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Tin City

Tin City is a real location in Newcastle, New South Wales, named across the written works of C. W. Smith. Corrugated-iron shacks, Stockton Bight dunes. It is plotted on the Literary Atlas of Newcastle among the city's suburb & rail sites.

Across the works

A Complicated Surgery…

A Depression-era collective of corrugated-iron homes in the dunes — twinned, uncannily, with a settlement in the Shanbudia desert.

a makeshift collective hidden on one of our local beaches just north of Newcastle and given the nickname Tin CityA Complicated Surgery…

Antinomicity

'Eleven shacks half buried in the sand, made of corrugated iron, tea tree and solar panels' — he meets a couple living there.

an area referred to as Tin City, a collection of eleven shacks half buried in the sandAntinomicity

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