Travelling Through Time by sea, road and rail in Newcastle and the Hunter

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A wonderful photo, by Frank Hurley, of the steamer wharf at Newcastle during the paddlesteamer years. The ship is the Namoi, which operated between Newcastle and Sydney from 1884 to 1922. It was scuttled in 1933. Another uncommon and interesting Novocastrian view, this time of the Ocean Baths, which opened in 1922. This rare and interesting photo was taken by a visitor to Newcastle in 1918. It shows an effigy of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm, which was to be burned that evening in a demonstration of wartime hostility. Also visible in this East End scene is Newcastle’s Jubilee Coal Monument. The unnamed photographer wrote on the back of the print – sent to a friend or relative – that “crowds turned out to see the lovely bonfire it made”. A very rare photo showing Samuel Dark, founder of Dark’s Ice Works in Newcastle, and also a leading supporter of soldiers and returned servicemen during and after The Great War. Samuel Dark fitted out and furnished a Soldier’s Club at the Mission Hall in King Street entirely at his own expense, and backed the establishment of what became the City of Newcastle Sub-branch of the RSL as the war wound to a close. In this photo Mr Dark is standing beside his wife, Violet. Their daughter Dorothy is sitting in the back seat and Mr Bert Hicks is at the wheel. A woman named Mrs Davies is in the front of the car with her daughter, whose name is unknown. The car is a 1912 Belgian-made FN (Fabrique Nationale). 26 27
The photograph above, from the Ken Magor transport collection, shows a steam tram and carriage at Parnell Place in March 1912. The driver is listed as G. Loche, conductors F. Corrigan and S. Gulliver. Also shown are T. Morris, J. Smith and J. Rolfe. The destination on the tram is Lambton. The photograph below, at Parnell Place in 1905, lists the driver as B. Hadaway. The destination is shown as Wallsend and Plattsburg. In the photograph above, listed as Parnell Place in 1902, the driver is named as D. Crawford and the conductor as a Mr Fullford. The destination is Merewether Beach. The photo below, also listed as Parnell Place in 1902, shows a steam tram with Mayfield shown as its destination. The steam tram network was quite extensive, stretching ultimately to Speers Point and West Wallsend. Steam began to be replaced by electricity in 1923. 28 29
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Page 3 and 4: Lovely photo by Sam Hood of the Fre
Page 5: The iron schooner Kate Tatham lies
Page 9 and 10: Top: J. Wiggens’s Kaiai, photogra
Page 11 and 12: For many years Newcastle’s harbou
Page 13 and 14: A rather crowded Newcastle-bound do
Page 15 and 16: Two views of a rail accident at Woo
Page 17 and 18: Taxi rank outside the post office,
Page 19 and 20: Car accident at Lambton on June 1,
Page 21 and 22: Newcastle Railway Station’s refre
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