Tag: macquarie pier

Happy 200th Birthday Macquarie Pier (a.k.a. Newcastle Breakwater)

August 2, 2018

This Sunday marks the 200th anniversary of the laying of the Foundation Stone for Macquarie Pier on August 5th 1818. Governor Lachlan Macquarie laid the foundation stone for the Newcastle breakwater, named in his honour by Commandant Captain James Wallis as “Macquarie Pier” during one of his three visits to Newcastle on the 5th August  … More Happy 200th Birthday Macquarie Pier (a.k.a. Newcastle Breakwater)

Photographs of Newcastle and Inverell from the Glennie Family Albums

January 18, 2017

Over the past two years Anne Glennie has been kind enough to scan some astonishing images of Newcastle and Inverell from the Glennie Family Albums. Most are taken in Newcastle around the 1870s to the 1880s, and form great complement to other collections of images taken around the same time located within the George Freeman … More Photographs of Newcastle and Inverell from the Glennie Family Albums

University Researchers One Step Closer to Father of Australia

October 23, 2013

Researchers with the University of Newcastle’s Coal River Working Party are one step closer today to zeroing in on a buried relic laid almost two centuries ago by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, affectionately known as the ‘Father of Australia‘. The Foundation Stone to Macquarie Pier, aka The Newcastle Breakwater, was laid on a Wednesday the 5th … More University Researchers One Step Closer to Father of Australia

Penetrating Macquarie Pier Foundation Stone

August 6, 2013

Next Tuesday (13th August 2013) from around 8.30AM geophysicists from GBG Australia will begin carrying out the GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) examination of the Newcastle Breakwater (Macquarie Pier). We hope to obtain a clearer picture of landscape below the ground at the origins of the Pier, and the possible location of the original Foundation Stone … More Penetrating Macquarie Pier Foundation Stone

Lord Mayor’s Round Table

September 28, 2011

The History Channel (through WTFN Productions in Melbourne) is currently in pre-production for ten (10) half hour TV shows entitled “Tony Robinson Walks.”  This TV series will identify little known compelling stories illustrating our unique Australian character and feature Tony Robinson, star of the Time Team, The Worst Jobs in History, and Blitz Street. Newcastle … More Lord Mayor’s Round Table

The Achievements of Captain Wallis Commandant 1818

July 27, 2010

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2178450 The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser Saturday 26 December 1818 Page 1 of 4 GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDERS. Government House, Parramatta, Thursday, 24th December, 1818 CIVIL DEPARTMENT. HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR, in relieving Captain JAMES WALLIS, of the 46th Regiment, from the Command of the Settlement at Newcastle, by the Appointment of … More The Achievements of Captain Wallis Commandant 1818