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'Often when I am driving up and down the street, I'm seeing what it was like 30 years ago, or 40 years ago, and not what it is like now.' Robert Wuchatsch is one of those Whittlesea people who can see into the past. This book, A Community Portrait is a collective memory of this thriving and progressive community on Melbourne's northern fringe.
More than 140 people in the city of Whittlesea have shared their stories about what it has meant to live and work in this area.
These are the voices of the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the immigrant and long-time resident. When she arrived at South Morang in 1946, Anna Antonello could not believe her good fortune: 'Here I had water from the tap. Ane electricity! Oh my God, I feel like a queen!' And the Whittlesea area is and was so beautiful:
