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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

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

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…