Over the past year I have been releasing a documentary mini-series about The Gap, repurposing an interview I did with local historian Richard Speechley back in 2013.
This is the third and final part of the series, detailing The Gap's development from a farming settlement to a residential suburb.
Richard Speechley goes into detail about the lifestyles of the suburb's residents and what they got up to for fun back in the day.
Watch it here…
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I grew up in the gap from the age of 15 left at age 25 never been back since.
Thanks for this, it looks great.
Kids in bikes in the mid 70s. Rode around the suburb visiting the developments that were razed bushland. I remember having “dirt bomb fights” – crouching down behind mounds of bulldozed dirt, picking up lumps of dirt. You’d lob them at your mates who were sheltering behind the neighbourung mounds.
There was also swimming in the creek a ways away from the primary school, down near the scout hut. I remember cutting my foot badly on a broken beer bottle in the rocks at the creekside and having to walk the 2km home, leaving a trail of blood.
Will check this, cheers!