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203780
Surname: Bell Buoy, Big Ben Reef, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 19 December 1872
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: The Bell Buoy on Big Ben Reef – This buoy, which had attracted so much attention for some days past in the harbour, on account of its novel appearance and huge proportions, was safely moored yesterday morning, on the outer point of Big Ben Reef off Nobbys, in a direct line with the lighthouse and the wharf at the steam cranes. The material used in the construction of this buoy is boiler-plate iron, with a band of timber around it. in shape it may be said to be semi-oval ; the smaller end, to which an immense chain, weighing three tons, is attached, is in the water, and is partly open, which tends with the weight of the chains to keep, the buoy in a vertical position ; the clappers, four in number, being outside, will strike only on the weather side with a force in accordance with the motion of the sea. The mooring is formed of the flanges of the screw which once belonged to one of her Majesty s ships, and which had become unserviceable in these waters ; it weighs twelve tons. There are two chains attached to this huge block of iron - one of which only is used, the other is left to assist in staying the mooring until the chain in use is found to be so worn as to be unserviceable. Each of these chains - thirty feet in length - consists of ten links, the weight of each link being over live hundred weight. The whole of these preparations were completed by Messrs. Rodgers, who put them together, and cast the bell at their foundry. We believe this is the largest bell that has ever been cast in the colony. It is constructed entirely of colonial materials. The copper is colonial, being from Wallaroo, and the tin from the Smelting works of Mr. C. J. Stephens, of Stockton. It will be heard two miles off at sea. In the opinion of nautical men, it will be of great service to steamers and vessels in foggy weather, when the beacons are not visible. We believe this bell buoy will be of great service to the port. Tho Messrs. Rodgers appear to have completed the work in a satisfactory manner.
203369
Surname: Bellevue Hotel 738 Hunter-street, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Hunter-street, Newcastle
Source: Statement of Heritage Impact. Stephen Booker Carste STUDIO Pty Ltd
Details: The present hotel (2011), comprises an 1878 building with extensions dating from c 1880-90 and 1935. The 1878 building was constructed by Job Butler Hudson on a site acquired from A A Dangar. On 28 December 1878, an advertisement in the Newcastle Morning Herald referred to the building as Hudson s Bellevue Hotel, suggesting that it was purpose built as a hotel. In 1880, the licensee was William Norman, and from 1885-90 the licensee was Edward Scott who also ran a number of cabs and buggies from the premises. Early site plans indicate that the hotel was situated along a major tramway route and was close to the wharf areas of Newcastle Harbour. The original building was possibly an example of the Victorian Regency style. The c1890 extension was an example of the Victorian Filigree style. The exterior of the original building was extensively remodelled when the 1935 extensions were constructed, the hipped roof was replaced with a skillion roof, a Victorian parapet added, the first floor verandah removed, and an extension to the north west was built. The two storey verandah, including cast iron columns and lace, of the c1880 addition was removed. The ground floor window and door arrangement of both buildings was altered. The whole of the 1935 works combined the building parts to give the appearance of one building. The 1935 alterations and additions were designed by W M D Jeater, Newcastle architect for Messrs Tooheys Ltd. Although a portion of new suspended awning to the north-west extension in Hannell Street was added in 1935, it appears that the remainder of the present suspended awning was built before 1935. The ground floor window and door arrangement has been altered since 1935, and the wall tiles to the ground floor external walls have been removed. In 1994 the building ceased operation as a hotel and was purchased by the Honeysuckle Development Corporation as part of the land consolidation in the Honeysuckle Precinct bounded by Hunter Street, Hannell Street, Wharf Road, and Merewether Street.
206508
Surname: Berg
First Name: Anton, Elizabeth, Catherine, Margaretta, Joseph, Elizabeth
Ship: Wilhelmsberg 1855
Date: September 1855
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Anton Berg age 47, vine dresser, Elizabeth 47, Catherine 21, domestic servant; Margaretta 18, domestic servant; Joseph age 15; Elizabeth 12. Assisted immigrants on the ship Wilhelmsberg. Remarks: George Townshend
203406
Surname: Bethel Chapel, Lambton
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1868
Place: 43A Dickson-street, Lambton
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 26 January 1935
Details: Bethel capel, annibynol adeiladwyd, A.D. 1868. - So runs the inscription engraved in stone in front of the little Congregational Church at Lambton. To the average passer-by, this means nothing. Perhaps it may rouse a fleeting curiosity, but nothing more. That is because the inscription is in Welsh. If it was merely written in English, Bethel Independent Chapel, built A.D. 1868, nobody would even give it a second glance. Yet, what a story that stone could tell! How few even guess at its romantic history? The opening scene of its story is set at Llangwig, in Wales. The year is 1854. In Llangwig is the big Carmel Church, and its pastor is Rev. Evan Lewis, the man designed to do a great work in Newcastle, and to found and guide Lambton Church for 38 years. In 1864, in response to an urgent call from three Churches, known as the Junction, Wallsend, and Minmi, in the district of Newcastle, in this State, he decided to come to Australia. Arriving at Newcastle on April 5, with his family, he at once took charge of the work-a task which few men would undertake even now, with all our increased facilities for travel. In those days, he was obliged to trust no other means of conveyance than his, own legs to cover the ground. This went on for about two years. Then, about the year 1866, several mines in the Wallsend district were flooded out, and the miners concerned - mostly Welsh Congregationalists, or Independents, as they were then called - crossed over to Lambton in a body. So in this year Mr. Lewis decided to found a cause at Lambton. This he did, and devoted the remainder of his life to looking after it. The chapel is built of roughly hewn sandstone blocks quarried locally. The foundation blocks are approximately two feet thick
203747
Surname: Bibby and Tighe Sawmill, Wickham
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1890
Place: Wickham
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 14 October 1890
Details: In October 1890 the Newcastle Morning Herald reported – An announcement of the amalgamation, under the style of Bibby and Tighe, of the businesses heretofore separately carried on by Messrs. Thomas Bibby and Arthur Tighe in this city. The new firm will undertake the duties of timber merchants, auctioneers, mining and general commission agents, valuators and accountants, at 2 Wolfe-street. Both gentlemen are well and favourably known in commercial circles and will doubtless meet with much support
203265
Surname: Bingle-street, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Sun 2 May 1918, p. 4
Details: Bingle-street, Newcastle was named after John Bingle who led a deputation to Sydney to preserve Nobbys. Captain Barney, then military commandant, had caused two tunnels – each about 150ft long, with chambers for explosives – to be driven into the landmark, which he desired to demolish so as not to rob of the wind sailing vessels approaching the port. The name of Lieut. Sutherland is carved at the end of the tunnels, where they met.
190841
Surname: Birdwood Park
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 21 August 1920
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Alderman Creer does not approve of the names which have been bestowed on some of the parks in Newcastle. At the meeting of the city council, to be held on Monday night he will move that the resolution naming West End Park, Reid Park, and Shedden Park, be rescinded. In the event of the council agreeing to the motion, Alderman Creer will then move that West End Park be called Birdwood Park, that Reid Park be called Empire Park, and that Shedden Park be called National Park
190844
Surname: Birdwood Park
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 24 August 1920
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Alderman Creer moved that the previous resolutions of the council naming West End Park, Reid Park and Shedden Park be rescinded. He said that names should be comprehensive and significant of big events or of big men in history. No man was better known than General Birdwood (William Riddell Birdwood) and no man had endeared himself more to the Australian soldiers, starting at Gallipoli and finishing in France
203266
Surname: Birdwood Park
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: 502 King-street, Newcastle
Source: Appendix B-Statement of Heritage Impact. Former Newcastle City Holden Site 500 King Street Newcastle West. Prepared by EJE Heritage April 2016; Newcastle Morning Herald 9 January 1947
Details: Birdwood Park, first established in 1910, is one of Newcastle’s oldest reserves. It is believed to have been named after Sir William Birdwood, the World War 1 General in charge of the ANZAC corps. General Birdwood visited Australia for an extensive tour in April 1920. His itinerary included Newcastle on Wednesday April 28th 1920 and included a luncheon with returned officers of the AIF. Birdwood Park was the site of the control centre for the National Emergency Services (Newcastle Branch) from September 1942 to February 1944.The service was established in 1939 to care for the public during an air raid. It was staffed by male and female volunteers as wardens, first aiders and ambulance drivers. The control centre with its 12 inch thick concrete walls, operated 24 hours a day with a staff of 12. Birdwood Park has been, and continues to be, used for events and demonstrations. Circuses were also staged at Birdwood Park in years gone by In 1947 the Newcastle Truby King Clinic for mothers and babies was established in the old air raid shelter, the Newcastle Council having obtained the quarters for the clinic when it was in danger of closing down through lack of accommodation.
203370
Surname: Black Diamond Hotel, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Hunter-street, Newcastle
Source: F. A. Cadell, Newcastle Morning Herald 18 September 1937 p. 20
Details: Where the Civic Block now stands was the Black Diamond Hotel-that well-known hostelry, which was opened by Mr. Robert Hackworthy, who gave it that name. On the upper floor of the hotel was an entertainment hall. There lodge meetings and many convivial gatherings took place.
203267
Surname: Blackbutt Park Kiosk
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1936
Place: -
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 23 January 1936
Details: There were three kiosks at Blackbutt Park in 1936
181853
Surname: Blaxland (Industry)
First Name: George
Ship: LH
Date: 22 May 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: John McNamara per ship Ann and Amelia in the service of Mr. G Blaxland charged with neglect of duty in absenting himself from his masters premises of which he had charge. Mr. G. Blaxland junior states; the prisoner has charge of my fathers salt works when I am elsewhere engaged. For some time past I have had reason to be dissatisfied with his conduct and I desired the constables to look after him having been informed that he has taken every advantage of my absence to absent himself from the premises entrusted to his charge, especially at night when his presence there is most required to protect the property from depredation. William Turvey constable states - for some time past I have frequently met the prisoner in the town in the evenings about dusk, but he has always told me he was going on his masters business. last night I met him in the street after dark and took him into custody and apprized Mr. Blaxland of my having done so. The prisoner admitted the charge and was sentenced to 50 lashes
74883
Surname: Bloomfield Boiling Down Establishment (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1850 22 May
Place: Murrurundi
Source: MM
Details: Thomas Haydon advertising new boiling down facility
203371
Surname: Boatrowers Hotel, Stockton
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: 130A Fullerton-street, Stockton
Source: Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA
Details: Architects Pitt and Merewether; Mrs. John Cotterill, formerly Mrs. George Pike ran the Boatrowers Hotel prior to 1923
203268
Surname: Bogey Hole
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: Built c. 1819 - 1820
Place: Newcastle
Source: -
Details: The Bogey Hole, also known as the Commandant s Baths, is a heritage-listed sea bath in Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. It was hewn from a rock shelf at the base of cliffs near Shepherds Hill, Newcastle by convicts on orders from Commandant Lieutenant-Colonel James Thomas Morisset around 1819 – 1820
203269
Surname: Bolton-street, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Sun 2 May 1918, p. 4
Details: Bolton-street, Newcastle (Boulton in original deeds), was named after Matthew Boulton, an eminent English engineer 1728 – 1809. He purchased Soho, near Birmingham 1762. He helped James Watt to construct the steam engine and took out the patent in 169. He introduced gas-lighting into Birmingham in 1798
190812
Surname: Bowtell (Industry)
First Name: Joseph
Ship: LH
Date: 8 August 1866
Place: The Glebe, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Joseph Bowtell opening his Brickyard at the Glebe
207496
Surname: Bowtell Brickyard (Burwood) (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 15 May 1867
Place: Burwood, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Inquest held by Dr. Pierce at the house of Thomas Dent of the Burwood Inn, before a jury of five consisting of William Smith (foreman), Enoch Williams, James Gibbs, Charles Byrnes, Alfred Sparks and Thomas Llewellyn, into the death of Arthur Bowtell and Richard Haddaway at the Bowtell brickyard earlier that day. Joseph Bowtell deposed that he was a brickmaker by trade, and father of the deceased Arthur Bowtell. On that day at about 12pm he was loading bricks out of the kiln when the roof fell in on all who were working there, Richard Haddaway, Arthur Bowtell, William Davis, carter and himself; they were taking out eleven or twelve loads of bricks out of the kiln, the walls of which had been built six weeks, but the arch of which had only been put on the previous week. The walls were about ten feet high, the kiln being twelve feet wide by twenty two feet long, the walls about twenty six inches and the arch fourteen inches. The highest part of the arch above the wall was six feet. They were all engaged in loading when the roof fell in; about 5000 bricks fell on the deceased. The roof was built of bricks held with a substance called pug, loomy clay always used in building brick kilns. Witness had been brick making nearly all his lifetime. He had never however built an arched kiln before building this one. The deceased Haddaway came down from Maitland by the train that morning looking for work. Witness agreed to employ him. He had only been working half an hour when the accident happened. The kiln was built by Henry Chandler, a competent bricklayer. it was constructed in the usual style and form of kilns.
207495
Surname: Bowtell Brickyard (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 15 May 1867
Place: Burwood, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Inquest held by Dr. Pierce at the house of Thomas Dent of the Burwood Inn, before a jury of five consisting of William Smith (foreman), Enoch Williams, James Gibbs, Charles Byrnes, Alfred Sparks and Thomas Llewellyn, into the death of Arthur Bowtell and Richard Haddaway at the Bowtell brickyard earlier that day. Joseph Bowtell deposed that he was a brickmaker by trade, and father of the deceased Arthur Bowtell. On that day at about 12pm he was loading bricks out of the kiln when the roof fell in on all who were working there, Richard Haddaway, Arthur Bowtell, William Davis, carter and himself; they were taking out eleven or twelve loads of bricks out of the kiln, the walls of which had been built six weeks, but the arch of which had only been put on the previous week. The walls were about ten feet high, the kiln being twelve feet wide by twenty two feet long, the walls about twenty six inches and the arch fourteen inches. The highest part of the arch above the wall was six feet. They were all engaged in loading when the roof fell in; about 5000 bricks fell on the deceased. The roof was built of bricks held with a substance called pug, loomy clay always used in building brick kilns. Witness had been brick making nearly all his lifetime. He had never however built an arched kiln before building this one. The deceased Haddaway came down from Maitland by the train that morning looking for work. Witness agreed to employ him. He had only been working half an hour when the accident happened. The kiln was built by Henry Chandler, a competent bricklayer. it was constructed in the usual style and form of kilns.
203749
Surname: Bradford Cotton Mill, Kotara
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1953
Place: Kotara
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 27 October 1948; Sydney Morning Herald 19 May 1953
Details: 27 acres of land purchased in 1948 from the New Lambton Land and Coal Company at Kotara; A huge barrel-vault roof, built of concrete only 3 in thick is a conspicuous feature of the new Bradford cotton Mills at Kotara. It is one of the first thin shell concrete roofs to be built in Australia. Two main advantages are claimed for a thin concrete roof compared with the traditional factory roof of asbestos cement sheets on steel trusses – 1) it gives the staff better conditions, because the roof has a clean under surface where no cotton fluff or dust can accumulate . 2). It is cooler in summer than the usual kind of factory roof as it has low thermal conductivity. Factory coolness is important in cotton spinning where both humidity and temperature have to be controlled. To aid this control the factory has been constructed without windows and is artificially ventilated and lighted. There are 14 barrel vaults in the roof, most of them being 37 ft between their springing lines. They are supported on columns. The finished roof covers a factory 519 ft long and 140 ft wide. The consulting engineers were R. Crooks and F. C. Michell. The builder was W. J. Bradshaw