

Here he delighted in the dark streets, the back alleys, grimy corner shops, pubs and factories as well as the kitchens, parlours and bedrooms where crimes and accidents occurred.
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Fifteen years on, the Historic Houses Trust has reproduced to stunning effect a selection of more than 200 photographs from this extraordinary archive, casting a fascinating light on the shadowy underworld of inner Sydney in the years between the two world wars.Īuthor Peter Doyle spent three years in the cavernous loft of the Justice & Police Museum sifting through the hundreds of thousands of images in this chaotic, undocumented archive, selecting images and uncovering the stories which lie behind them. In the late 1980s the Historic Houses Trust rescued four tonnes of forensic crime negatives from a flooded warehouse in Lidcombe and relocated them to Sydney’s Justice & Police Museum.
