'Harp in the South' tour through Surry Hills celebrates author Ruth Park

By Stephanie Wood
Updated April 17 2015 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Actor John Derum, artistic director of the 'Walk and Talk the Harp' event celebrating author Ruth Park's <i>Harp in the South</i>, in Surry Hills. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Actor John Derum, artistic director of the 'Walk and Talk the Harp' event celebrating author Ruth Park's <i>Harp in the South</i>, in Surry Hills. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Ruth Park talks with Surry Hills' locals about the government scheme that eventually razed their homes. Photo: From Rich and Rare
Ruth Park talks with Surry Hills' locals about the government scheme that eventually razed their homes. Photo: From Rich and Rare

In Tudor Street, they will pause to examine a house with a steeply pitched red-tiled roof behind an ivy-covered fence. From Ward Park on Devonshire Street, they will look across to a red-brick church and hear the late author Ruth Park's feisty words: "You don't want old Delie's tainted dough. There's a hundred and thirty good quids there, and no mangy old bible-banger is going to keep those kids in there from getting it."

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