“The steelworks at that time had 24,000 people and it was a 24-hour shift, 3 shifts, 7 days a week. You got to the stage where you looked at the clock before going to Wollongong and think, I won’t go now because of the change of shift traffic. It was a bustling town.”

– Peggy Stransky, 21 November 2015

Photo: from the collections of the Wollongong City Libraries and the Illawarra Historical Society.