Introduction As part of the COVID19 lock down during April 2020, a challenge was published through the Hunter Living Histories Twitter feed to identify the possible location of an engraving of two black swans at Reed’s Mistake, (now Swansea) that were published two hundred years ago 1820, but captured sometime around 1818 as part … More “Black Swans” – an engraving by Capt. James Wallis, 1818
In the State Library of New South Wales is held an album of 37 watercolour and pencil drawings by Edward Charles Close that was a gift to his daughter Marrianne Collison Close on the 17th February 1844. Four of the watercolours are scenes taken in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. The link containing a full description … More The Drawings of Edward Charles Close – 1844
DEED, CAPTAIN ERNEST SNOWDEN (NEWCASTLE PILOT) Deposited by Mrs Diana Stephenson (Grand daughter) February 2007 MAP: M4802 TITLE: Lake Macquarie CARTOGRAPHER: Captain Ernest Snowden Deed DATE: 1907-1908 SCALE: 40 chs 2 inches = 1 mile (land mile) FORMAT: Laminated Linen SUBJECT/ AREA/ FEATURES: Original hand drawn map on linen, with annotations in pen and pencil … More Lake Macquarie in 1907
This gem of a chart of Awaba or Lake Macquarie was located in the DIGS database this morning by our colleague Mr Russell Rigby. It is an historical chart or map of Lake Macquarie with geological locations marked including Aboriginal place names. The database says that the outline was sketched by W. Procter from his … More Awaba or Lake Macquarie in 1841
Back in April 2012 we received a very interesting email with regards to one of our stories on our UoNCC Blog relating to Captain Law and the rescue of six communards from New Caledonia. Mr Gary Baker, who, in the course of his family research into his Great Great Uncle Captain George Farrar Pugh, drew … More George Pugh – Wanderings over Belmont, Newcastle and New Caledonia (1873-1874)