8 June 2022 is the 80th anniversary of the shelling of Newcastle, Australia, during WW2.

Lost Newcastle is now a proud supporter of the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. Your purchase will help support and encourage the preservation and study of the University’s regional history archives and collections through acquisition, documentation, conservation and digitisation. 

If you grew up in Newcastle, then you’re probably connected to the BHP story. In 1959, one in ten Novocastrians worked there. It’s an industry that above all others built this town. This film is about that industry but mostly it’s about the people who worked there, risked their lives and loved their jobs. It’s about community. It’s about inclusion, everyone was paid the same rate for the same work, white, indigenous, refugee and women were all equal. It’s about winning wars and building bridges. It’s about what we lost when it was over and the mess that was left behind. You may think you know this story, but I guarantee you don’t know all of it.