Flashback to the hot metal days in the hot and leaky in the Wet early former bank building in which the Northern Territory News , Smith Street , Darwin, was produced, Jim Bowditch one of its editors.
Seated at the linotype machine on the right is the late Arthur Wright , who came to the Territory in 1920 and had vast knowledge about Darwin's lively union past and its many colourful characters.
Others visible in the factory and at the stone could include Brian McKnight, Bobby Wills, Kevin Kelly , David McDonald .
There was a time when Darwin had two banks -one made from solid stone, the other a prefabricated corrugated iron structure , thus called the Tin Bank. The above framed photograph of the building is from the Vern O'Brien Collection in the Northern Territory Genealogical Society .
