Newcastle, NSW, Australia Archives

A BHP loco in 1927, John Jobson and Ellaroo, the first ship in Newcastle's "new" floating dock, 1929

John Jobson’s BHP and other photographs

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:January 10, 2022
Post category:History Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vintage Photographs and Photography
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A bundle of photographic prints, handed to me recently, jogged my memory somehow. The matt black envelopes in which the photos had been stored - evidently for a long time…

Newcastle’s Obelisk and “the social evil”

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:November 19, 2021
Post category:History Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Was Newcastle's famous Obelisk once a site for illicit sexual assignations? It may have been, if I have understood the transcript of an 1866 public meeting correctly. The transcript, created…

Old envelopes, old businesses

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:November 15, 2021
Post category:History Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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When we first acquired some of the late Ken Magor's vast collection of photographic negatives, many of the negatives were stored in second-hand envelopes that Ken had evidently scavenged from…