NATIONAL TRUST HERITAGE FESTIVAL AMAZING STORIES Saturday 2 April 9am-12 midday – The Amazing Race (Starts 9am Newcastle Maritime Centre) The Amazing Race presented by the East Maitland Kiwanis Cluc) involves teams solving clues that lead to a variety of heritage sites around the city of Newcastle. A great way social event to raise money … More Amazing Stories National Trust Festival 2011 Begins
Last Friday Minister for the Hunter and Member for Newcastle Jodi McKay announced that the NSW Heritage Council had recommended four more iconic Newcastle buildings to be listed as a Precinct on the NSW State Heritage Register and $684,000 in funding to preserve the heritage values of nine sites across Newcastle. The Minister for Planning … More A new heritage precinct and grants for Newcastle
Saturday 2 April 2011 9AM – 12 Midday Where brains beat brawn! Teams of 4 solve clever clues and face fun challenges while navigating the urban Newcastle landscape via foot. It’s a scavenger hunt, with all the thrills of the amazing race, mixed with trivial pursuit and a dash of cat-and-mouse. Fantastic prizes to be … More Amazing Race
Aborigines of the Hunter Region [Kit] Aborigines of the Hunter Region [Kit] was a resource kit created for teachers and compiled in the 1980s for the Department of Education. It consisted of 7 booklets, 10 prints with questions, 45 slides (most in colour), notes to the audio visual materials and a sound cassette which included … More Aborigines of the Hunter Region Kit
“NEWCASTLE. (From Thursday’s Chronicle) AN INTERESTING RELIC. – On Friday morning last, as the workmen were employed in pulling down the walls of the Bank of New South Wales, in Watt Street, they found embedded between the plastering and the wall, a kind of small leaden case, containing a piece of white paper, about the … More An Interesting Relic
The Background to John Shortland’s Discovery John Hunter’s Missing List By Mr Paul Farnill It is well known that in 1797 John Shortland entered and named the Hunter River whilst in pursuit of a party of escaped convicts. Shortland had entered a then unknown inlet (the mouth of the Hunter), after an unsuccessful search for … More The Background to John Shortland’s Discovery – John Hunter’s Missing List
Click here for the online edition: http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/sizing-up-one-of-nobbys-tall-stories/2043452.aspx Please click below for a copy of the Draft Presentation prepared by Emeritus Professor John Fryer and Mr Russell Rigby to the Newcastle Port Corporation and Land and Property Management Authority. Reshaping Nobbys Version 2 (3.7MB PDF File)
The CRWP is an Inter-disciplinary Engaged Research Initiative sponsored by the Academic Division (Auchmuty Library) in accordance with the University of Newcastle’s Building Distinction Strategic Plan 2007‐2011: University Strategic Priority: (2) International research profile and impact (3) Indigenous Collaboration and (4) Community Partnerships and Engagement and Vice Chancellor’s Your Voice Staff Climate Survey Action Plan … More 2010 – Year in Review
Background to the original 2010 post. (Please note the links to the LPMA site are now dead) This post was updated in 2019 with extra material kindly provided by Susan Effenberger. “We attended an information session yesterday (1 December 2010) organised by Andrew Ling from the LPMA, and the designers Steve and Barney Collins who … More The Mysterious Origins of the Bogey Hole
A rare treasure currently held in private hands has emerged in the form of a painting entitled ‘View of Infirmary, Gaol, Nobbys, Harbour Master’s House and Nobby’. Dated to around the early 1870s, our colleague Ms Ann Hardy has identified the work as being by painter Margaret Laidler. We know of at least another version … More Margaret Laidler’s View from the 1870s