Posts relating to the history of European migrant cultures that have arrived in Newcastle and the Hunter Region after 1770
The Illustrated Sydney News, is a colonial newspaper that, during the 19th century, would provide news features and articles on the progress of various townships and cities across New South Wales. In some cases these features were accompanied with a spectacular engraving or lithograph. HOW WERE THEY MADE? What fascinates us, is besides the wonderful … More Newcastle in 1889 (Illustrated Sydney News 27 June 1889)
This extraordinary view is based upon a photograph taken around 1865. See: https://hunterlivinghistories.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/1990-mulimbahhouseeje.pdf A discussion of this engraving and its original source photograph from circa 1865 is here: https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/03/07/earliest-photograph/ Gionni Di Gravio University Archivist & Chair, Hunter Living Histories
WRECK OF THE VICTOR, AT NEWCASTLE. ON the 16th ult. the brig Victor, of and for Melbourne from Newcastle, with coals, was becalmed off the latter port, and slowly drifted ashore until the captain, not liking the vessel’s position, attempted, unsuccessfully, to wear her, and immediately afterwards she bumped heavily. The steam tug Prince … More Wreck of the Victor, at Newcastle. 16th April 1866
B17334 Honeysuckle Project Historical and Industrial Archaeological Survey. C. & M.J. Doring Pty Ltd Consulting Engineers. October 1991. 440p with plans (217 MB PDF File) (Donated by Professor Howard Dick) Digitised by volunteer Matthew Carr-Kirwan.
VIEW OF NEWCASTLE. IN point of commerce the city of Newcastle is the second city of New South Wales, ranking next in importance to Sydney. It is situated on the slope of a hill, on the southern shore of the embouchure of the Hunter River, about seventy miles north of Port Jackson. Like its great … More Newcastle in 1865 (Illustrated Sydney News)
NEWCASTLE. Newcastle, formerly known as King’s Town, is a free port in the County of Northumberland. It is situated about eighty miles from Sydney, at the mouth of the Hunter, which, rising in the Liverpool Range, passes through a fertile and extensive tract of country, and receiving, below the thriving inland town of Maitland, two … More Newcastle in 1855 (Illustrated Sydney News)
Robert Watson has stitched together two Ralph Snowball glass negative images of the streetscape of 65-73 Hunter Street held at the University of Newcastle’s Cultural Collections (Archives), and promoted in the Newcastle Herald through their Archival Revival Feature on Hunter Shops on the 30 March 2017. The originals are on our flickr site here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/3965304628/ … More 65-73 Hunter Street Newcastle in 1891
THE NEWCASTLE FORTIFICATIONS. (BY OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13484259 The Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 24 May 1881 Page 6 of 10 ******************************************************************* THE NEWCASTLE FORTIFICATIONS. (BY OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.) On Saturday last Colonel P. H. Scratchley, R.E., C.M.G., and Colonel C. F. Roberts, visited Newcastle for the purpose of inspecting the hill known as Signal … More The Newcastle Fortifications (24 May 1881)