This delightful panoramic view of Newcastle Harbour, taken from Cathedral Hill, was created between 1899 and 1907 by Charleston Studios, a prominent photographic presence in the city at the time.
It has been scanned from a folding copy in an old pamphlet and the digital copy has been carefully restored by Sylvia Ray.
In the front right is a portion of the since-dismantled Cathedral graveyard. Stockton shows large in the background, with the masts of the sunken ship Regent Murray (lost in 1899) poking above the waterline at the end of the Oyster Bank. The old David Cohen warehouse is the big building almost in the centre of the picture. This building burned down in January 1908, so this feature assists in dating the photograph.
Hi Greg, just north of the cemetery, the recently-demolished c1862 tw-storey timber Victorian Rustic Gothic residence owned by Mortimer Lewis jnr can cleary be seen. Until a few weeks ago, this was the oldest timber building in Newcastle. Just wondering its if its possible to get an enlargement of the right (eastern) half of the 1902 panorama. The panorama appears on the rear cover of Norm Barney’s ‘First 200 years cheers, Mark