Newcastle Archives ~ Photo Time Tunnel

Aerial view of the Sygna aground in May 1974.

The Sygna storm of May 1974

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:May 27, 2020
Post Category:Greg Ray's Writing / History / Newcastle / vintage photographs
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If you ask most older Newcastle people where they were on the night the Norwegian bulk carrier Sygna went aground on Stockton Beach, they’ll probably be able to tell you.…

Building the Hexham Bridge over the Hunter River

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:May 15, 2020
Post Category:History / Miscellaneous / Newcastle / vintage photographs
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Long before anybody considered building a bridge across the Hunter River at Hexham, people crossed by punt. A convenient crossroads and staging point between Newcastle, Maitland and Port Stephens -…

A sketch, from a New Zealand newspaper, of the sinking Helen B Sterling.

Newcastle schoolboy’s shipwreck story

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:May 7, 2020
Post Category:History / Miscellaneous / Newcastle
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Stockton schoolboy Leslie Harris was 10 years old on January 5, 1922, when he went aboard the four-masted schooner Helen B Sterling, along with his mother Edith and his father…

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