Memories of the Gully, Katoomba: Graham Cooper

Uncle Graham Cooper recalls visiting his grandmother, Ethel Cooper, at the Gully and how she taught him of culture, the way it operated as a community, and how that was dismantled by the building of the racetrack in 1957 where the Gully had been.

See related videos: Memories of the Gully: Carol Cooper

See images: Tin house in the Gully; Race track at the Gully; The Gully in 2012

Keywords: Identity; daily life; childhood; racism; values; law; change, city

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