be like this
No One Told Us It Would Be Like This
A Collection of Writing
by Wesley Gleeson
Paperback
978-0-9870652-0-9
Now Available at:
http://www.blurb.com/books/1955223
Family History
Like many families around the world, mine is investigating the family tree. Who, what, where, when? Why, only God knows!
We have managed to pull a few pieces of juicy gossip out of the fire, the man married to a brothel owner, the second wife who was trying to kill the husband the mother who died of self inflicted strychnine poisoning, leaving her child to fend for himself on the banks of a river. There is the circus and the Tivolli theatre, Strathfield council, links to Ireland, Scotland, England, Italy and Sierra Leone.
Amongst what will become a steady stream of history postings, the family history spanning the Dunns, Duncums, Di Salvias, Gleesons and Pilgrims with a few others pitched in on along the way.
English Street, Camperdown
The old man grew up in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown. As Sydney grew out into the suburbs following the Second World War, the inner city started to die, and suburbs like Camperdown and Newtown started to look like ghost towns. The 80s saw many buildings in these areas abandoned and left derelict, and others were demolished. The case with the homes that lined English St was a little different. The Royal Prince Alfred hospital had the residents removed and the area flattened to make way for a multi level carpark. As it stands in 2009, and for the last 20 years pretty much, is that much of the land around on the block north-east of the English/Church St corner is still vacant land.
Corner of Layton St (now Church St) & English St, Camperdown, c.1930s.
View Larger Map The same view 80 years later.
