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203312
Surname: Jubilee Park, Carrington
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 30 March 1887
Place: Carrington
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 12 November 1937
Details: Carrington was proclaimed a municipality on March 30, 1887. The Minister for Local Government Mr. E. S. Spooner opened the Jubilee Park at Carrington, on Saturday 13 November 1937 in celebration of Carrington Jubilee 1887-1937
203316
Surname: King Edward Bank Rotunda
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: York Drive, King Edward Park, Newcastle
Source: Heritage Database
Details: The rotunda is constructed of cast iron columns with cast iron balustrade and elaborate frieze around an octagonal platform roofed with curved corrugated iron and topped by a cast iron finial. The rotunda came from Centennial Park Sydney, where it had been erected for the occasion of the visit of the Duke of York in 1900
203315
Surname: King Edward Park Memorial Gates
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: See Greg Ray s Blog Two Odd Tales of shifting gates. Photo Time Tunnel
Details: These pillars were part of a gift to the people of Newcastle by Joseph Wood. Originally they stood at the entrance to King Edward Park near Watt Street. They were removed, restored and erected on this new site, however were again removed
203314
Surname: King Edward Park Reserve
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1910
Place: Newcastle
Source: Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA
Details: Newcastle Recreation Reserve, was later called the Upper Reserve and after 1911, King Edward Park to commemorate the life of Edward VII. In 1890 the Newcastle Borough Council awarded Mr Alfred Sharp a contract to provide a plan for the design of the Upper Reserve. Alfred Sharpe, reportedly a deaf mute was one of New Zealand s most distinguished watercolourists of the colonial period and came to Newcastle in 1887, late in his life. One of his pursuits was also as a domestic architect with a passionate interest in tree planting and parks. It is after Sharpe that the annual Hunter Landscape Award is named.
206506
Surname: Konig
First Name: Herman, Maria, Magdelena, George, Elizabeth, Catherina
Ship: Wilhelmsberg 1855
Date: September 1855
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Herman Konig age 42, vinedresser; Maria age 32; Magdelena age 13; George age 10; Elizabeth age 6; Catherina age 3; Johan, infant (died on the voyage). Assisted immigrants on the Wilhelmsberg. Remarks: George Townshend
203317
Surname: Ladysmith township
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1900
Place: Killingworth
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 3 October 1900
Details: Rhondda, a new colliery at a new township called Ladysmith, is being connected by railway just a little further round from Killingworth
203318
Surname: Lake Eraring
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Lake Macquarie
Source: The World s News 10 January 1953
Details: Breeding ground for birds and fish. - Although Western Australia looks on the black swan as its own, these elegant birds were once so commonplace on Lake Macquarie (NSW) that they were fed to the pigs. The deed was not so debased as it seems, however. It was when the electric power lines were being put through the lake town of Dora Creek and the usual large flocks of swans were congregating in the nearby two-lakes-within-a-lake, Lake Eraring and Muddy Lake. Flying from one stretch of water to the other the birds invariably hit the wires on the land strip between. Their outstretched wings made contact between the live wires and they fell dead to the ground. To save the dead birds becoming a public nuisance, residents dragged the bodies home in hundreds, and boiled them down for pig food. To stop the mass suicides the authorities had the wires strung a greater distance apart.
203416
Surname: Lake Macquarie Christian Mission, Speers Point
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1890s
Place: 35 Council-street, Speers Point
Source: City of Lake Macquarie heritage study : volume 3 : inventory Lake Macquarie (LM) to Yarrawonga Park (YP) / by Suters Architects Snell in association with Dr John Turner and C and MJ Doring Pty Limited for Lake Macquarie City Council.
Details: A modest gable-roofed weatherboard chapel, with slight decoration provided by ashlar grooved weatherboards on the front face, and by curved barge boards on the gable ends. A separate hall has been built close to the rear of the chapel
203342
Surname: Lake Macquarie Council Chambers
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1916
Place: Speers Point, Lake Macquarie
Source: Lake Macquarie History online
Details: In 1913, the Lake Macquarie Land Company donated land at the corner of Main Road and Council Street, Speers Point, for a Council Chamber. On 30 June 1914, Council accepted a tender from Messrs Southon and Waller worth £2,299 for the construction of a Shire Office and Council Chamber. The Council Chamber was first used for the Council meeting held on Saturday 8 May 1915, and the building was officially opened on 6 June 1916. The Building was demolished in June 1977
203417
Surname: Lambton Church of England
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1917
Place: Church-street, Lambton
Source: Lambton Heritage Walk, online
Details: This was the first church building constructed in Lambton. The land had frontages to both Church and Morehead Streets. This site was located between the pit head (area around Dan Close) and the main settlement (based around Elder Street). A wooden church opened in 1869 and 40 years later a more substantial brick church was constructed. The Church Hall was built in 1917 and the Rectory in 1922.
203322
Surname: Lambton Court House
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Lambton
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 17 January 1877
Details: The Newcastle Morning Herald reported in January 1877 – On Tuesday, Mr. Lewis, Government Architect, pointed out to the contractors the site of the proposed Court-house and lockup buildings and gave also necessary instructions for the buildings. They were to be completed in three months at a cost of about 1200 pounds
203321
Surname: Lambton Holding Reservoir
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: c. 1885
Place: Newcastle Road, Lambton
Source: Lambton Heritage Walk
Details: Water was pumped from Walka Water Works in Maitland to the reservoir. This was the first permanent water supply for the town.
203319
Surname: Lambton Memorial Gates
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1919
Place: Morehead-street, Lambton Oval
Source: Lambton Heritage Walk, Online
Details: The gates had originally been proposed to be built in the late nineteenth century as part of a park beautification project. However, due to poor council finances, they were not built. After the return of servicemen from the First World War it was decided they should become memorial, rather than decorative gates. The gates were built in 1919 and included the names of Lambton residents who enlisted for service in the First World War
203320
Surname: Lambton Park Rotunda
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: c. 1890
Place: 50 Howe-street, Lambton
Source: Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA; Lambton Heritage Walk
Details: Architects, Bennett and Yeomans. At the opening of the rotunda it was said that the rotunda would be used for band recitals, as a speaking platform and as a grandstand for cricket and football matches. Over the years it has been used for all these purposes. It was also an important venue for miners meetings, as Lambton was the centre of the mining district
203323
Surname: Lee Wharf Buildings
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Newcastle Harbour
Source: -
Details: The Lee Wharf Buildings, including the surviving wharf and wharf structure, are the last remaining examples of the extensive cargo and commercial wharf facilities that once existed along the foreshore
203324
Surname: Lowlands Bowling Club, Cooks Hill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1935
Place: Centennial Park, Cooks Hill
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 11 January 1935
Details: The new pavilion of the Lowlands Bowling Club was opened in January 1935
203325
Surname: Macquarie House, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: Newcastle Morning Herald 8 December 1938
Place: 8 Church-street, Newcastle
Source: -
Details: The building was demolished in 1938…… Erected in 1841, the historic house at the corner of Church and Watt Streets, Newcastle -- once the home of the early governors of the settlement -- is in the hands of the demolishers, who began their work yesterday. The old home is on the eastern corner of Church and Watt Streets, known as allotment 29 on the plan of the town of Newcastle and has unusual historic features, in which considerable interest has been aroused owing to the changes that are shortly to take place there. Mr. F. A. Cadell, of the firm of Lang, Wood and Co. Pty, Ltd; who has many of the early documents in his possession, finds on a search that the land was granted to James Reid on February 17, 1841, in order to promote the establishment of towns in the colony, although it had been promised to him by Governor Brisbane on July 12, 1823 Reid died at Brussels on December 4, 1878, and by his will devised this allotment to his son-in-law, Alexander Ogilvie Grant, and his daughter, Adelaide Louisa Rooke, wife of Thomas Slater Rooke. On December 1, 1886, Grant sold his share of the property to James Macartney Rooke for £1027. Rooke was a well-known ship chandler at that time. J.M. Rooke seems to have mortgaged his interest to the Newcastle Permanent Investment and Building Society in 1880, later, the company took over the property. A slice of the land at the corner of Church-street and Reid-lane was sold to the Newcastle City Council on April 7, 1925, for £315, and the residue of the property was recently acquired by Messrs. Orrett Bros for the erection of a block of flats. The block of flats was known as Wirraway Flats, Archtiects Jeater, Rodd and Hay; Consulting Engineers A. S. McDonald and Wagner.
203802
Surname: Marcus Clark and Co., Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 28 June 1902
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Marcus Clark – In 1899 the firm opened a branch of their business in this city adjoining the Northumberland Building Society s offices in Hunter-street West. Here also the expansion of trade after a time necessitated the taking of more extensive premises. They purchased a fine block of land situated on the corner of Charlton and Porcher streets, opposite the Wickham branch of the Australian Joint Stock Bank, where the builders erected a spacious set of new shops from the head of the firm s own design and under his persona supervision. The store opened in June 1902. The front façade facing the main thoroughfare just where the trams stop when going to and from the outlying mining towns, is imposing, the spacious awning over the broad footway, supported by ornamental iron columns which, with the frieze ornamentations above, picked out artistically in green and gold, forms a fine promenade for the public while viewing the nicely arranged goods behind large windows of plate glass
203326
Surname: Market Wharf, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: Illustrated Sydney News 8 April 1875
Details: The wharves form a leading feature of Newcastle. In early days, the only jetty in the harbour was situated at the foot of Watt-street. The street was lengthened by throwing ballast into the river, and the wooden jetty was extended, to allow small vessels to load and unload. There was little improvement in wharf accommodation till the railway was commenced in 1855. In 1858, it became necessary to reclaim the land for the Railway terminus, and to lay down sidings for the shipment of coal. Sand was rolled down the space over which the tide flowed, up to the upper line of Scott-street, and was filled up to the Market Wharf. The front was piled and planked, and thus the long line of wharf was reclaimed from the harbour. Steam cranes were erected, rails laid down, and ships were enabled to lie alongside, in water from 13 to 20 feet deep. Staiths were erected, at a considerable outlay, to the west of the wharf, but there is not such a depth of water there as at the cranes. Between the cranes and the staiths lies the boat harbour, at the northern end of Market-street. It has lately been enlarged and improved, and now has a frontage of 510 feet, of which 250 feet is reserved for the use of settlers landing produce, &c. ; 160 feet for watermen s boats, and 100 feet for slips and sheds for boats belonging to the Government departments.
207385
Surname: Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Waratah
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 26 September 1947
Place: Waratah
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Extract from article on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee - The hospital originated in 1920 in the purchase of a two-storied house in Edith-street, Waratah, known as Enmore Hall for £2200. The property including 5 1/4 acres of land. Some friends of the Sisters of Mercy had seen a For Sale notice outside the building. It impressed them as a suitable site for the starting of a hospital. The suggestion was put to the Mother Superior of the Sisters of Mercy of the Maitland Diocese (Rev. Mother Mary Magdalen), who gave it her enthusiastic approval. The then Bishop of Maitland (Rt. Rev. Dr. Dwyer) sanctioned the project, the building was bought, converted into a hospital, and placed in charge of the Sisters of Mercy, one of the main objects of the Order being the nursing of the sick. Adjacent to the property was a six roomed cottage, named Karuah. This was bought for £1200. It became the first home of the Sisters of Mercy at Waratah. An operating theatre was the only addition to Enmore Hall, although it was renovated and installed with all modern hospital equipment. The first patients were admitted on December 8, 1921, 410 beds being available. 23 in two general wards, and 17 in eight private wards. Matron Short was installed with six nun trainees to assist her. The trainees were under Matron M. Gallagher, a graduate of St. Vincent Hospital, Sydney. They were given lectures in anatomy and physiology by Dr. Gardiner in a five year course. All qualified. The six Sisters of Mercy then took charge of the hospital. On March 25. 1922, the hospital was blessed and opened by Archbishop Kelly, of Sydney. The hospital expanded with the purchase in 1926 of Glenone, a house next to the convent in Lorna-street, and adjoining property Roslyn Hall in 1927, and, in 1929 a property in Edith-street, which was subsequently demolished and is now the site of the main entrance drive to the new hospital. In 1927 Mr. W. Longworth had a Children s block built at his expense at the back of the hospital. Named the Longworth Block, it consisted of several rooms for sick children. – Note – Enmore Hall had once been the home of Colonel Charles Frederick Stokes