6 September 2009

True Crime walk around Waverley.
Led by Kimberly O’Sullivan Steward and John Ruffels
Free, but bookings essential.
Contact: Kimberly O’Sullivan Steward. Phone: 9386 7744
Email: kimberlyo@waverley.nsw.gov.au 

Kick off History Week 2009’s theme of ‘scandals, crime and corruption’ by visiting true crime scenes in Waverley. Your peaceful street may have had a more sinister past!  

7 – 20 September 2009

Exhibition: Kings Cross with sand: scandals, crime and corruption in Waverley.
Open during Library opening hours
Place: Level 1, Waverley Library
Free. 

Waverley is home to Australia's most famous beaches and our local area is an international tourist destination, but this 'playground of the Pacific' has a darker history. In this exhibition, Kings Cross with sand: scandals, crime and corruption in Waverley, held as part of History Week 2009, we explore Waverley's underbelly, exposing our local area’s crimes, scandals and corruption. As a local historian remarked pithily “Bondi? It's just Kings Cross with sand!” 

9 September 2009

Book launch: Crooks Like Us by the author, Peter Doyle.
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Place: Theatrette, Level 1, Waverley Library. 
Free, no booking necessary. 

A joint event between Waverley Library and the City of Botany Bay Library. Peter Doyle, crime novelist and author of City of Shadows, gets down and dirty at the launch of his new book Crooks Like Us drawn from the vast collection of crime photography created by the NSW police between 1912-1960. 

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