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203770
Surname: Newcastle Ship Building
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 6 January 1904
Place: near Hannell-street wharf, Wickham
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Ship building at Newcastle - Recently Mr. Samuel Dark of Honeysuckle Point, Newcastle, in order to increase his fleet of steam vessels running between Newcastle and northern ports, laid down the keel of a new boat on the Wickham foreshores in close proximity to the Hannell-street wharf. The land having a gradual slope to the water of Throsby Creek is admirably adapted to the building of vessels of small tonnage. It is the intention of Mr. Dark to keep it as a yard for the building of steam and other craft. The stem and stern part of the vessel have just been put on and the templates sided. The stem is fashioned on the clipper pattern with a finely modelled run from the cutwater. The boat, which is being built from a design and specifications by Mr. Dark will be 117 ft 6in over all in length with a beam of 21 ft on mould and depth of 7ft 6in. She will be built of the best seasoned hardwood, spotted gum with a deck shelf of Oregon and top deck of kauri. She is to be fitted with 50 h.p. compounds engines and two cabins will be provided for the use of passengers
203427
Surname: Newcastle Synagogue
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1927
Place: 122 Tyrrell-street, Newcastle
Source: Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA; The Australian Jewish Chronicle 19 June 1930
Details: Architect Thomas James Pepper. In May 1927 the foundation stone of the first Synagogue to be erected at Newcastle was laid by the first president, Mr. S. S. Cohen, and Mr. Douglas Levy the then president. The Synagogue which is situated in the heart of the city adds to the architectural features of the city, the beauty of design and of utility being admirably blended. There is seating accommodation for 280 persons. Attached to the Synagogue is a social hall, used for school purposes, social and communal gatherings. The president Mr. D. F. Israel worked tirelessly and the late Messrs H. Morris Cohen, D. L. Thalberg and Cecil Sussman were also great supporters
203337
Surname: Newcastle Town Hall
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1929
Place: 290 King-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle CBD Heritage Study, 1988
Details: Three storey stone clad academic revival building. Significant architecturally and important townscape element in Civic precinct. Built in 1929 Architect H. White
70649
Surname: Newcastle Windmill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1820
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: Completion of windmill at Newcastle
77513
Surname: Newcastle Windmill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1820 6 October
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: James Gates per Marquis of Wellington permitted to return to Sydney due his good conduct and industry in the construction of the windmill at Newcastle
77514
Surname: Newcastle Windmill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1820 6 October
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: John Boreham per Marquis of Wellington permitted to return to Sydney due to his industry and good conduct in the construction of the windmill at Newcastle
77515
Surname: Newcastle Windmill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1820 6 October
Place: Newcastle
Source: CSI
Details: John Bruce, millwright and overseer at Newcastle permitted to return to Sydney due to his industry and good conduct in constructing the windmill at Newcastle
78394
Surname: Newcastle Windmill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1826 27 September
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Roof of the large windmill blown off in a gale
203359
Surname: Newcastle Windmill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1829
Place: Newcastle
Source: Return of all Buildings and Establishments at New Castle reported by Mr Rodd the Superintendent of Public Works As being the Property of Government shewing their present actual state etc. August 27th 1829 no. 147/143 (NRS 905, Letter No 32/4776 [4/2146] Courtesy of NSW State Records
Details: No. 1 Windmill situated on rising ground to the southwest of the town. Occupied by Mr. Riley – A Brick Mill rough cast. Circular 32 feet diameter and 38 feet altitude.
203339
Surname: Nobbys Beach Pavilion, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1934
Place: Newcastle
Source: Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA
Details: Architect Frederick Abraham Scorer (1910-1968) The Nobbys Beach Pavilion of 1934 is a pleasing example of the inter‐war Mediterranean style with a gabled central block and two flanking wings with arched colonnades facing the beach
203340
Surname: Nobbys Headland, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: Suters Architects, Macquarie Pier and Nobbys Head Conservation Management Plan
Details: Nobbys is located on top of a high cliff, with the focal plane of the light being just over 35 metres above high water mark. Shear rock walls fall to the beach and harbour below except on the western side where a steep access road joins the breakwater. There is a small amount of grassed area on the site, but most of the cliff top is covered with buildings and concrete driveways. There are a number of other buildings and structures on the headland including The Signal Tower; Three Residences built in 1942 to replace original quarters; WW2 defence related brick and concrete structures and a brick perimeter fence. History - Convicts were stationed on the island as place of punishment, and during construction of the Macquarie Pier which linked the island to the mainland in 1846. Island progressively modified by quarrying, which reduced its height and altered its form. During the 1850s proposals existed to remove the island by blasting, a tunnel or powder gallery was excavated for this purpose but not used. 1858 Lighthouse, cottages and signal station built
132182
Surname: Nobbys Island
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1851 8 December
Place: Newcastle
Source: SMH
Details: His Excellency the Governor-General has by proclamation declared that Nobbys Island bounded on the south east, east and north by the Pacific Ocean, on the West by the waters of Port Hunter, and on the south west by the northern termination of the Newcastle Breakwater be a station and place for the performance of quarantine
169842
Surname: Nobbys Island
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 14 August 1909
Place: Newcastle
Source: Evening News
Details: In 1816 Captain Wallis was appointed Commandant at Newcastle, and had under him 1000 convicts, including 200 women. Of these some 460 of the men were employed in the construction of the breakwater to connect Nobbys Island with the mainland. The following year was remarkable for outrages committed by female convicts; and in order to separate the most unruly characters from their more peaceful sisters, Captain Wallis utilised Nobbys Island as a place of confinement, and sent there the worst characters. At one time there were as many as 40 women undergoing punishment, and it was not an uncommon occurrence for the unfortunate wretches to attempt to reach the mainland while ironed. Up to 1857, prior to the erection of the lighthouse on Nobbys, a coal-fire beacon was lighted every night as a guide to shipmasters. Nobbys itself has an interesting history. About 1854 it narrowly escaped being erased from the map. In that year an improvement scheme was presented to the Government by an engineer, suggesting that Nobbys should be blown up an order to improve the entrance to the harbor. The scheme aroused great agitation and was abandoned, and Nobby s was saved. Some 30 feet of earth, however, was taken off the top.
176911
Surname: Nobbys Island
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 26 November 1954
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Newcastle Sun
Details: A description of the lighthouse and signal station at Newcastle in 1869 - The present keeper Mr. Jesse Hannell has had charge since its inception (12 years previously). For his services he receives 250 pounds per year and works 16 hours a day. The light was fixed. The oil used was China tea oil, which imparted a more brilliant light than kerosene or any other oil tried. The use of kerosene was considered to be too dangerous and for the same reason gas had been excluded.
203338
Surname: Nobbys Tunnels
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: -
Details: Tunnels and chambers dating to the early to mid nineteenth century found beneath the headland (which was an island before the Macquarie Breakwater was completed. The mid-nineteenth century works were part of a scheme by Lt.Col. George Barney to reduce the size of the island with explosives
203341
Surname: Northumberland County Council Offices
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1951
Place: Corner Auckland and King Streets, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 29 October 1951
Details: Officially opened in October 1951 by the Minister for Local Government Mr. Cahill
57092
Surname: Oakhampton Boiling Down Establishment (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1 August 1849
Place: Oakhampton
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Prentice and Nott dissolved partnership. Selling apparatus of establishment by auction
179368
Surname: Old Convict Barracks
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 6 February 1926
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: ALSO TO GO. We are fairly slaughtering the old land marks. These are the architectural, ones, and often enough, they are among the best. Nor could it be otherwise. Built in the places of most value, naturally that stay there, and so down they must come in order to allow of better on their sites. The latest to come under sentence is, it appears, what we used to call the Old Immigration Offices, formerly a convict barrack, and later progressively anything, with, with the latter, extension to suit, and .designed quite regardless of the look. The condemned building is at the top of King-street, and in its way a perfect example of its order of architecture. It was put up under the auspices of that remarkable man, Governor Macquarie, whose name is plastered over the face of the earth as it is, simply because he started early, never stopped, and knocked off late. In order to do something, if anything is possible, to save the old building, the Institute of Architects have been getting busy with a protest, but the opinion is hazarded that it will be quite in vain
203919
Surname: Old Stockade, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1 May 1864
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 30 April 1884
Details: General alarm was felt on the afternoon of May 1 when a noise accompanied by a shock like that of an earthquake was heard in Newcastle. It was caused by the fall of the old Stockade building which had been used as a drill-room for the Naval Brigade. Fortunately no one resided in the building, so that no personal injury was sustained. The weight of sand which had been accumulating at the back of the building for some time pressed against it, as well as the rotten nature of the bricks, comprised with heavy rains had produced the fall
203785
Surname: Patent Slipway, Stockton
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1860
Place: Stockton
Source: Newcastle City Wide Heritage Study 1997 - Volume 4
Details: James Scott opened a patent slip capable of taking ships of up to 700 tons in 1860. In 1869 he leased the works to Daniel Macquarie who virtually rebuilt the slipway and continued to expand it. By 1875 the works had been taken over by O Sullivans and Burns, later known as O’Sullivan and Company