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Where do I find this 'Yellow Brick Road?!"

That sounds too good to be true! I've done it in reverse, turning left off the motorway just before it hits Parra Road (left at Concord Rd?) then right and through Five Dock, but I've not tried it going TO Penrith. Today, I went back to the train, much more relaxing!

Jobless father of-nine says he'd 'go to London and steal from rich people' if his huge handouts ended. I have not copied the article, just LOVED the headline. Actually a man after my own heart.

Dave the idiot has been driving from Surry Hills to Penrith this week, with one of my most pleasurable (not) drives today, to Bankstown first via Parra Road, Liverpool Road/Hume Highway, then on to Penrith via Hume Highway, right at 'Meccano' interchange onto Woodville Road, then (stupidly) not left onto the Western Motorway, but via the Great Western Highway, all in searing heat, until I relented and closed the window and put my aircon on full-blast.

I KNEW you weren't talking to me! (It's because I'm old and boring!) I was just moved by all this talk of 'Liverpool' to retreat to my 'throne room' with my chart book to peruse '1963' again, when I got a 4-speed record player for my 9th birthday on Anzac Day (though I'd never heard of Anzac Day then) and I bought 'Please Please Me' & 'She Loves You.' (and 'Like I've Never Been Gone' by Billy Fury & 'Glad All Over' by The Dave Clark Five.') Fifty years ago! It's ancient history now. The song I ended up singing in the shower was not The Beatles but 'From a Jack to a King' by Ned Miller. I remember talking to a bloke at Royal Mail who was retiring and I asked him: 'What year did you start?' '1963.' 'Before or after The Great Train Robbery?' 'Before.' 'What Beatles' song was in the charts?' 'Please Please Me,' PS I don't think I have 'Waterloo' on my spreadsheet of Sydney 'burbs' for PIO members so it must be time to both resurrect and re-activate that!

Me? 'MR2?' Can't be me, I'm not from Manchester. (Isn't it a suburb of Liverpool?) (My knowledge of UK geography is rather limited when it comes to north of the Thames (although I was born in South Shields.) I've been in Surry Hills, working or living, since 1981, albeit with a twelve year 'holiday' back in Southampton, and have owned my unit in Elizabeth St since 1987. Where does Redfern end and Waterloo begin? I walked down Regent St/Botany Road heading for Alexandria and I think it's somewhere down there. The Iron Duke, Macdonalds on McEvoy St, they are Waterloo? There's another pub about 50 metres past The Iron Duke? What is its name? And The Cauliflower. What suburb is that in!?

'Liverpool' is actually an old Aboriginal word meaning 'live by the river!' For some reason, thinking about places with the same name reminds me of my first time going to London to see Spurs play and I (naive young country bumpkin) went to Tottenham Court Road.

One of my few reasons, perhaps the only one, to go back to England, is to do The Beatles tour. Did you know that Liverpool in England is named after a town in New South Wales!!!!

One of my few reasons, perhaps the only one, is to do The Beatles tour. Did you know that Liverpool in England is named after a town in New South Wales!!!!

As a Beatles (and Gerry & The Pacemakers, Searchers, & more up to date, Echo and The Bunnymen) 'tragic' I've always had a soft spot for Liverpool. Reminds me, I must try and get a copy of Gerry and The Pacemakers' movie 'Ferry Cross The Mersey', although, come to think of it, I think bloody Jimmy Saville has a small part!? I don't even mind the two (or is it three, including Tranmere?) footie teams, unlike the ones from just down (or up) the road. I just bought a red T shirt in Vinnies with 'Liverpool - probably the finest city in the world' on the front.

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I was only there for six weeks before my parents moved to Hants as my dad got a job at Fawley Refinery.

On the other hand, I was born in South Shields, and my mother was a Geordie, so perhaps some of that northern grit rubbed off on me.

I'm not a northerner! I'm a 'Mexican!' The only place further south than me was the Isle of Wight.

I did not realize that 'patriotism' was a bad word? 'To love or defend one's country sound like noble sentiments to me. Real estate agents have always been more than enthusiastic in promoting the buying and selling of property but then again Aussies LOVE their homes. Judging by the numbers of estate agents in the UK, it seems equally as popular there. The only differences I noticed in Britain was that selling by auction did not seem as popular and neither are 'open homes.' Perhaps if more Britons HAD done more 'stopping and questioning' whether Britain was good, the GFC might not have hit so hard there. How many of the big four Aussie banks had to be propped up by the Aussie Government?

You should be OK then as March is often nicer, not so humid. I intend to swim throughout the year again.

I came back to Sydney in 2008 after twelve years in the UK. I woke up from my Sunday siesta thinking 'Dave, you idiot, you should have stayed with Royal Mail for a few more years.' It's been hard for me to get work since I came back, just the odd casual contract. I had no problems settling back in though as I'd never severed my links, - Medicare cards, bank accounts, etc. Just had to evict my tenant and move back into my old home in Surry Hills. It would be the same if I did go back to the UK again too, evict my tenant, move back into my home. It's like emigrating all over again in some ways though, doesn't matter which country you are going to, so you might have some problems adjusting. Most people seem to cope after a few months but a few can't put down new roots. It might be worth renting your house out rather than selling and you'll get an income from it too. I don't have any problems getting on with Aussies or Pommies. Most Aussies like drinking beer and watching footie, so that's not too onerous a chore to 'convert' other than learning the rules of a new code! Just try not to patronise them! They are not very courteous on the roads though. In the UK it's almost unheard of for a driver not to give you a wave if you give way to them. It's just the problem with getting a job that has got me down a bit, although I also enjoy being a beach bludger - which is where I'm going now at 6.30pm. Stuff that Pommie snow and ice! It was fun when I was a kid but as an adult it terrified me!

I worked for The Aussie Customs Service a few years back and there was a regular flow of outraged people coming in demanding to know why they were charged duty on presents they sent from Italy - Murano Glass - UK - Wedgewood - Ireland - Waterford Crystal - etc. Some of those companies would pack goods up separate parcels to post back to OZ - did not matter as we soon put them all together. Every country charges customs duties - that's the way it is.

Lots of people SAY they're going to write a story but not many actually do! Funny, I was down the pub the other night, got talking to the landlord, and he told me he is writing one, has done 200,000 words already. I have kept a diary more or less since 1978 and I always remind myself of that when I say I have not got a book in me!

You should write (or type!) your life story Bob. The extracts I have read are very vivid so I think you have a story teller's 'knack' to bring things alive. - 'Show' not 'Tell'' for instance. Or why not create a blog. Someone on here told me to do it and I made a start using 'Blogger' which is free. Take a look at this link to a book called 'Diary of a New Chum' written by a French guy who came out here over a hundred years ago. He had the knack to bring the bush alive too. [PDF] Diary of a New Chum

PPS forgot to mention that the BBC article mis-spells Surry as Surrey! BUT I'm sure one of the pubs spells it with an 'e' AND there is a SurrEy Hills in Melbourne!

Surry Hills market is on the first Sat of the month (I think!) in Shannon Reserve on the corner of Crown & Foveaux Sts. You can walk up Foveaux St from Central Station (northern end) although it's a VERY steep street there. I'd prefer to walk up Devonshire St from the southern end then turn left into Crown OR walk from Oxford St along Crown. Either way it's a pleasant & intereresting walk. Stop and ask a few passers by if they know where Frog Hollow is? I'd be interested to know if many don't know! I only came across it by accident and because of my obsession with reading signs. (Corner of Riley & Albion I think.) I must read those books by Ruth Park too. When I was awarded my degree at UNSW in 1994 she was awarded an honorary degree in the same ceremony. Thanks for that link - I'll look at it in a moment. PS Just read your link to the BBC article thanks. Very interesting. Norman Bruhn? met his demise on Underbelly last Sunday. I must do the Darlinghurst part of the tour as I don't go that often on the north side of Oxford St. I've been driving thru those streets - Bourke,Crown, Palmer,Liverpool on the way home from the beach but it's no good trying to sightsee from a car! I did go to a new (for me) bar about 50m down Crown St from Oxford on the East Sydney side, could be corner of Liverpool - God it irritates me when I don't know the bloody street names! Anyway it was a very cool place, lots of young bloods and their girls.

I posted this article on a thread about the new series of Underbelly but it's such a good description of Surry Hills (well, I think it is) I thought I'd put it here too. Am I allowed to do that? Crime czars haunt the Hills Frank Crook From: The Daily Telegraph April 11, 2008 12:00AM [/url] Squalor ... urchins in Hart St, Surry Hills, in the early 1900s. Source: The Daily Telegraph TODAY the only trace of Frog Hollow is a pretty little park that stands as a reminder of the toughest suburb in Sydney writes Frank Crook. There was once a place in Sydney called Frog Hollow, where no respectable citizen would ever enter. It was Sydney's worst slum, of narrow lanes and dank ramshackle houses with little ventilation and defective drains and sewers. Disease and poverty was rife in Frog Hollow, where criminals flourished. Prostitution was conducted in the open; sly grog shops plied a nightly trade; gangs of toughs lingered in alleyways preying on the unwary. Kate Leigh, the legendary crime queen, once held court in Frog Hollow before going on to bigger if not necessarily better things in the sly grog, cocaine and prostitution business. Frog Hollow, demolished in the 1920s, was in the heart of Surry Hills, then the toughest suburb in Sydney. Today the only trace of Frog Hollow that remains is a pretty little park called Frog Hollow Reserve that sits primly on the corner of Albion and Riley streets. It is marked by trees, lighting and landscaped gardens. It stands as a reminder of the early, deprived days of Surry Hills, along with old sepia-toned photographs of dingy tenements and barefoot children. There the poor of Sydney lived and were forgotten as the metropolis grew around them. The transformation of Surry Hills began in the 1960s, when artists, writers and students moved in to the area, bunkering down in its terraces and decayed mansions. It brought a touch of bohemia to an area that was still a no-go area for many citizens of Sydney. The changing face of the area was completed in the 1980s when many of the suburb's terraces were restored and the newly-affluent discovered the convenience of inner-city living. Tomorrow sees the start of the ninth annual Surry Hills Festival, held in Prince Alfred Park. It has markets, bars, fashion parades, dog shows and entertainment for young and old. It is a celebration of a suburb and a far cry from the desperate early days of Surry Hills, when gangs such as the 40 Thieves and the Big Seven roamed its narrow streets. Today the area is studded with bars and restaurants, antique dealers, fashion outlets and art galleries. Its pubs, including the Dolphin, Clock, White Horse and the Trinity all in Crown St, and the Norfolk in Cleveland St, are elegant and civilised watering holes. Walk down Crown, Oxford, Fitzroy, Devonshire and Cleveland streets and visitors can take their pick from modern Australian, Italian, Japanese, French, Indian and Thai cuisines. Few newly-arrived tourists would have an inkling of the area's grubby and violent past. But Surry Hills was not always the down-at-heel area it became. In the early days of the colony it was mostly farmland, owned by Major Joseph Foveaux, after whom Foveaux St is named. It was known as Surry Hills Farm, named after Surrey Hills in England, with an alteration to its spelling. Terrace houses and workers' cottages were built in the 1850s to cater for those who laboured on the wharves and later the factories, foundries and light industry that sprang up in the area. In the days before public transport, it was important for workers to live near their workplaces. With the coming of the railways, the more affluent citizens moved from the inner-city to the newly-established suburbs. So Surry Hills became a working-class suburb, home to generations of Irish immigrants depicted so vividly by the author Ruth Park in her novels chronicling the life and times of the Darcy family, impoverished exiles from the bush. Park and her novelist husband D'Arcy Niland, author of The Shiralee, lived in Surry Hills, where she wrote The Harp In The South in 1948 and Poor Man's Orange the following year. They were not the only notables to make their home there. The great cricketer Victor Trumper learned the game in the streets of Surry Hills. John Norton, the newspaper tycoon who founded Truth newspaper, was the state member for the area between 1904-6. Eddie Ward, a Labor man with a reputation as a doughty battler for the workers, was once president of the Surry Hills branch of the Labor Party, before holding the federal seat of East Sydney from 1932 until he died in 1963. Ward served with and often fought against Labor prime ministers Jim Scullin, John Curtin and Ben Chifley. Cyril Angles, who, along with Ken Howard was Sydney's leading race caller, was a Surry Hills boy, while Arthur Stace, who gained fame as the man who wrote the word ``Eternity'' in crayon on the pavements of Sydney, lived in Surry Hills in the 1920s. He held down a job as cockatoo or lookout for a two-up school and also worked carrying liquor from pubs to local brothels, one of them run by his sister, before he reformed. In later years, when the area gained some respectability, the artist Brett Whiteley bought an old warehouse and converted it into a studio and exhibition space. He lived there from 1988 until his death in 1992. People can still visit Whiteley's studio in Raper St and inspect his unfinished paintings, art equipment, photographs, furniture and sketchbooks. A number of houses, terraces and other buildings in Surry Hills have been registered with the National Estate, including the original premises of Cleveland St Public School, St Michael's Church in Albion St and the former police station in Bourke St. Leigh's legacy remains today. The premises of her old sly-grog shop still stands in Devonshire St, where thirsty customers, locked out of pubs at 6pm, queued to buy beer at outrageous prices. The running battles between Leigh and her arch enemy Tilly Devine still form part of the suburb's folklore, along with the razor gangs of the 1920s and criminals such as Frank ``The Little Gunman'' Green and the violent Guido Calletti. There were also the glamour girls of the street, such as Nellie Cameron, who had Green as her pimp, and Dulcie Markham - blonde and gorgeous, whose gallery of male protectors all came to sudden and violent ends. Leigh and Devine were both portrayed by Ruth Park as a single character in The Harp In The South and Poor Man's Orange. Park described the suburb where she once made her home as ``clinging to the proud skirts of Sydney like a ragged, dirty-nosed child''. The flash of the razor has long departed the streets of Surry Hills and the old lags who once populated the area have been swallowed up by history. Restaurants such as Long Grain, Billy Kwong, the Bentley and Jazushi usher well-dressed patrons through their doors. Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine would never recognise the place