Bridging the Hawkesbury River: Part 1
When the first railway bridge over the Hawkesbury River was opened on May 1, 1889, it completed the final link in a rail system that linked NSW with South Australia,…
Photos from the Bank Notes article about Comsteel.
Vickers-Comsteel, Newcastle, NSW, 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…
Nobbys Headland,
Newcastle, NSW, c1900
Newcastle’s great days of sail
WHEN steamships were perfected, they inevitably put an end to the long era of sail as a means of trading commodities across the globe. But sailing ships lingered for decades,…