Guayaquil in Newcastle, 1973
Balsa raft visits Newcastle, 1973
In 1973 Newcastle Harbour received a strange visitor in the shape of a balsa wood raft, not unlike the famous Kon-Tiki which Thor Heyerdahl used to cross the Pacific Ocean…
Headframe of Stanford Main colliery at Paxton in 1987. Photo by Don Ebbott
Dangerous days deep underground at Paxton.
Fred Caban started work at Stanford Main No. 2 mine at Paxton in 1947 when the mine employed 400 men and produced 1000 tonnes of coal a day. One thing…
The builder's plate from the vintage Crossley tourer
Bushland find a missing link for a vintage car project
In April 2008 I took my son Oliver metal-detecting. We'd been to beaches a few times, but this particular weekend we decided to go to bushland near the Newcastle suburb…