Posts relating to the history of European migrant cultures that have arrived in Newcastle and the Hunter Region after 1770
The following overlays are of Ravensworth Homestead in the Hunter region, showing the location of the early Homestead and extant buildings, nearby creek, roads and evidence of other possible structures. We have assembled some aerial photographs, maps and plan overlays on Google earth, and specifically enlarged the section of Ravensworth Homestead to find out what … More Aerial Photographs – Ravensworth, NSW
This post is intended to provide a brief overview and timeline of some of Dr. James Bowman’s land grants and land purchased that formed the Ravensworth homestead in the Hunter Valley, largely reflected through formal Colonial Secretary correspondence and personal correspondence from the James Bowman papers held at the Mitchell Library. This … More Ravensworth land grants (1.)
The Josiah Cocking Photographic Archive consisting of over 220 glass negatives was donated to Cultural Collections on the 9 December 2016 by the great grand daughter of Josiah Cocking, Lauren Prokes. They finally joined the rest of the archival material including the diaries and notebooks from Josiah Cocking donated in 1999 by … More Josiah Cocking Photographic Archive
AN UNIDENTIFIED HUNTER VALLEY MANUSCRIPT CIRCA 1832-1833 Introduction This manuscript account of a settler’s life in the Hunter Region was donated to the University of Newcastle’s Archives by Julie Baird, at the Newcastle Regional Museum in June 2008. The manuscript, which has now been dated as being penned during 1832, and at least July 1833 … More An Unidentified Hunter Valley Settler’s Manuscript circa 1832-1833
This work is conducted in memory and respectfully honours the First Australian People, the Aboriginal People of this land. This natural history illustration of a Indigenous heritage site in Newcastle West was created by Rosie Heritage. Rosie is on the Deep Time Team and undertook this project in the GLAMx Digitisation Lab at UON’s Auchmuty … More DEEP TIME Natural History Illustration
Dr Judith Galvin, author of the PhD thesis The Lettesi of Newcastle (1983) sent us two copies of a VHS video produced in 1988 featuring interviews and film recorded among the migrant and ethnic community gatherings in Newcastle and the Hunter Region. She was sorting through her archives and found two tapes, “copies of an … More The Ethnic Communities of Newcastle and the Hunter Region in 1988
DOWNLOAD A Catalogue of Historic Engineering: The Denman Collection. A listing and description of significant engineering equipment of Industrial and Agricultural use and an introduction to the Denman Museum. (1st Edition 2017) (PDF EBOOK 34.9MB) Compiled by the Denman Team: Tony Gardner, Phil Lawrence, John Rodham, Rob Smith, Bob Francis, Mick Harrison and Mark Kelleher, … More A Catalogue of Historic Engineering: The Denman Collection (2017)
Aerial photographs can be viewed here at UONCC Flickr site. A collection of aerial images donated to the Geology Department at University of Newcastle have been digitised and made public to the wider community via the UONCC Flickr site . The photographs were transferred to Cultural Collections and stored in archives at the Auchmuty Library, … More Aerial Photographs of New South Wales
HEALTHCARE IN NEWCASTLE 1817-1860 By Dr Ann Hardy (Presented at The Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute one-day seminar at HMRI on 11 November, 2017.) Newcastle hospital is one of the oldest hospitals in Australia, founded in 1817, however limited primary sources have survived relating to healthcare. To commemorate 200 years of the Newcastle Hospital a secondary … More Healthcare in Newcastle 1817-1860
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ybYnpJHKo This film honours the work of Zihni Buzo (OAM), civil engineer who worked on the Oaky River Dam, NSW in the 1950s. Interview was conducted at Armidale on 15 August 1998 for the Institution of Engineers Newcastle Division Oral History Program. Filmed and narrated by Zihni Buzo, interviewed and directed by Judy Lindsay. … More The Dam that Zihni Built