http://eatingmywords.net/tendaysinchippendale a mini-residency at serial space Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:58:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://eatingmywords.net/tendaysinchippendale/2010/11/hello-world/ http://eatingmywords.net/tendaysinchippendale/2010/11/hello-world/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:43:18 +0000 http:/?p=1 Continue reading →]]> Jean Jurd was born in 1925 and grew up in Darlinghurst before moving to Woolloomooloo at the age of 11. She had a pretty traumatic upbringing in Woolloomooloo in the ’30s. The original interview is very difficult to watch – the tape is switched off a number of times as she breaks down recalling her mother throwing drunken parties fueled by sly grog and filled with part-time gangsters and sailors who walked right off the wharfs and into their house in Bland Street Wooloomooloo. This excerpt gives just a glimpse of what growing up in that environment might have been like.

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