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203774
Surname: Breckenridge Timber Mill, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 26 October 1929
Place: King-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Sun
Details: The timber mills of R. Breckenridge, Ltd., in King-street Newcastle, were gutted by fire early this morning. The fire spread rapidly and threatened to sweep the whole block, but firemen from city and district stations made a remarkable save. Masses of twisted iron, machinery and charred wood were all that remained of the timber yard, one of the biggest in Newcastle. Damage was estimated at about 14,000 pounds. When the brigades arrived, it was found that the fire had a strong hold and, with a westerly wind behind it, was spreading at express rate from the western corner of the premises towards the block of engineering works and markets in Darby-street. The fire had licked the rear portion of Varleys engineering works in Darby-street, a hardware storage shed, and a hardware showroom skirting King-street, which is part of Breckenridge s premises. In the mill were about a score of expensive wood working machines each of which was badly damaged by fire and water. Those which were on the first floor crashed down among the ruins beneath when the fire ate its way through the supporting girders. Timber workers who turned up for work at the mill this morning looked glum. We were out for weeks and we have come back to this, said one, who was looking towards another spell of unemployment
203373
Surname: Britannia Hotel, Cooks Hill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Cooks Hill
Source: Newcastle and Suburbs Sheet 065 (No. of Lith. M.95.289) - City of Newcastle, Hamilton and Merewether, 1896 New South Wales. Department of Lands Date: Between 1st January 1896 and 31st December 1896
Details: The Britannia Hotel was situated on the corner of Kenrick and Melville Streets, Cooks Hill
203270
Surname: Broadmeadow Aerodrome
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1929 - 1963
Place: 2 Denney-street, Broadmeadow
Source: Wikipedia
Details: Broadmeadow Aerodrome was an aerodrome located at District Park, Broadmeadow, Australia, operating from 1929 to 1963. The Newcastle Aero Club (NAC) selected a site after careful consideration and began preparations and cleared the land at District Park in 1928, to create a grassed runway. The first aircraft to land at the aerodrome was an Avro 504K, registered as VH-UBC, on 4 September 1929, which had Newcastle s Own painted on one side of the tail rudder and Spirit of Newcastle painted on the other side. The first Tiger Moth in Australia delivered on 2 June 1935, registered as VH-UTD and named Halycon, was kept at the aerodrome by the NAC. Early pioneering aviators Charles Kingsford Smith, Jean Batten and Bert Hinkler visited the aerodrome during their flights up and down the east coast of Australia. During World War II, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) utilised the aerodrome as a satellite aerodrome to RAAF Base Williamtown.
203272
Surname: Broadmeadow Racecourse
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: 100 Darling-street, Broadmeadow
Source: Draft Newcastle LEP 2000 – Heritage Review Part A
Details: The historic research indicates that the racecourse has been a key component in the development of racing in the area, and has played a significant role in that industry within the state. The racecourse grounds retain a number of buildings from the original construction of the course at the start of the 20th century, and representative examples of many periods since then. The most significant buildings on the site include the main Public Grandstand, the Members Grandstand and the old Tote building (now the equine hospital)
203374
Surname: Broadway Hotel, Broadmeadow
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1924 - 1989
Place: Broadmeadow
Source: -
Details: The Broadmeadow Hotel opened in 1924 and was demolished after the 1989 earthquake
203271
Surname: Brooks-street, Cooks Hill
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Cooks Hill
Source: Newcastle Sun 2 May 1918, p. 4
Details: Brooks-street Cooks Hill was Named after Surgeon George Brooks, Government medical officer
203407
Surname: Brown Street Congregational Church, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Brown-street, Newcastle
Source: Brown St. Congregational Church, Newcastle; centenary history 1853-1953 A Centenary History compiled by W. G. Courtman, Church Secretary in 1953 Camden Theological College
Details: The local Congregationalists used to hold services in what was known as the Long Room, then occupying a portion of the site on which Howard Smiths building in Watt Street now stands. At a later date the place of meeting was changed to the old Court House which stood on the site now occupied by the General Post Office. No record is available dealing with the actual building of the Brown Street Church, which was carried out probably about 1853. It seems to be common knowledge that two sites were offered by the Australian Agricultural Company to the little band of Congregationalists, then known as Independents - that which is now occupied by the Australia and New Zealand Bank at the corner of Hunter and Brown Streets, and that upon which the church now stands. Lest we of a later generation should fall into the error of questioning the wisdom of the choice made by the pioneers of Brown Street, it should be clearly understood that one hundred years ago the site which was rejected was not above flood level.
211002
Surname: Brown Street Congregational Church, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 21 September 1934
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Newcastle Sun
Details: The commencement in New castle of the Congregational Church, which will celebrate Its 81st anniversary on Sunday, is shrouded in mystery. It is probable that a few Congregationalists met together in a house for some years before public services were commenced. The first definite date in the history of the Brown-street church is 1851. Twelve years later searchers found a resolution in the church minutes thanking the Colonial Congregational Home Missionary Society for the liberal support it had given the church from the time it had sent a minister in 1851. In August, 1853, Rev. John Gibson was sent to Newcastle by the Home Missionary Society, equipped with a Bible, a hymn, book, a horse and a saddle. The purpose of the visit, was to preach here and obtain information with a view to establishing an Independent cause. Four months after his arrival, Mr. Gibson started collecting money to pay for the erection of a place of worship. As a result, the northern part of the Brown-street church was built. The work was begun probably in 1855, but delay was caused by the insolvency of the first contractor, and by the decision to build a school hall underneath the church. OPENED IN 1856 The official opening services were held on Wednesday, September 28, 1856. Though not architecturally ambitious, the church building has a bold exterior and a dignified interior, which the years have enriched and hallowed Contributions and promises amounting to £215 were gathered to reduce the manse debt in 1868. In the list of contributors was the Duke of Edinburgh, who visited Newcastle that year. Regular morning and evening collections and the weekly offerings by envelope were introduced, and this system still constitutes the backbone of the church s finance. Another progressive move was made in 1868, when the old oil lamps were replaced by gas. To celebrate its 81st anniversary, the Brown-street Congregational Church will hold special services on Sunday. The preachers will be Rev. Joan Hore in the morning, and Rev. Absalom Deans at night. There will be an anniversary dinner in the school hall on Thursday.
38809
Surname: Bullock Island
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1848 16 February
Place: Hunter River
Source: MM
Details: 21 acres sold at 2 pounds per acre
89551
Surname: Bullock Island
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1852 21 April
Place: An island in the Hunter River above Newcastle.Also earlier known as Chapman Island and much later as Carrington
Source: MM
Details: Captain Blyth of the vessel Zylon drowned near Bullock Island
111328
Surname: Bullock Island
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1848 8 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Bullock Island allotments for sale. 2 pounds per acre. 18 acres 3 roods. Allotment No. 16
132181
Surname: Bullock Island
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1861 21 August
Place: Newcastle
Source: SMH
Details: Money voted in the last Session for construction of a dyke in front of Bullock Island, for the purpose of increasing the scour in the coal channel and thereby deepening it
168115
Surname: Bullock Island
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 20 January 1872
Place: Newcastle
Source: Empire
Details: The residents of Bullock Island met together for the purpose of considering the advisability of erecting a public school at that place. It was stated that as many as eighty children could be got to attend the school as the parents were in favour of its establishment from the fact that at the present time any children attending schools in Newcastle were compelled to cross the river, and after that the railway line, where great danger existed from the liability to being run over by passing trains. A committee was formed to carry out the object of the meeting
203273
Surname: Bullock Island Bridge
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Carrington - Newcastle
Source: Bert Lovetts - Between the River and the Sea by Norm Barney with Terry Callen, p. 13
Details: Denison Street, or Bullock Island bridge between Carrington and Worth street, Newcastle. Carrington was linked to the mainland by three bridges; the Darvall Street bridge, the Cowper Street bridge (then used for railway traffic only) and this one. This bridge was demolished just before World War 1
203751
Surname: Bullock Island Colliery, Carrington
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1880s
Place: Carrington
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 27 March 1937
Details: In the early eighties the Wickham and Bullock Island pit was sunk almost where Armstrong and Royse timber mills were later. It was near the then railway line, and was edged with mud flats and tidal waters. Many miners came from other parts, and the township began to flourish in a big way for the first time
203752
Surname: Burnley Tunnel adit, New Lambton
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Hobart-road, New Lambton
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 20 April 1931
Details: Isaac Burnley worked most of the time in the Lambton colliery and was also associated with his father in working several small land sale mines. One tunnel in particular (known as Burnleys) was driven into the hillside at New Lambton, and the coal brought to the surface near what is now the New Lambton Park. He was also associated in partnership in a small colliery formerly known as the Dog and Rat
85903
Surname: Burwood Colliery (Newcastle, Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1851 20 September
Place: Burwood Colliery Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: H & J. Donaldson advertising to employ a few steady miners.industrious men could earn 10/- per day
203753
Surname: Burwood Copper Smelter
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Burwood
Source: Newcastle City Wide Heritage Study 1997 - Volume 4
Details: First copper smelter to be attempted in Australia. Construction began in 1846. Because of the A. A. Company’s coal monopoly, the announced intention was to produce salt. It was built by Dr. James Mitchell and transferred to the Newcastle Coal and Copper Company. It was built to smelt South Australian Copper with Newcastle Coal however was never successful
85710
Surname: Burwood Copper Smelter (Newcastle) (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1851 6 September
Place: Dr. Mitchell s Burwood Estate
Source: MM
Details: Situated in a small glen 3 miles from Newcastle. Surrounded with hills forming a natural amphitheatre abutting on the shore known as the Long Beach. Superintendent Mr. Morgan
81963
Surname: Burwood Copper Smelting Works (Industry)
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1851 15 February
Place: Burwood
Source: MM
Details: First consignment of copper ore received per the Catherine. Smelting operations to commence soon as furnaces etc almost completed