Jim Blake has lived in or within 500 metres of the City of Holdfast Bay for over 80 years. He has lived at Glenelg North, Marino and Brighton and went to St Leonards Primary School, Glenelg North, only one street from the Old Gum Tree. He has been a volunteer at the Holdfast Bay History Centre for twenty-one years. Jim became interested in the changing face of Holdfast Bay whilst helping to catalogue the History Centre's photographic collection and later seeing the interest shown by others whilst being a tour guide on historic walks and guest speaking at service clubs and schools.
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'Through its use of old paintings and photographs, this well presented and attractive book shows the places as they were and as they are now, clearly portraying the history and development of the city during the last 175 years. The contrasts of the 19th century photographs and today’s landscape are just stunning.' – Nic Klaassen, Flinders Ranges Research