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Read more about the article When Newcastle went with Jayes

When Newcastle went with Jayes

Jayes Travel Service was an iconic Newcastle business through a large part of the 20th century. The founders, John and Lottie Jenkins (pictured below), came to Newcastle in 1928, having emigrated from Scotland in 1920. Their first business in Newcastle was in accountancy and collections. John and Lottie Jenkins, circa 1920 The Depression made business hard to come by, and Lottie started helping Katoomba guest houses find staff to run their operations, trading as Jayes Employment Agency.John Jenkins had served in World War 1, but signed up again to fight in World War II. Lottie kept…

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Read more about the article The Coffee Pot, at Toronto and Merewether
The Coffee Pot at Toronto.

The Coffee Pot, at Toronto and Merewether

It looked a lot like an old-fashioned outdoor toilet with wheels, with its weatherboard cladding and hopelessly unstreamlined shape. But the "Coffee Pot" was a remarkably serviceable little steam tram motor that functioned from 1899 to 1909 as a weekend picnic conveyance at Toronto and later as a coal-hauling engine at Howley's Colliery at Merewether. The Coffee Pot, looking its best, with trail car attached. The Coffee Pot was built in Sydney by Hudson Brothers. It was originally owned by Thomas Saywell, owner of coal interests on the NSW South Coast. It was used on the…

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Read more about the article Endgame for a plague species?

Endgame for a plague species?

Doomsday messages are thick on the ground these days. And no wonder. While people argue about whether continuing to alter the composition of the atmosphere is harmful or not, undeniable damage is piling up all around. The latest UN report on biodiversity, with its sombre warning of millions more species extinctions on the way, is just the latest signpost on a long bad road. Human activity is stripping the globe of its remaining forests at a rapid rate. The oceans have been mined of much of their living inhabitants and are still being used as sewers…

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