Missing Untold Susannah Place, Sydney Australia 2000

A selection of quotes from the oral history of Fred Hughes nominating where the up to eight residents slept in the two up, two down with a kitchen in the basement These quotes were engraved onto oversized zinc labels and hung near the carbboard luagge labels used in the Museum’s interpretation. Other fragments from the oral historiesrecalled fragmetns of his life experiences in the house. at Susannah Place.

Fred and Charles slept upstairs in the back room. The two lodgers slept in the front room upstairs

Pearl and Thomas slept here.

Iris slept here in a cot.

Bertie slept here on a foldaway bed

Right under the window I had my bed. I could look right down the harbour. I could hear the bands playing.