James Hardy Vaux: Newcastle’s Pickpocket & Literary Pioneer This month on ABC 1233 I will be discussing James Hardy Vaux’s Memoirs and Dictionary of the Flash Language. Both these works were penned in the Coal River (Newcastle) in the period of 1812-1814. Newcastle’s history continues to amaze, and none more that the story of James Hardy … More James Hardy Vaux – The Flash Language of Coal River (Newcastle Australia)