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99966
Surname: Newcastle Railway
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1853 18 May
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Discussion re construction of Newcastle Railway and Docks at the 29th annual general meeting of the A.A. company in London
100560
Surname: Newcastle Railway
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1853 4 June
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Discussion in Legislative Council re the Newcastle/Maitland railway
203532
Surname: Newcastle Railway Reminiscences
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1857
Place: Newcastle to Morpeth
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 9 February 1909
Details: The first railway between Newcastle and Maitland was opened in 1857. Mr. Colin Christie, of Newcastle, who was at the official opening of the Maitland tramline yesterday, was also at the opening of the railway 52 years ago, and when seen by a representative of the Newcastle Morning Heral, he had some interesting remarks to make concerning the latter function. The line started from Honeysuckle for Newcastle was not then the terminus and ran as far as Victoria-street, East Maitland, ending in the cutting there. The first passengers were carried over the line a few days before it was opened for public traffic. Mr. Wright was the contractor and he placed a train of ballast wagons at the disposal of residents of Newcastle who cared to make the trip. Planks were placed in the wagons for seating and were covered with tarpaulins. It was a free ride; and the inhabitants of Maitland had no share in it for the train ran from Honeysuckle and returned to that station, making only one trip. Newcastle was a small town in those days, but the offer of a free ride attracted a large number of people and the wagons were filled by those eager to make the trip. Previously a coach, with room for only four passengers, ran between the two towns, and the single fare was 5 shillings. Mr. Christi made many a trip in the coach, and also frequently walked from Maitland to Newcastle on Saturday nights after ceasing work in order to visit his mother. The engines used 50 years ago were small and insignificant compared with those now running and they could do only one-fifth or one-sixth the work that present-day locomotives can do, the speed attainable being also very much less. The carriages, however were fairly comfortable. A considerable time elapsed before the line was extended to West Maitland, and that event was celebrated by the holding of a great ball in Maitland, at which Mr. Christi was present. Fifty-two years ago there was only one station between Honeysuckle and Victoria-street, and that was at Hexham. It was some time before a station was made at Waratah. Mr. Groves was the owner of the land in that suburb – then known as Groves’ paddock – and he had to give a guarantee that at certain number of tickets would be sold each quarter before the Government would make a station there. The opening of the station was a great day for Waratah. A bullock was roasted, and ice-cream- probably the first made in the colony – was sold to the public. There was no machinery in the colony in those days for the making of ice, but the day before the opening of the station there was a heavy hailstorm and a Frenchman named Tortoni, a barber, and his son, gathered tubsful of the hail and next day used it in the making of ice cream. Many changes have occurred in Newcastle since that time, when the first railway, a single line, was carried through to Maitland, and the train made about three trips per day. Upper and Lower Hexham were then of more importance than they are today but the greater part of the country beyond Ironbark Hill has undergone little change during the half century.
203748
Surname: Newcastle Railway Station
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1878
Place: Scott-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 1 March 1930
Details: Newcastle Railway Station Built towards the end of 1878. It is in the modern Italian style of architecture. The building is of red-pointed brick, with stone edging and is 160ft in length, 38 ft in height and 35 ft in width. The verandah runs the whole length of the building, facing the harbour, and is 16ft 6in in width, paved with Pyrmont stone. The colonnade on the south side facing Scott-street is of a very ornamental character, 60ft in length. The pedestals are constructed of Melbourne bluestone, with elegant cast-iron columns, having elaborately worked brackets and frieze. The total length of the station platform available for promenade is 400ft. The design is from the office of Mr. Whitton, Engineer-in-chief. The contractor is Mr. W. Cains of East Maitland and the building was erected under the supervision of Mr. Meltam, Clerk of Works, Railway Department. The beautiful iron castings were from the foundry of Messrs Morison and Bearby, Bullock Island; the circular architraves from Mr. Miller of Newcastle; and Mr. Bowtell was the contractor for supplying the necessary quantity of bricks used in the construction of the station
93114
Surname: Newcastle Regatta
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1847 6 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: -
84345
Surname: Newcastle Reserve
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 9 July
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: For exclusive use of householders residing in Newcastle for pasturage only
55965
Surname: Newcastle School of Arts
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1849 23 June
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: -
73224
Surname: Newcastle School of Arts
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1850 20 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Annual General Meeting held 20th March in Society room. W. Charlton secretary
173956
Surname: Newcastle School of Arts
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 28 July 1837
Place: Newcastle
Source: Sydney Monitor
Details: An allotment of land situated nearly opposite the new military barracks and adjoining the proposed site of the Newcastle School of Arts to be sold by auction
173958
Surname: Newcastle School of Arts
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 13 November 1915
Place: Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: Mr. Colin Christie a former Mayor of the city and who has been identified with its movements since 1849 when he settled in Newcastle said that to his own recollections and from what he had learned from the very early settlers the site of the old markets was never a part of the cathedral cemetery.....The site where the Newcastle School of Arts stands (in 1915) was once a blacks camp and it was also the location of Newcastles original pound. Speaking of 1849, Mr. Christie said that the fence was then standing though the place was not in use as a pound. He was aware that blacks had been buried on the spot where the borough Markets were built many years later but he had never heard of it having been used as a burying ground for white people
207108
Surname: Newcastle School of Arts
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 10 December 1872
Place: Newcastle
Source: John Lee and Co Almanac for 1885, West Maitland, National Library Australia
Details: Newcastle School of Arts Hall destroyed by fire 10 December
174151
Surname: Newcastle Soldiers Barracks
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 9 November 1910
Place: Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: The old barrack room in Newcastle which had been vacated by the soldiers when theywent into their new quarters, was afterwards in the forties used as a place of worship by the Roman Catholics in the town In 1846 a company from the Royal Victoria Theatre in Sydney renewed the applications made two years previously and on this occasion asked permission to use the barrack room for a few nights in order to give theatrical entertainments; but Major Crummer in a letter to the Colonial Secretary on 25th Nov. 1846 refused
78399
Surname: Newcastle Storehouse
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1826 21 October
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Explosion in the Storehouse. Two children seriously injured
81765
Surname: Newcastle Ticket of Leave Muster
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 5 February
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: To take place at the police office at 10am Monday 10th March 1851
145060
Surname: Newcastle Volunteer Fire Brigade
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1861 17 September
Place: Newacstle
Source: MM
Details: Henry Webb employed as foreman by the Fire Brigade. James Bell, house carpenter, employed by the Fire Brigade
92052
Surname: Newcastle Volunteer Fire Brigade Station
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1863
Place: Station situated in Newcomen street
Source: Australian Almanac
Details: Foreman Henry Webb. Secretary W.K. Lockhead.
77241
Surname: Newcastle weather
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1805 1 December
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Hurricane destroyed gardens and filled the mine entrances with debris
77340
Surname: Newcastle Weather
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1809 13 August
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Hunter River in flood. 12 ' above usual level
77839
Surname: Newcastle weather
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1821 6 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Thunderstorm at Newcastle previous Saturday. Vivid lightning; two men killed by lightning strike
78436
Surname: Newcastle weather
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1827 18 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Gale force winds and heavy rain on Saturday 7th April