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Do you know Edna and Harold?
• Issue No 87 • Newcastle’s favourite little community newspaper • July 2021 •
The back of this photo reads simply: Ed & Harold, Waratah
It is hoped that readers of The Local may help to identify the people in the photograph at left and those on pages 4 and 5. The photo of the couple at left has ‘Ed & Harold, Waratah’ written on the back. Does anyone recognise the couple who may have lived in Waratah from the 1930s to the 1950s? It’s a mystery posed to us by Hilary Oliver of New Lambton. Ms Oliver says the photos were developed from negatives found in a travel trunk belonging to the famous Wagnerian opera singer, Florence Austral. In the 1920s and 30s Florence performed in the opera houses of Europe and the United States. She was recognised as Australia’s greatest dramatic soprano of her time. Florence lived the last 16 years of her life in Newcastle. She died in a Mayfield nursing home in 1968. (continued on pages 4 & 5)
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