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Transcript: Mr Carl Borowsky talks about 'bag town' in the 1920s

William Roberts, an original Anzac, and his family evicted from their Redfern home during the Depression 28 September 1934

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Transcript: Mr Carl Borowsky talks about 'bag town' in the 1920s

Mr Carl Borowsky, interviewed in 1986 for the Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960 project, came to live in Liverpool with his family in 1923. He talks about so-called 'bag town', which provided housing for families during the depression.

William Roberts, an original Anzac, and his family evicted from their Redfern home during the Depression 28 September 1934

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By

Lethington Maitland

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_00870 / Home and Away 870]

(Mitchell Library)

Economic Cycles