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The Rose Stereograph Company: a snapshot

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:July 16, 2021
Post category:History Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vintage Photographs and Photography
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Anybody in Australia who pays even a little attention to old postcards will soon encounter some of the products of the Rose Stereograph Company. The publishing output of this long-lived…

View from Bank Corner of the 1939 oil tank fire at Wickham. Photo by Russ Hughes.

The great oil fires of Wickham, NSW

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:July 10, 2021
Post category:History Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vintage Photographs and Photography
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Wickham residents were startled by a loud explosion at about 2pm on Saturday, December 16, 1939. Within moments the cause was clear: one of the huge fuel storage tanks owned…

Adolphe, Newcastle’s most enduring shipwreck

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:May 26, 2021
Post category:History Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vintage Photographs and Photography
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For well over a century, residents of the port city of Newcastle, NSW, have lived with the wreck of the French barque Adolphe, lost on September 30, 1904. The remains…