Bridging the Hawkesbury River: Part 1
When the first railway bridge over the Hawkesbury River was opened on May 1, 1889, it completed the final link in a rail system that linked NSW with South Australia,…
Daniel Defoe’s London Journal of the Plague Year: insights for the year 2020
PUBLISHED in 1722, A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe, is full of relevance in the year of COVID-19. Not because the diseases are similar: they aren't. But…
Ken Magor, fireman, transport enthusiast and compulsive collector
Ken Magor was a passionate Newcastle-based collector of transport and fire brigade memorabilia who, at the time of his death in 1993, had amassed about 250,000 photographic negatives, in addition…