300 diamond rings a year: Caldwells jewellers
WHEN Geoff Caldwell left Newcastle Boys High School in the 1930s, he told his father he wanted to be an engineer. His father laughed at the idea. "Dad told me I should just join the…
William Fraser in one of his own trick photographs - taking his own picture.
William Fraser, cabinet-maker and photographer
Among the photographers active in Newcastle in the early 20th century, William Fraser deserves a special place. William might be described as a "semi-professional" photographer, since his main job was…
Newcastle in the 1870s, from The Town and Country Journal
Newcastle’s glorious municipal leaders
Honestly, I had to laugh out loud. What started out as a more-or-less po-faced description in an 1872 newspaper of the fledgling town of Newcastle, NSW, turned into a hilarious…