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Name KEARNS top cat

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Person ID I236 NewcastleLinks

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Photos

'Panorama Newcastle 1890-91'

'Hexham Punt (Vehicle Ferry)'

'Newcastle Beach on a warm summer`s day in 1963'

'Mr Glass`s Wind Mixture'

'Carrington 1905'

'Newcastle Harbour from Carrington around 1905'

'Newcastle Hospital 1950s. Approaching storm'

'Newcastle Train Station, 2013'

'Thursday - 26th May 1960'

'Nineways, Broadmeadow, December 3, 1935. '

'Farm in New Lambton 1896'

'Public Executions held up to 1848'

'Corner of Wolfe and Hunter Streets, 25th of August 1910'

'LYRIC THEATRE, Wolfe St, 1960s.'

'Mater Hospital Waratah'

'Skyline drivein lambton'

'Drivein theatre lambton'

'Hexham bridge under construction 1951'

'ELL`s in Hunter Street'

'Hunter street mall 1970s'

'WICKHAM GATES 1940s'

'Swansea Bridge January 1956'

'Nobby`s Breakwall'

'Beaumont st hamilton 1950s?'

'Newcastle Harbour 1800s'

'No. 6 East Basin Hydraulic Crane 1914'

'1879 Carrington Dyke'

'Newcastle 1807. Found online, Newcastle Regional Library, artist T R Browne'

'Brown St Congregational church'

'c1890s ~ 2018'

'Zara Street Power Station'

'Early Newcastle Harbour... [no date / photographer given]'

'Wharf Road.....70`s'

'The Hill and Obelisk, Newcastle 1915 Source: UofN, Living Histories'

'Century Broadmeadow'

'Old Shops of Newcastle'

'Hunter St Newcastle NSW, 1960s. Photo from Newcastle Library.'

'Maitland Rd Islington NSW, 1940s. Photo from Newcastle Library.'

'BHP Steel Works'

'Wharf Road Newcastle c1950s.....'

'Sandgate - Hexham - Pacific Highway - (c.1950).... Has Changed a little...'

'Mayfield - still with tram tracks'

'1940s - HUNTER STREET - Photograph; Newcastle Herald Collections'

'Busy Hunter Street 1950'

'The iron barque `City of Lahore` as `Dursideer` 989 tons, wrecked at Newcastle. 1895'

'More Old Newcastle Buses'

'Very Old Time Mayfield Bus'

'Scott Street Newcastle, NSW. February 15, 1937'

'Mattara Festival Parade'

'The Dunny Man'

'The Big Mosquito'

'The Steelworks viewed from Kooragang Island 1965. '

'Hexham Bridge'

'King St Raymond Terrace c1900`s...'

'Newcastle Coop Store'

'Old Postcard - King Edward Park'

'Old Postcard - Civic Park'

'10.27am on Thursday, 28 December 1989'

'Aerial Looking Over Newcastle'

'Broadmeadow Aerodrome was an aerodrome located at District Park, Broadmeadow, Australia, operating '

'Enjoy the horse and cart from the Co-op Store. Photo taken at Charlestown in 1970'

'Toward the East End.....1969'

'BAR BEACH CAR PARK, 20.02.1950'

'TRAFFIC AT HUNTER AND SCOTT STREETS, NEWCASTLE, DATE - 1890s'

'Peter`s Ice Cream Factory, Darby Street, Cooks Hill, 22.09.1973'

'Before Newcastle Ocean Baths 1900'

'Before Newcastle Ocean Baths were built.'

'Hexham Bridge in the open position'

'Newcastle Street 1920s'

'Steel Street Markets, Newcastle'

'Steel Street Markets, Newcastle'

'Opening Mayfield steam tram 11 January 1901'

'Penny Farthing bicycles outside the Old Courthouse, Hunter St, Newcastle NSW on Sept 3rd 1892'

'Holden crosses at the opening of the Hexham Bridge, Newcastle, 17 December 1952'

'BROADMEADOW STATION 1945'

'At the Beaumont Street railway gates, Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, January 19, 1941.'

'Newcastle Coastline'

'1950`s kitchen'

'Marcus Clark store, Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW, January 23, 1963.'

'Newcastle Railway Station, Newcastle, NSW, 1886'

'Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle East, NSW, November 1892'

'1937.... N.C.M.COLLIERY TRAIN CROSSING HUNTER STREET.'

'SCOTT STREET, NEWCASTLE 1915'

'Population Survey Newcastle 1871 : Source: Town & Country Almanac'

'FACILITIES FOR SHIPPING COAL ETC AT NEWCASTLE 1869'

'High St West Maitland, looking west, 1914'

'Corner of Hunter Street and Bolton Street Newcastle - 1940s Photograph; NMH'

'Drive-in Ad. 1968 NMH'

'Newcastle Harbour, NSW...1891-1900'

'Tighes Hill housing estate Aug 1902'

'Coal loading in Newcastle Early Days'

'Coop Store about 1914'

'New ambulances on display at Hamilton ambulance station, Newcastle, NSW, September 24, 1936'

'Aerial Over Fort Scratchley'

'Newcastle Beach with old Newcastle Hospital'

'Holden 48-215 '

'Looking at Horse Shoe Wharf and Tall Ships in Newcastle NSW in 1893.'

'The Hunter Theatre, The Junction, Newcastle, Australia'

'Newcastle Beach, Newcastle, NSW, [8 January 1910]'

'Royal Newcastle Hospital, photographed in 2005 a couple of years before it was demolished.'

'Pacific Park bus stop 1972'

'Hunter Street traffic in the 1930s'

'A man delivering ice in the old days when there were no refrigerators, 1930s'

'Zaara Street Power Station and railway yards, Newcastle, NSW'

'Palais Markets around 1891 with the Cottage Creek Cemetery on the left'

'Newcastle Harbour from Fort Scratchley Nov 1890'

'Beaumont Street Hamilton April 1906'

'Nelson Street level railway crossing Wallsend April 1906'

'he tug Champion at a regatta at Newcastle 2 January 1902'

'Ships at Carrington 19 July 1900'

'Sailing Ships Newcastle Harbour June 1900'

'Housing SubDivisions'

'Hexham Punt 1930'

'Punt to Stockton'

'Honeysuckle Station'

'Mayfield Theatre'

'When the Mall was a popular and busy spot (1980`s)'

'Stockton Bridge'

'Hamilton Railway Station, Hamilton, NSW, 12 April 1906'

'Cowper st bridge Carrington 1960s'

'Dairy Farmers Corner, 1960s'

'Looking west down Hunter Street, Newcastle, near Bank Corner in 1885'

'Newcastle Harbour, NSW, 31 December 1966'

'Waratah & Mayfield fire Station. Newcastle. 1911.N.s.w'

'Nelson St Wallsend NSW, 1960s.'

'Swansea Bridge'

'Fishing at the wharf'

'Tram and Double Decker Bus'

'`Gittins and Eastham Store, Broadmeadow, September 1897. Photo by Ralph Snowball, Living Histories '

'MEREWETHER, 6 JANUARY 1947 Photograph; courtesy - John Tipper'

'`Centennial Hotel, Scott St, Newcastle, NSW, [1910]`. Photo credit: Ralph Snowball'

'Sketch of Early Nobbys'

'Bar Beach 60s'

'A view of the Goods Yards, Nobbys and the Zaara Street Power station 1930s'

'Northumberland Permanent Building and Investment Land and Loan Society Building'

'Broadmeadow Station, 10 June 1950 '

'PACIFIC HIGHWAY BELMONT - 1934 Photograph; NSW State Archives'

'LOADING WOOL NO1 LEE WHARF 9/11/65 Newcastle Harbour Photograph ; Archival Revival - Newcastle Hera'

'Looking UPtown along Hunter Street from Newcomen Street in 1921'

'NEWCASTLE POST OFFICE, 1934 Photograph; taken from a glass plate negative- NSW State Archives'

'Merewhether Bearch around 1900'

'Civic park fountain 1986'

'Romper Room on NBN TV'

'Waiting to get on the punt'

'Newcastle railway station, NSW...1953 SLNSW'

'Bus Stop. Newcastle hospital, top of Hunter Strret'

'Memorial Drive Bar Beach'

'Newcastle Railway Station'

'Raymond Terrace punt with cattle on board'

'Tall Ships at Stockton'

'The Store Hunter Street West'

'Newcastle Hospital & Beach'

'Punt 31 Oct 1971'

'Adamstown Horse-Drawn Buses by Ralph Snowball'

'SABRES AT WILLIAMTOWN - 1956'

'Raymond Terrace Pool 1962'

'Broadmeadow Railway Station, August 1945'

'The photo illustrates the last Karuah River crossing of the punt on December 14, 1957, when the Kar'

'Steel Works Change of Shift'

'a beach pavilion on a cliff walk at Newcastle South Beach [1887]'

'Railway Yards, Newcastle Port, [1920]'

'Postcard - Newcastle Railway Station looking towards Customs House, c.1908'

'Railway Yards. Newcastle Port. 1920'

'Hunter Street 1959 Christmas Shopping'

'King Edward Park 1988 - old Bowling Club top left'

'Goninans 1991'

'Blast Furnace #4 in the 1990s'

'Newcastle Beach'

'Trams At Corner of Hunter Street and Bolton Street Newcastle'

'Driving over Stockton Bridge'

'Merewether Beach in late 1800s. Note underdeveloped state of Bar Beach'

'Newcastle Hospital at Newcastle Beach'

'Hexham Punt 21 June 1894'

'Hexham Punt 3rd June 1949'

'1960s house prices'

'Newcastle Harbour 1876'

'Opening of Newcastle Baths 25 Nov 1920'

'PACIFIC HIGHWAY BETWEEN SANDGATE AND HEXHAM, circa 1950'

'Cnr Hunter and Wolfe Sts 1960s'

'Newcastle Beach January 1910'

'Newcastle Beach'

'Newcastle Town Hall'

'NIGHT TIME CHRISTMAS WINDOW SHOPPING IN HUNTER STREET, DECEMBER 1938'

'Cowper St Maryville NSW, 1973'

'Stockton Bridge construction. Work commenced 1968 and the bridge was opened in 1971.'

'Looking down Watt St from Church St'

'TANK TRAPS ON STOCKTON BEACH'

'Newcastle Beach'

'No toilet block or kiosk, Lucerne for sale'

'Bar Beach Early Days'

'Beachgoers at Newcastle Beach in 1910'

'Newcastle Baths'

'Memorial Drive, Newcastle'

'Hunter Street, Newcastle in 1947 '

'Thomas Brothers Butcher Shop, 203 to 205 Hunter Street West, Newcastle, NSW, 9 November 1904'

'OAK BUTTER VAN, HUNTER VALLEY'

'Women walking along the tramline at Nobbys Breakwater, Newcastle, 1930s'

'HANDLING CRATES OF BUTTER AT DARK`S ICE WORKS, WHARF ROAD NEWCASTLE, March 13, 1936'

'Wreck of Susan Gilmour 1884'

'Winns Corner 1911'

'Double Decker Buses - Waltons'

'World Pool and Newcastle Baths'

'Beaumont St Hamilton 1959'

'Hunter River Meeting the Sea'

'Hunter Street c.1920'

'Graden City Kotara'

'n: Buses at the top of town'

'n: Pasha Bulker June 2007'

'n: Newcastle Waterfront 1989'

'n: Bar Beach Carpark 1950'

'n: Busy Hunter Street'

'n: The Store Bakery Carts'

'n: Royal Theatre Hunter Street'

'n: Horse Shoe Wharf 1893'

'n: Tram Tracks to Nobbys'

'n: Corner Brunker and Glebe Roads'

'Beaumont St Railway Gates 1940s'

'When Newcastle still had the Steelworks'

'Newcastle Hospital at Newcastle Beach'

'Beautiful Bar Beach'

'Newcastle Railway Yards'

'Elders St Lambton'

'Tram Bound for Waratah'

'Bullock Team in Hunter Street'

'Newcastle Signal Box 1970'

'Queen in Carrington 10 April 1970 - Bourke Street'

'Coal - Establishment of Newcastle'

'Hexham Bridge'

'Merewether Beach'

'Hunter Street'

'Wharf Road - still free parking!!'

'Old Toilet Block Hunter Street near David Jones'

'A Day Out at Newcastle Beach'

'Civic Station'

'Newcastle Flyer 1965'

'Nine Ways Broadmeadow 1953'

'Hanbury/Maitland Rd Corner in Mayfield 9 Sep 1950'

'Bank Corner Long ago'

'Mattara Civic Park 1970s'

'Old Harbour and Railway Yards'

'Steel Street Markets 06 Feb 1957'

'Mayfield with the Hoyts Picture show'

'Upper hunter Street before the Mall'

'Steel Works - Change of Shift'

'Royal Newcastle Hospital'

'Newcastle Airfield at Broadmeadow'

'Hunter Street Australia Day 1944'

'Opposite Civic Railway Station'

'Toule Street Bridge'

'THE Coop STORE'

'NBN Television'

'Newcastle Baths'

'Bar Beach 1971'

'The Royal in Hunter Street West'

'Hunter Street'

'Lunch at COLES'

'the OAK at Hexham'

'Broadmeadow Raliway Station'

'Punt and Ice Works'

'Fishing at the Wharf'

'Top of Town Long Ago'

'View to Nobbys'

'Newcastle Railyards 1986'

'Mattara Hillclimb'

'Hunter Street'

'Floating Dock'

'Beaumont Street Hamilton- Earthquake'

'Kings Wharf Newcastle 1906'

'Pasha Bulker Nobbys Newcastle'

'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis featuring Maynard G Krebs'

'Lost in Space'

'The Adventures of Robin Hood'

'My Three Sons'

'Welcome Back Kotter'

'The Adventures of Superman'

'Mickey Mouse Club'

'Petticoat Junction'

'Giligans Island'

'Who`s the Boss'

'The Honeymooners'

'The Real McCoys'

'Leaver It To Beaver'

'Hopalong Cassidy'

'The Lone Ranger'

'The Six Million Dollar Man'

'Adventure Island'

'Mr Squiggle and Miss Pat'

'Beverley Hillbillies'

'The Cisco Kid with his sidekick Pancho'

'Humphrey B Bear'

'Bring ya money with ya ,was Joe Sandows catch cry. AKA Joe the gadget man'

'BP Pick a Box'

'Coronation Street'

'Lassie and Rin Tin Tin'

'Superman and Lois'

'Bill and Ben Flowerpot Men. Weed. Weed.'

'Andy Pandy, Teddy and Looby Loo.'

'Why Is It So?'

'Disney Sunday Night'

'Concrete Laundry Tubs'

'Old toilet cistern'

'Old coins before 14 Feb 1966'

'What time is it?'

'One and two cent coins'

'Postage Stamp Duspenser'

'Sound Systems'

'Early Reader 1950s'

'Wooden Vaulting Horse'

'Vigaro - Was played mainly by girls as an alternative to Cricket'

'Remember the bank books'

'Coca Cola Yoyo'

'Cuisenaire Rods'

'1954 FJ Holden'

'Arnotts Family Assorted'

'Slide Rule - before calculators'

'Old money before dollars'

'No Aircon but Wing Windows'

'Broomstick Horsey'

'Join the Dots'

'Transistor Radio'

'Leather Punch'

'Dial on old telephones'

'Bill and Ben Flowerpot Men'

'Railway Station Timetable'

'Fossicking at the local dump'

'Why did we do this?'

'Sream Rollers'

'Yesterdays Classroms'

'Bus Exit Cords'

'Old time cinema'

'Big Slippery Dips'

'Kids Playing Cowboys and Indians'

'Fire Crackers'

'Green Grocer to your Front Door'

'Sling Shot /Shanghai'

'Common Kookaburra gas stove'

'Globite, the school bag of the 1950s'

'Twin Tub Washing Machine'

'Arithmetric Tables on the back of Exercise Books'

'Old Light Switch - Pull Hanging Cord'

'Old Light Switch'

'Phantom Comics - The Ghost who Walks'

'Cap Gun - Playing Cowboys and Indians'

'Coins in homemade Christmas Pudding'

'Golden Syrup in a can'

'Classic Concrete sinks that were located in the laundry.'

'When a milkshake came in a metal container, filled to the brim, with loads of ice cream'

'Mums Favourite Sayings'

'Do you remember?'

'Oranges and Lemons..'

'Pump fly sprayer'

'Common piece of playground equipment'

'Fish and Chips on a Friday night.'

'Toffee Apples'

'Typical Laminated Kitchen table'

'Bob a job week'

'How iceman carried ice'

'Hair clippers'

'Typewriter ribbon'

'Post Office Letter Box'

'Disposable Camera flash'

'Lolly cigarettes'

'Cloth Nappies'

'Toaster and jug 1960s'

'Milk in glass bottles delivered to our door step'

'How we saved our contacts back then.'

'TV Test Pattern from about 10pm on.'

'Sunlight Soap'

'Cleaning sandshoes'

'Globite school bag'

'Paid with Cash'

'Kodak Box Brownie'

'Weighing Scales'

'Coles Funny Picture Book'

'A Penny. 240 of these equivalent to One Pound.'

'Old Refridgerators'

'Home cooked Christmas Pudding'

'Inside a public phone box'

'Kookaburra Wooden Stove'

'Before blinkers'

'Electric Frypan'

'Knitting Craze among schoolkids'

'Commonwealth Bank Money Box'

'Junket Oldtime popular desert'

'Dripping - most things were cooked in this.'

'Dripping - most things were cooked in this.'

'Knuckle Bones'

'Remember stepping on these nasty things.'

'Singer Peddle Sewing Machine'

'An Australian classic - Outdoor Dunny'

'Outside Dunny'

'Drying hair at home'

'Typical kitchen table and chairs of the 1940s and 50s'

'A Typical Old Railway Carriage'

'Hot Water Bottle'

'Old lawnmower'

'Wooden Pencil case'

'Good old Kero heater'

'Washing day looked so hard'

'Free school milk'

'A young woman with a sewing machine, 1925.'

'Doctors house calls'

'Washing machine with wringer on top'

'School pencil sharpener'

'Toy Tank - shoots matches - Common toy for young kids'

'Wooden Escalator'

'kerosene heater'

'Gladstone bag'

'Before the hills hoist.'

'Life As It Was'

'The popular Bushells Lan-Choo leaf tea'

'Common Old Time Jug'

'Crystal Soft drinks'

'Y.Y. soft drinks'

'Coutts Family'

Residences

'Tighes Hill Public School in 1922'

"Tighes Hill Public School in 1922"

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Notes

the Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Grandson of the legendary Topcat who was sent to Australia on the First Fleet for stealing a loaf of bread,a bottle of milk and a tin of Whiskers.

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