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Christ Church Cathedral’s migrating gravestones

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:February 22, 2019
Post category:History Miscellaneous Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vintage Photographs and Photography
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The story of the migrating gravestones first caught my attention more than a decade ago when genealogist Dave Hughes showed me some photos of pieces of headstones used as landscaping…

How many hopes lie buried here? Plague in Newcastle 1905

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:January 21, 2019
Post category:History Miscellaneous Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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There is (or was?) an unofficial car park at the eastern boundary of the Stockton Centre where fishermen would leave their cars before walking to the beach. Beside the wooden…

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