By Rosie Furlong Grady – Volunteer – Special Collections and Archives The below selection of photographs are part of a digitised collection of slides, scanned from originals taken in August 1963, held in Special Collections and Archives Box C3164(v). Creator of photographic slides unknown. The collection is held along with other items relating to School … More 1960s Architectural Modernism in Newcastle, NSW
These twenty-one aerial posters of suburbs across Newcastle and Lake Macquarie were originally published by the Newcastle Sun. They were entitled “A Bird’s Eye View: A Portfolio of outstanding aerial photographs of Newcastle and suburbs. A Special ‘Newcastle Sun’ Reader Service” [1974] They look more like a early prototype of Google Earth for the Region, … More A Bird’s Eye View of Newcastle and Suburbs [1974]
The coloured engraving above is a view taken from the hill overlooking Darby Street in the current suburb of Cooks Hill, Newcastle. Features include: St John’s Anglican Church, (between Darby Street and Dawson Street), directly behind is a train on the Newcastle Coal Company’s Railway, (running along Bruce Street and curving towards Dawson Street), a … More Cooks Hill in 1865