Hunter Valley Archives ~ Photo Time Tunnel

Headframe of Stanford Main colliery at Paxton in 1987. Photo by Don Ebbott

Dangerous days deep underground at Paxton.

Greg Ray
June 2, 2019
History / Miscellaneous
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Fred Caban started work at Stanford Main No. 2 mine at Paxton in 1947 when the mine employed 400 men and produced 1000 tonnes of coal a day. One thing…

A Paterson River incident: when the Guthrey ran aground.

Greg Ray
May 28, 2019
History / Newcastle / vintage photographs
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For a number of years early last century, riverboat excursions from Newcastle Harbour to destinations such as Hinton, Seaham and Paterson were popular. Steamboats of various shapes and sizes (including…

Missionary John S Austin, at 70, from his book

Trauma and tragedy in the life of a Hunter Valley preacher in the 19th Century

Greg Ray
April 20, 2019
History / Miscellaneous
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As a young circuit preacher at Murrurundi, in the Upper Hunter Valley of NSW in the 1860s - then later at Maitland, Singleton and Newcastle - the Reverend John S.…