Presented by Simone Taylor as part of the #widerlocalstudies Australia wide videoconference 2 May 2019

1. Tin Town: Researching
Dubbo’s lost shanty town
Local Studies Online Meeting
by
Simone Taylor
2 May 2019

2. An aerial view of Tin Town c.1946
Courtesy of the Daily Liberal, 2003

3. Today Tin town is now a suburban subdivision in
East Dubbo.
The old Molong Railway Line
bordered Tin Town
Strickland Street was the heart of Tin
Town
Photographs courtesy of S Taylor

4. Macquarie Regional Library
Collection
Communal taps
supplied water to
the Tin Town
residents
East Dubbo Plan of Occupations c.1930
The huts of Tin
Town?

5. Newspaper articles deploring the
conditions of Dubbo’s Tin Town area.
Courtesy of the National Library of Australia

6. This image, provided by Marie
Fardell, is one of the only images
of Tin Town I found during my
initial research
Jack Fardell’s family home
in Tin Town was warm and
comfortable
Image courtesy of M Fardell

7. Making the ABC
news
ABC News website

8. Images courtesy of D Huckel
These images of Thomas and Hannah Hartes’
home in Tin Town were donated to the library
following my Tin Town Presentation.
Rare photographs of Tin Town