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Archive for June, 2009

Newcastle and related newsreels from British Pathe

Posted in New South Wales State Dockyard, News Reels, audiovisual archives, events, film archives, gosford, history, maitland floods, media, merewether, newcastle, nobbys headland, reports, tagged , , , , , , , on June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Fish Feeder (aka Fish Charmer) (1939)
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=37121
Description: Part of issue ONE FOR THE ROAD. Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Issue Date: 04/05/1939. Various shots of disabled man on crutches, Mr. Laskey, being helped into sea from pier. Mr. Laskey holds a loaf of bread beneath the water, soon a shoal of small fish surround him, nibbling at the [...]

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University Research Papers on Newcastle and Hunter Region

Posted in history, tagged , on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Student Research Papers in Australian History was a serial published by the University of Newcastle’s History Club, Department of History, and featured some of the best papers on Australian history written by undergraduate history students at the time. It is great to see such local historical topics afforded University level academic rigour. Many of these [...]

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Second blasting tunnel found in Nobbys headland

Posted in 1850s gunpowder plot, Colonel Barney, archaeology, blowing up of nobbys, historic photographs, nobbys, nobbys headland, tagged , , on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Link to online Newcastle Herald story 3 June 2009 – Second blasting tunnel found in Nobbys headland
The Search for the Nobbys Gunpowder Tunnels
The University of Newcastle’s Coal River Working Party is currently preparing a scoping document for the New South Wales Heritage Branch which sets out our goals for archaeological investigations within the Coal River [...]

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