Old Minto
From its Indigenous heritage through its colonial days as contested grazing land, Minto had by the 1800sm became sleepy working class village, with small huts dotted along the railway line. The 1890s and first half of the 20th Century saw the village continue to grow slowly. Even by 1950s Minto's population was barely more than 500, many of them housed in small, austere fibro housing. A public meeting in March 1959 described the town as dilapidated and "semi-desolate". Taken by local resident Tony Littlewood in 1969, these images of 'old Minto' include the historic arrival of the first electric train, and capture images of life in rural Minto. (Tony Littlewood lived in Minto in the 1960s, and also lived in Ingleburn and Eagle Vale).

New Minto
Minto changed and grew dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s. The building of the Minto public housing estate from the early 1970s contributed significantly to Minto's urban development. With the proposed redevelopment, Minto will be significantly reshaped. The images of new Minto were captured in 'Minto Through Our Eyes,' an initiative of the Remembering Minto Group. Residents photographed one week in their own lives and that of their local area, sharing stories and images of Minto, and particularly of the housing estate, as it is today - before the coming wave of change.