Slum Clearance – they’d got home: Neil Sainsbury

While describing the new housing commission estates that went up in his home area of Auburn in the 1950s Uncle Neil Sainsbury recalls that his paternal grandparents were also removed from the slums of Redfernto Wentworthville and thus his Aboriginal grandmother made home to her country.

See images of the Redfern slums in the 1930s

Keywords: Identity; suburban living; values; moving; Redfern; change, city

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