Newcastle in the late days of sail.
Buried treasure: Newcastle’s “Maritime Museum”
As a major global port with an extraordinary maritime history, one might suppose that Newcastle would have a maritime museum as a matter of course. Some years ago you would have been right, but not any more. Newcastle Maritime Museum once occupied one of the old Lee Wharf sheds on Newcastle's harbour-front, restored from dereliction with $2.4 million raised by the museum's dedicated volunteer committee. But in 2018 the museum was forced to leave this building - which had apparently been earmarked from the start of the city's Honeysuckle urban renewal project for community use -…
