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Ken & Audrey Owens Walkway, Redhead

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…Ken & Audrey Owens Walkway, Redhead … Named in 2002 in recognition of the work done by Ken and Audrey Owens over many years for Redhead and the local environment. Ken was the author of the publication ‘Redhead Bicentennial Park’ in 1988.……This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative…

How we grew - the 19th Century

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…The often fleeting nature of employment and length of time it took for reliable road transport to be established around the lake, has meant that Lake Macquarie did not develop the historic built environment of many other early cities.……The often fleeting nature of employment and length of time it took…

History of Belmont Lagoon - Bibliography

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…Zaitlin (1992) Classification of clastic coastal depositional environments. Sedimentary Geology, 80, 139-150. … City of Lake Macquarie, 2011, Belmont Lagoon Reserve Plan of Management.……Zaitlin (1992) Classification of clastic coastal depositional environments. Sedimentary Geology, 80, 139-150. … City…

Dora Creek in the 1930s: Place Imagery and Identity in Childhood

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…Given the exceptional qualities of Dora Creek as a nurturing and stimulating childhood environment, it is unsurprising that I fondly reminisce about ‘The Creek” as it was in the nineteen-thirties, also pondering the ways by which this ‘homeland’ may have influenced life directions. … Dora Creek in…

School resources

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…School resources … The Lake Macquarie History Online website is a great resource in support of the current K-6 Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE) syllabus as well as the new NSW K-10 History Syllabus, especially where local content is required … Some of the resources are listed below … Digitised…

Light on Morisset: Is this a nice place?

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…The hospital is set in a beautiful natural environment. Patients had access to a broad range of recreational opportunities. Walking, fishing, swimming, gardening, bowling, tennis, football and cricket, as well as regular dances and movie nights held in the Recreation Hall.……The hospital is set in a…

Wangi Wangi and it's People: a local history

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…This important work was written as a portrait of a small town and it's people, and of the environment and events which have created for it's residents a special place. Thus it can be a celebration for the future and a commemoration of the past.……This important work was written as a portrait of a small…

Olga Healey

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…Later activities facilitated a broadening of Olga’s social circle, and coupled with a burgeoning appreciation of her readily accessible outdoors environment, she fondly contemplates the new recreational pursuits seemingly available to her including hiking.……Later activities facilitated a broadening…

Dobell House

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…Dobell House is heritage listed on the Local Environment Plan of the Lake Macquarie Council and has been on the Register of National Estate since 1999.……Dobell House is heritage listed on the Local Environment Plan of the Lake Macquarie Council and has been on the Register of National Estate since …

The zoos of Lake Macquarie

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…It was to be a natural zoo, with no enclosures allowing the birds and animals to live in their native environment. Animals and birds were transported to the site, including emus, kangaroos, koalas, wallabies and wombats.……It was to be a natural zoo, with no enclosures allowing the birds and animals…