Parnell Park in 1940, with the old courthouse pillar prominent
Pillar of the community quietly disappeared
I didn't know it had gone until I went for a walk in Parnell Place and realised something was missing. It took a while to figure out what it was, and when I did I still hunted around for a while, thinking I'd simply remembered its location wrongly. But no, the old pillar monument - one of the pillars that once supported the portico of Newcastle's earlier courthouse. The old courthouse once stood on the corner of Hunter and Bolton Streets, where the grand sandstone former post office building now stands awaiting restoration. That corner was,…
