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Newcastle in the 1870s, from The Town and Country Journal

Newcastle’s glorious municipal leaders

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:September 4, 2019
Post category:Greg Ray's Writing History Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Post comments:1 Comment

Honestly, I had to laugh out loud. What started out as a more-or-less po-faced description in an 1872 newspaper of the fledgling town of Newcastle, NSW, turned into a hilarious…

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