<p>They were desperate times but the Depression created a certain breed of people who economised 'made-do' and 'got-by' without spending much money eventually surviving those difficult times.</p><p>Growing up in the 1930s is the first-hand recollections of a young Australian boy's life during the Great Depression in Newcastle in the 1930s as told by a now old man with a long memory. &nbsp;It records the daily life and times keeping alive an era that otherwise may be forgotten.</p>