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203367
Surname: Union Steam Ship Building, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1941
Place: Watt-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Sun 30 June 1941
Details: On this site was formerly the Convict Barracks c. 1820; the California Hotel; Albion Hotel (c. 1885) Ralphs Family Hotel; Baden Powell Hotel; In 1941 the UNION STEAM SHIP BUILDING was erected on the site, as reported in The Sun: Attractive and harmonious results on modern and up-to-date lines have been achieved by the various contractors for the new Newcastle premises of the Union Steam ship Co.. Ltd. now ready for occupation in Watt-street. The building contract was in the hands of J. C. Davis and Sons of Denison-street, Hamilton. The architects were Jester, Rodd and Hay of Watt-street, Newcastle. The whole of the glazing was carried out by James Werrin and Co. Ply., Ltd., glass manufacturers of Hunter-street. Wickham and the latest in modern design has been embodied. A feature is the terrazzo work, of which extensive use has been made, including the floors, doors and stringers. Particularly attractive results have been achieved with color blending and well-finished designs. This work was in the hands of the Newcastle Lime and Cement Co. Ptv., Ltd.. of 531 Hunter-street. West provided lime and cement and other requirements for the new building. The companys policy of Australian manufacture, by Australians, for Australian, has been adhered to. The manufacture and Installation of the handsome bronze window frames was entrusted to J. Connolly. Pty., Ltd., metal workers, of 43-49 Mountain-street, Broadway, Sydney. They were supplied through the firm s Newcastle representative, F. H. Fearon. of 45 Watt-street, Newcastle. Attractive veneered panelling work and the installation of solid-core doors were carried out and supplied by Frederick Rose
203425
Surname: Uniting Church, Morisset
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Bridge-street, Morisset
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: Small gothic revival church building has been converted to be the Church Hall, with another former church hall built on the west end. A small porch has been removed from the east end. 1910, church proposed at Morisset School of Arts meeting. To be owned by Methodists and shared by Presbyterians. G. B. Pearce built church and financed it. Church opened 1st September 1912. Rev. S. Bostock-Jones Minister at the time. April 1913 building damaged in a gale. Presbyterians locked out in 1917. Electric lighting 1930. Church converted to Hall in 1976
203798
Surname: Wallsend Co-operative Colliery
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 18 November 1929
Place: Wallsend
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 18 November 1929
Details: Brief history of the beginning of Wallsend Co-operative mine in NMH in 1929: Mr. William Adam, of Throsby-street; Wickham, who. is now over 80 years of age, and was one of those engaged in the transportation of the first coal won, to Newcastle, via Iron Bark Creek. Mr. Adam wrote: My memory tells me that it was during a strike in 1862 that a party of miners first struck the coal. I well remember leaving Bullock Island in a rowing boat with a party, the other members of which were the late John Howden, James Macara, P. Clark, and my father, Thomas Adam. We went right to the head of the creek, and going up to where the coal was struck, saw the miners throwing it over their shoulders on to the bank. It was my father who had the contract to take the coal to Newcastle, and after it was brought down the creek on small punts, it was placed on board a lighter moored below the bridge (the lighter was named The Islander, and was built on Bullock Island). When the first. cargo was loaded, it took us a fortnight to get down to North Harbour, and I have reason never to forget the experience. IRON BARK CREEK. Besides being used for coal transportation, Iron Bark Creek was availed of for the conveyance of goods from Newcastle to Wallsend s first storekeepers, before the construction of Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company s branch railway. To-day, beyond serving the purpose of Wallsend river men, keen fishermen, who have boats housed on the banks of the creek, the waterway merely is Wallsend s drainage outlet. Probably no colliery in the Northern district has had such an eventful career as the Co-operative mine. Most of the surface plant is still in use to-day in connection with operations in Wallsend-Borehole mine, a non-associated pit, which employs upwards of 60 hands, and, of course, is working regularly. As its name indicated, Co-operative was originally in the hands of a party of miners, and although the co-operative venture failed, the early struggles of the men to amass fortunes are well worthy of a fore-most place in the history of coalmining in this State. On November 25, 1861, James Fletcher, Alan Wilde, Hugh Walker, Samuel Fletcher, William Wonders, George Curtiss, Thomas Alnwick, Robert Forrester, Richard Peeks, William Davis, Duncan Cherry, William Bower, James Richardson, Matthew MacLaren, and James Nelson, all practical miners, engaged in other pits, entered into an agreement, the document setting forth that the parties had leased from Messrs. Kenrick, Kenrick. Brooks. and Company, a parcel of land containing, 1280 acres, with the right to mine the coal underlying it at a royalty of 6d per ton . TUNNEL DRIVEN. In 1862 a tunnel was driven into the outcrop of the seam, adjacent to the screens being used by Wallsend-Borehole to-day. John King and James Goldie turned the first sods, and the first manager was Alan Wilde, with Thomas Hepplewhite as under-manager. For many years the mineral was hauled out of this tunnel. The first won was carted to the head of Iron Bark Creek and loaded on to barges, for transportation to Newcastle. Then, in 1863, when Newcastle-Wallsend Coal, Company completed its branch railway, screens were erected near the junction of what is still known as the Co-operative line, and over a trestle bridge from the tunnel to the screens the loaded skips were hauled on a tram line by horses. Among those engaged as drivers were John Horn, William Hepplewhite, William Duncanson, William Richmond. John King, James Goldie, Walter Beveridge, Thomas Hepplewhite, James Adamson, George Hutchison, and George Stone.
203778
Surname: Walsh Island Ship Yard, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 12 August 1927
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Newcastle Sun
Details: Since the war, Walsh Island as a ship-building yard has declined, but though the force of workmen has decreased from 2500 to 1350, it is still one of the busiest engineering construction shops in the State in 1927. Founded in 1913 following the resumption by the Commonwealth Government of Cockatoo Island, Walsh Island now has in hand work valued at 1 million pounds. The fortieth of the 200 steel carriages under construction for the State Government was delivered and the new pilot steamer Birubi to replace the Ajax in Newcastle harbour will soon be launched. Steel pipelines and cast iron pipes for the Hunter District Water Board and the Public Works Department are another phase of the island s activities. During the war six Commonwealth standard ships of 5500 tons to 6000 tons were built at Walsh Island which also launched a host of ferries, tenders, tugs, dredges, barges and launches. Though plant at Walsh Island was set up for Commonwealth naval construction, and facilities enable the building of ships 750 feet long and of 15,000 tons burden, in the absence of orders for bigger work, repairs to all sorts of ships were done
203356
Surname: Wangi R. S. L. Memorial Hall
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1953
Place: French-road, Wangi
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 24 October 1953
Details: A war memorial hall was officially opened at Wangi last night by the R.S.L. Eastern Metropolitan State Councillor (Colonel F. Tinkler). The hall was built by members of the R.S.L. Wangi sub branch in less than 16 months for £.5000. All labour was voluntary. The Publicity Officer of the branch (Mr. R. Bowyer) said that the new hall would meet a great public need. The branch hoped to form a Boy Scout troop and Cub Pack soon. There were no youth organisations in Wangi now.
203350
Surname: Wangi WW2 Air Raid Shelte
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Wangi Point
Source: Damon Cronshaw Newcastle Herald October 31 2012
Details: Site includes a concrete bunker once a command base four gun emplacements and an ammunition dump
203354
Surname: War Memorial - The Junction
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Glebe Road and Kenrick Streets, The Junction
Source: Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA
Details: Architect Wallace Lintott Porter –After seven years with Castleden s firm he started on his own in 1915 and made rapid progress. A year later he employed, as an articled student, 17 years old William Dobell, later Sir William Dobell, the painter. Dobell became a registered architect in Porter s office in 1923.
203355
Surname: War Memorial and Cultural Centre, Cooks Hill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1952-56
Place: 15 Laman-street, Cooks Hill
Source: Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA
Details: The War Memorial Cultural Centre, Laman Street, Newcastle, 1952‐56. A worthy contribution to Newcastle s buildings by a consortium team of local architects: Max Hoskings, Max Pilgrim, Clarrie Sara, Bob Lees, Norm Valentine, Nigel Pitt and Rowan Pitt. Two sculptured figures in the Foyer by Lyndon Dadswell, the side panels in relief by Paul Beadle
203352
Surname: Waratah Crystal Palace Gardens
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Hanbury Street, Waratah
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 1893
Details: Opened by James Anderson. Put up for sale in 1893 - For Sale in 1893. ¼ mile or five minutes from the Railway Station and close to the main Maitland-road. A well-known Freehold Property, with an area of about 47 acres. embracing Pleasure Grounds and Gardens. Shrubberies, Dancing Saloon, Running Track, Cricket or Football Field; fully-licensed Hotel (Sir Robert Peel Hotel) with about 12 rooms, including the Museum, Spacious Stabling, Sheds, and many other advantages
203353
Surname: Waratah Garbage Incinerator
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1931
Place: High and Edith Streets, Waratah
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 1931
Details: Waratah Council will be the first in the Newcastle district to be provided with a modern incinerator. Building operations are progressing rapidly. The steel work, which has been manufactured by Messrs. A. Goninan and Company, of Broadmeadow, has already been assembled on the site, and the fire brickwork is being laid by expert hands
203795
Surname: Waratah Pottery Works
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 4 November 1865
Place: Corner Platt-street and Turton-road Waratah
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: The Waratah Pottery has now become an established fact. We yesterday visited the premises, and found to our satisfaction that a very substantial workshop and drying-room had been erected. An oven or kiln is nearly finished, a mill built, and everything ready for work on the wheels, which will this day, we believe, be in motion, under the hands of the potter. We understand it is the intention of the spirited proprietors to make every kind of earthenware of which the clay is capable, from a small inkstand to a 24-inch flowerpot ; and if we may judge from the ware we saw yesterday some of which were burnt-and well burnt too-they will be entitled to a good share of the pottery trade of the Hunter River district. The premises are close to the Waratah railway station, and may be easily seen by persons travelling along the Great Northern Railway.
203351
Surname: Waratah Town Hall
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1926
Place: 42 Hanbury-street, Waratah
Source: Newcastle Sun 26 June 1926
Details: The building is of brick. On the front which is of Sydney facing bricks, four fluted columns reach to the full height of the building. Six stone steps lead to the main doors which are of polished maple. A wide hall divides the building from front to rear. The interior of the building is conveniently arranged and the design permits of each room getting the maximum amount of natural light. The electric light scheme is well designed. Architects were Messrs. Pender and Lee of Newcastle and the contractors Messrs McGrory and Keenan, local builders
203357
Surname: Watkins Bridge, Cockle Creek
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Cockle Creek
Source: Scanlon, Mike Newcastle Herald 15 April 2021
Details: Watkins Bridge was a vehicular bridge made of timber that crossed Cockle Creek from Race Course Road to Boolaroo via First, and later Second Street, Boolaroo. It linked Teralba to Boolaroo and Speers Point. Together with a wooden footbridge about a kilometre south, Watkins Bridge was demolished in 1973
203386
Surname: Waverley House; Clarendon Hotel; Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1884
Place: 347 Hunter-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 15 June 1940
Details: Clarendon Hotel; Waverley House, 347 Hunter St, Newcastle. This hotel was built in 1884 under the name of Waverley House. Apart from slight alterations to the main bar, the hotel had not been changed since that year. An exceptionally large picture of Milford Sound, New Zealand had been hanging in the bar since it was opened. The Clarendon Hotel was re-built in 1940 Architects Pitt and Merewether
196480
Surname: Welham Pottery (Industry)
First Name: Nathan
Ship: LH
Date: 11 August 1928
Place: Merewether
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Ancient Earthenware – The pottery works at Merewether were situated at the corner of Junction and Patrick streets. They were owned by Nathan Welham. The articles made were drain pipes, bread crocks, jars, flower pots, stone ginger beer bottles, and chimney pots. His potter was a man named Jordon. Welham s parents kept a ship in Hunter Street Newcastle, on the site of Scott s emporium, and the wares from the pottery were sold there. The clay was dug on the pottery site, but the pits have long since been filled in with drift sand. The Pottery Inn, kept by Welham was on the corner, and the works at the back. Next to the pottery was a fine Lucerne paddock owned by Mr. Birdmell and there was also a stream nearby where the residents used to gather fine watercress – Robert F. Lingard
203465
Surname: Wesleyan Chapel, Waratah
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 24 January 1863
Place: Hanbury, Waratah
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Mr. A. Mansfield, architect, has prepared plans for the carrying on and completion of the Wesleyan Chapel, the foundation of which was recently laid.....
203457
Surname: Wesleyan Church, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 21 January 1863
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: On the 7th January, the foundation stone of the new Wesleyan Church was laid in the presence of a large assembly of spectators. The stone was laid by John Caldwell, Esq., M.L.A., The church, when finished, will be an ornament to the town
207598
Surname: Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 27 January 1902
Place: Newcastle
Source: NMH
Details: THE WICKHAM COLLIERY. CHANGE OF MIANAGEMENT. Mr. J. F. Burns, (chairman), Dr. Morson, and Messrs Thomas Saywell, H.I McKenzie and Benjamin Lee, directors of the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery, on Saturday made the usual quarterly inspection of their, colliery, and found everything satisfactory. They accepted, with regret, the resignation of Mr. James Fletcher, who had been their colliery manager for the past 14 years. Mr. Fletcher resigned in order, to give his undivided attention to the Stockton Colliery, of which he is tile manager. The Wickham and Bullock Island directors have appointed Mr. Thomas Crawford, who holds an English certificate, to succeed Mr. Fletcher. Mr. Crawford has for some time been connected with the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery and his appointment will give satisfaction to the employees.
203756
Surname: Wickham Buggy Factory
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1870
Place: Opposite Castlemaine Brewery, Wickham
Source: The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison Morrison, W. Frederic Sydney. The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888
Details: Thomas Proctor of the Wickham Buggy Factory, was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and arrived in the colony in 1860. He learned his trade in Newcastle, New South Wales, and in 1870 started the Wickham Buggy. The factory is the means of employing about twenty hands, and many of the workmen engaged there had previously served their apprenticeship in his service. Only first -class work was turned out of the factory, and the highest wages for the shortest hours were paid. He was R.W.M. in St. Johns Lodge, S.C., 700, and married with five children. John Gilbert served his apprenticeship with Thomas Proctor, in a shop opposite the brewery; John Gilbert commenced in business with his brother George, near Cottage Creek bridge, where they founded the firm of Gilbert Brothers.
203358
Surname: Wickham Council Chambers
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1890
Place: 18A Albert-street, Wickham
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 4 March 1890
Details: SINCE THE INCORPORATION OF THE BOROUGH of Wickham the aldermen have used a plain wooden building in Throsby-street for meeting purposes, but the rapid growth of the municipality made it highly essential that a larger and more imposing building should be secured. The question was fully discussed, and it was decided that a chamber should be built which would be adequate for all requirements. A suitable site near the entrance gates of the Wickham Park was selected, plans and specifications were called for, and the work was proceeded with as quickly as possible. The building is now completed, and the first meeting was held in it on Wednesday evening last. It is a very fine structure, and is built of brick with iron roofing. Although of no distinct design, it leans to the Corinthian style of architecture. From the front door a spacious hall leads direct to the council-chamber, which is 20ft by 33ft in dimensions, and is situated at the back. On either side of this hall two neatly and handsomely furnished rooms open. These are brought into requisition for the use of the Mayor, the council-clerk, the inspector of water and gas, and the inspector of nuisances respectively. These apartments are each 11ft by 18ft, so that they give ample accommodation. They are all very lofty, and are consequently thoroughly cool. The joinery work throughout is of the best American pine, and is grained to resemble old English oak. The ceilings are of the same material, the whole being very handsomely varnished. The council-chamber is fitted with a very handsome table and chairs, and also has a number of comfortable benches of considerable length ranged round the walls. These are for the convenience of ratepayers, who, in that particular borough, take considerable interest in the business their municipal legislators meet to discuss. The other rooms are equally well furnished, and altogether the structure is neat, handsome, commodious, and substantial, and a credit to the municipality.