Part Two – post 1920s - Newcastle City Council

Hunter, Auckland and King Streets is represented as well
built upon and for diverse uses. Larger buildings face
Hunter Street. The eastern part of Civic Park is fenced but
not yet industrialised. A coal train passes along Burwood
Street towards Hunter Street
Figure 25 The accompanying plan with allotments numbered, and
this summary of acquisition, is from the Report of the
Town Clerk No 24 of 7 November 1978, moved to
Newcastle Region Public Library in April 1986
Figure 26 Early beautification of Civic Park included an avenue of
fig trees along the Burwood coal railway line
Figure 27 Photo shows paths and palm planting in the space between
the Town Hall and Nesca building, also planting in Civic
Park
Figure 28 Image of the ESD showroom adjoining the Bennett and
Wood building Hunter Street
Figure 29 Nesca House. This image is probably earlier than Figure
27, as indicated by the landscaping of Christie Park
Figure 30 The 1937 Australian Provincial Association Building, west
of the civic shops, now Civic Arcade
Figure 31 Hunter Street streetscape between Wheeler Place and
Burwood Street. To the right of the Fredc Ash building is
the Bennett and Wood building, and to the left is the 1940s
Clarendon Hotel. Photo taken on day of demolition of
buildings east of the Clarendon. The bank, right, has also
been demolished, for an enlarged Wheeler Place
Figure 32 Parkinson’s 1945 plan as reported in the Newcastle
Morning Herald 20 October 1945
Figure 33 Northumberland County Council Plan as published in
Newcastle Sun 20 May 1949
NCC
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NPL
(old postcard copy in
possession of C Hunter)
(Newcastle Herald and
Norm Barney)
NPL Cadell
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C Hunter
C Hunter
NCC and
Newcastle Morning
Herald 20 October 1945
NCC and
Newcastle Sun 20 May
1949
C Hunter
Figure 34 Former offices and crest of the Northumberland County
Council
Figure 35 Proposed landscape plan for Civic Park in 1957, as NCC and
published in the Newcastle Morning Herald 22 October Newcastle Morning
1957
Herald 22 October 1957
Figure 36 1960s aerial view of the civic precinct NPL photobank
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Figure 37 The Goold Building C Hunter
Figure 38 Community welcome extended to Princess Alexandra in NPL photobank
Civic Park in 1959
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Figure 39 Illustration of a model of a building proposed by Sydney ?NCC and
architect Peter Muller for erection by Newcastle City Newcastle Morning
Council on the corner of Wheeler Place and Hunter Street
after the Civic Theatre Block has been demolished.
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 31 July 1963
Herald 31 July 1963
Figure 40 A suggested masterplan for the development of the civic Newcastle Morning
block that was presented to the public in February 1966
and reproduced in the Newcastle Morning Herald 29
February 1966
Herald 29 February 1966
Figure 41 Civic Administration Building, 1977 (C Hunter)
Figure 42 This concept for a 13-storey hotel for the Fredc Ash site Newcastle Morning
was published in the Newcastle Morning Herald 30 Herald 30 September
September 1981
1981
Figure 43 This drawing depicts the proposed 1986 development and
was published in the Newcastle Morning Herald 5 October
Newcastle Morning
Herald 5 October 1986