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203384
Surname: City Arms Hotel; Central Hotel, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1870
Place: 152 Hunter-street, Newcastle
Source: The Newcastle Sun 29 March 1950
Details: City Arms Hotel, on the eastern corner of Market and Hunter Streets. The hotel was erected on portion of the Market Reserve. On May 15 1870 a licence was granted to Joseph Walmsley who was followed by other publicans. Eventually a verandah was added in the front of the building extending along Hunter St. and down Market St. The title was later changed to the Central Hotel (1903). Architect Architect F. B. Menkens
203280
Surname: City Incinerator
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: c. 1937
Place: Corner Ravenshaw and Parry Streets, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle CBD Heritage Study, 1988; Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA
Details: City Incinerator c. 1937, corner of Ravenshaw and Parry street. The chimney was an important landmark. Architecturally important winning the Sulman medal in 1938. The only building of its type remaining in the region in 1988. ARCHITECT F. A. Scorer Builders Baker and Lamb
203281
Surname: Civic Park, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1929
Place: 201 King-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 12 December 1929
Details: On the occasion of the opening of the Town Hall in 1929, The Newcastle Morning Herald described the Park land - The task of beautifying the surroundings has fallen to Mr. Cummins, the City Engineer, and Mr. Colman, the Superintendent of Gardens. They have fulfilled this task and apart from the actual turfing of the western and sloping plots immediately in front of the Town Hall, they have cleared, levelled and grassed the large block of land facing the Town Hall and bounded by the railway line of the A. A. Co, King, Auckland and Laman Streets. This land, until recently was occupied with the plant of Mr. Andrew Cook, once Mayor of the City as a sawmill and timber yard.
203799
Surname: Civic Railway Station - Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1935
Place: Newcastle
Source: The Newcastle Sun 1 May 1935;
Details: Demolition of the old brick and woodwork buildings in railway yards opposite the Civic Block is progressing steadily In preparation for the construction of the new Civic railway station. Machinery Is being shifted from the old planning mill, and what was a fit ting shop in the old days, but had later been used as a carriage shed, is being pulled down. About 30 men have been engaged for the past fortnight in demolition, and about 15 bricklayers and assist ants have been laying foundations and building a retaining wall for the new platforms. The retaining wall on one side of the lines has been completed about one-third of its length, and foundations are being laid on the other side. It was announced to-day that more men would be engaged soon for the relaying of electric cables. Most of these would be local men.
203809
Surname: Claremont, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 13 June 1936
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: William Croasdill acquired the allotment of land adjoining the Newcastle Club in Newcomen-street known as Claremont, where he lived for many years. The old residence now belonging to the Newcastle Club, was kept in good condition, and was one of the historic homes of Newcastle
203385
Surname: Club Hotel; Glasgow Arms Hotel; Carrington
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1938-1939
Place: 26 Cowper-street North, Carrington
Source: Newcastle Sun 30 November 1938
Details: This hotel was built in 1938-1939 and the license transferred from the Glasgow Arms across the road to this hotel, also to be known as The Glasgow Arms In 1939 the Newcastle Sun reported: The Glasgow Arms Hotel at Carrington is to be demolished and a new modern hotel erected an another site at an estimated cost of £8500. Permission to do the work was granted to the licensee, John James Lachlan Stevens, by Mr. T. W. Cohen, at the Newcastle Licensing Court to-day. It is proposed to remove the licence from the present site at the corner of Cowper-street South and Young streets to another on the corner of Cowper-street North, Young-street, and Cowper-street South. Archer C. Castleden, architect, produced plans of the new hotel and said that it was to be built just across the street from the old premises. The existing hotel provided a requirement in the neighbourhood, but the new one would do it more adequately. The cost would be £8500, and it would take 12 months to build. The old hotel was 63 years old and in a dilapidated condition
203387
Surname: Clyde Hotel, Carrington
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Corner Cowper and Little Young Streets, Carrington
Source: NMH 15 January 1921; The Newcastle Sun 10 September 1924
Details: In 1921 Frank Silva was the Licensee and Wood Brothers, the owners. In investigations by the Licenses Reduction Board, the following was revealed: The hotel had five rooms available to the public and all were in use. There were three other hotels within 25 yards. Various people were interviewed. The hotel had been well conducted and there were no fines against it. The hotel catered for meals for waterside workers., George Marsden, stevedore said the hotel was about 200 yards from the inner basin at Carrington. Every class of people visited the hotel for meals. The hotel was required for the convenience of the locality. Frank Silva said he had had the hotel for thirteen years and had been hotel keeping I the district for twenty five years. In connection with coal loading it was a common thing for ship’s crews to have their meals ashore at the hotel particularly so, the Union Company’s steamers crews. Despite several good recommendations, the Clyde, was one of 23 licenced premises closed under the Licence reduction act in 1921. In 1924 the Mission to Seamen purchased the de-licensed Hotel with the intention of opening a Seamen s Club which would be run in conjunction with the Chelmsford Institute at Stockton. It would be a place where seamen from ships in the Basin could enjoy an evening away from the ship.
203464
Surname: Clydeside Store
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 24 January 1863
Place: Hunter-street, between the Ship and Steam Packet Hotels
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Advertisement - F. Smith and Co., on and after 27th January will carry on their business in the premises lately occupied by Mr. Foster, and now the Clydeside Store where all customers will find first-class groceries
203852
Surname: Coal Shaft, Newcstle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 11 July 1863
Place: Church-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: At the Newcastle Muncipal Council meeting it was moved by Alderman Bolton, seconded by Alderman Fleming That the Mayor be empowered to make the necessary arrangements for covering the coal shaft , Church-street in. Carried
207442
Surname: Coal Staiths Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 3 December 1868
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Screw Piles invented by engineer Alexander Mitchell in England were cast in the foundry of Archibald Rogers at Newcastle NSW. They were to be used in the new Government coal-staiths at the harbour
203388
Surname: Colliery Inn, Wallsend
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: 87 Cowper-street, cnr Metcalfe-street, Wallsend
Source: Australian Heritage Database
Details: DESCRIBED in the Australian Heritage Database as - An imposing double storey Functionalist Art Deco corner hotel built principally of cream brickwork with pink/brown panels. The facade sweeps around the corner into Metcalfe Street, with a recessed main entrance on the curve facing the busy intersection, and two other doorway ensembles facing the gently sloping Cowper Street. A cantilever awning divides the building horizontally, a single bullnosed step making the awning lower over the corner entrance before it too sweeps around into the side street, the awning has a horizontally ribbed mental fascia and a ceiling of pressed metal in an Art Deco pattern of concentric squares
203397
Surname: Comercial Hotel; Gates Hotel, Adamstown
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: 660 Glebe-road, Adamstown
Source: -
Details: The Gates Hotel was formerly known as the Commercial Hotel. William Russell was licensee prior to 1902
203389
Surname: Commercial Hotel, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1886
Place: Cnr Scott and Newcomen Streets, Newcastle
Source: Plan of Newcastle by Mahlstedt and Gee, surveyors and draughtsmen dated January 1886. State Library NSW. MMS ID 991023540059702626
Details: In 1886 this site on the south-west corner of Scott street was occupied by Robert Reay’s Commercial Hotel. Robert Reay of Wallsend had taken over the license from George Lindsay in September 1882.
203306
Surname: Commercial Inn, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: 49 Hunter-street (cnr Hunter and Watt), Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate 9 September 1897
Details: The Commercial Inn was owned by Newcastle businessman Simon Kemp in the 1830s. Innkeepers over the years included John Rowell, Hugh McMillan, Ann McNamara, Thomas Groves, Wick Norton and Joseph Croft. The Inn was destroyed by fire in 1859. THE FIRST THEATRE in Newcastle – It was in 1854 that the first theatrical made his appearance in Newcastle in the person of a Mr. Muriel, who placed Bombastee Furioso in the old stockade at the rear of the Custom House. Messrs. C.H.Hannell, A.A.P. Tighe, and Matthews assisted in the performance, and a distinct success was scored. The building afforded little or no comfort, and Mr. Muriel waited upon and advised Mr. J. Croft who was the licensee of the Commercial Hotel, where the A.J.S. Bank later stood, to erect a theatre, which he did, the building extending from the present bank corner as far as Lashmore s in Hunter Street
203282
Surname: Commissariat Store
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1822
Place: 28 Watt-street, Newcastle
Source: -
Details: This was the site of the Commissariat Store from 1822 - 1830; In 1845 - 1860 W. H. Whyte was owner of the allotment. In 1886 Dr. Cosby W. Morgan; and in 1901 Surgeon Richard Ryther Steer Bowker. In 1940 Athcourt Flats building was constructed
203758
Surname: Commonwealth Oil Refineries, Dangarville, Wickham
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 7 October 1933; 18 December 1939
Place: Wickham
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Starting at the junction of Cottage and Throsby creeks, going north to Tighe s Creek, the whole of the land fronting this space was bought at public auction by Messrs Dangar, Fleming, Hannell and Wentworth. A large portion of these properties was cleared and fenced, and the only way they could be reached at that time was by a track from Blane street along the foreshore, the greater part of which was covered at high tide. The properties were known as Dangarville, Linwood, Maryville and The Point. The first residence was built in 1854 on the Dangarville area, on the site later occupied by the Commonwealth Oil Company; 1939 – Oil tank explosion and fire – The Commonwealth Oil Company Explosion – “A dull explosion coming from the direction of the oil tanks started residents of Wickham and the Bank Corner at about 2.50pm. A signalman employed at the Hannell street signal box among others head the detonation and felt the ground tremble”. There were calls for the removal of the plant after this fire
102021
Surname: Convict Hospital Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1850 8 May
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Auction on the premises of the materials of thebuildings of the late convict hospital and stockade barracks at Newcastle
102022
Surname: Convict Stockade Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1833 16 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Tenders called for the construction of a Stockade on the site of the old Lumber Yard at Newcastle and for repairs and alterations therein. The whole being for accommodation of Iron Gangs
203413
Surname: Corpus Christie Catholic Church, Waratah
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1934
Place: 70 Platt-street, Waratah
Source: Newcastle City Wide Heritage Study 1997 - Volume 4
Details: Two storey facebrick work building symmetrical in design. Roof structure is hipped with half hipped roofs to end wings of buildings. Centre of building projects towards street with hipped roof and terra cotta tiling over. Simple brick columns support balcony and roof over. Decorative brickwork detail to balcony. Internal stairs to either side of building emphasized with slender vertical glazing Opened in April 1934
203390
Surname: Cosmopolitan Hotel, Carrington
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1905
Place: 155 Young-street, Carrington
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald 10 June 1905
Details: A fine building containing thirty-five rooms, situated at the corner of Young street and Darval street, built by Mr. H. Davis, from a design and plans prepared by Alderman Thomas Smith, has just been completed, Mr. C. Saunders, of Wickham was the contractor for the building, and Messrs. Armstrong and Royse, timber merchants and joiners, in the same town supplied the fittings, which were supervised by their foreman Mr. W. Bennett. The hotel is to be opened today by Mr. Davis. The whole reflects credit upon the designer and architect, the builder, and the firm who had the placing in of the interior fittings. The hotel is nearly finished and will compare very favourable with the leading licensed houses in the city and district