Gravestones to be returned to the Cathedral cemetery
About 40 gravestones now in storage at Newcastle City Council's works depot are expected to be restored and replaced in their original positions at the city's Christ Church Anglican Cathedral.…
Doug Lithgow in his study with framed copies of the charts he found in the Hydrographic Office of the British Navy in 2008
The mysterious case of the vanishing “natives”
Doug Lithgow, Freeman of the City of Newcastle, NSW, and noted campaigner for the environment and heritage, can cite many high points in his long life of activism and community…
Walsh Island Dockyard in 1929
Industrial and commercial newsletters and in-house publications are a rich source of fascinating historical material, often of a type that can't be found anywhere else. One of my favourite Australian…