History Happened Here: Strange But True Tales From Australian Suburbia by James Cockington

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

A fascinating and irreverent look at odd places that were the unwitting sites for notorious events in Australia's history. Eighty-two accounts of locations in the Australian suburbs where something unusual or significant has occurred.

Throughout the land, many unprepossessing, uncelebrated buildings are associated with famous and infamous people and events. History Happened Here seeks them out and tells the strange but true tales behind the ordinary facades.

Find out about Ronald Bigg's hideaway house in Glenelg North, the bungalow where Tony Hancock had his last half-hour, the jail in Darwin from which all prisoners were released once it was bombed by the Japanese in WWII, the site of the Bogle-Chandler New Year's Eve party and much, much more. Each place has been photographed to reveal its full ordinariness.