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Newcastle surveyor John McNaughton amid his vast store of work files and maps at his office. Picture: Mike Scanlon. Below: The NBN TV studios being built pre-1962 in Mosbri Crescent. It's now being demolished for a residential development. Picture: NBN TV archives


The story of land near today's Mosbri Crescent is part of modern Newcastle's growth

Taking a wander around the origins of Newcastle's 'Orrett's Paddock'

The rickety Coal Point jetty in front of Toronto's historic Ebenezer mine. Picture: Courtesy of UON Special Collections. 

So many memories of Lake Macquarie's history have been lost

Lisa Rockman

Andrew Dunne and Josh Nicholson at the Royal Oak in Tighes Hill. Picture by Marina Neil

Andrew Dunne didn't want the Royal Oak to be sold to developers.

Good vibes, food and tunes transform the Royal Oak at Tighes Hill

Senior Newcastle port chaplain Garry Dodd in the foyer of the 1940s Mission to Seafarers building in Wickham, and, at right, with the famous Sygna bell. Pictures by Mike Scanlon

Today's world at the Hannell Street mission is very different to the past.

Mission to Seafarers adapts to tide of change

NSWs tallest known tree, The Grandis, with a visitor dwarfed by the giant. Picture by Mike Scanlon


This mature eucalyptus grandis is a rare survivor of its size.

A trip to The Grandis: the tallest tree in NSW

The jagged rocks below Sugarloaf Point lighthouse show how dangerous the maritime route off Seal Rocks once was. Pictures: Mike Scanlon

The lighthouse's location was once all at sea.

Illuminating trek through the Seal Rocks light's past

Author Wayne Patfield inside Morpeth Museum with an impressive scale model of the pioneer paddle steamer Sophia Jane. Picture: Mike Scanlon


'It's hard to imagine ships that size ever berthed at Morpeth.'

Herodotus of the Hunter: historian explores Morpeth's steam ship past

Beresfield train station was wiped out in seconds.

ON THIS DAY: Remembering the Beresfield rail disaster

Howleys original Coffee Pot locomotive pauses on the coastal line between Glenrock Lagoon and Merewether. A slow, lingering death awaited her. Picture: UON Special Collections

All aboard for a trip back to The Junction's past.

Historic suburban secrets: going loco over Howley's Junction

ICONIC IMAGE: Darren Pateman's Walkley-award winning photograph of the cricket match that took place at Cessnock as the bushfire approached in October 2002.

Today marks the 21st anniversary of one of Cessnock's most devastating bushfires.

ON THIS DAY: Abernethy's moment from hell, remembering the 2002 bushfire

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