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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 City— A 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 sand— Antinomicity