The tendency of the Hunter River to overflow its banks has always been a source of anxiety to the residents in its vicinity. This episode tells 3 stories of its many flood occurrences. One on 1864, one in 1870 and the other, the aftermath as told by a witness, of the 1955 flood at Maitland. Included, is the story of Tiddalick, based on a traditional Aboriginal Dreamtime story and information about some of the Aboriginal sites in the Hunter Valley.

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Trove newspapers: - https://trove.nla.gov.au

Lone Harvest: By Kevin Macleod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Cold Isolation: from Free Music for non-commercial use from https://feslyanstudios.com

Image: Australian Town and Country newspaper - 14 May 1870

'Ruins at back of High Street Maitland'

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