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Morisset: Map of the town of Morisset and Adjoining Lands. Parish of Morisset, County of Northumberland, Shire of Lake Macquarie, Parish map.[Morisset]
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…awaba … boundaries … bridge street … districts … dora street … housing … kilaben street … lake macquarie … main street … mandalong street … morisset … morisset … northumberland … park street … patonga … properties … public school … pulbah street … recreation … rubbish depot … scarborough street … station … station street……stations…
Thompson Noble: Pulbah Island's poet
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…By 1932 Thompson - or Tommy as he was known to the family - held the position of caretaker on Pulbah Island. To a nature lover like Noble, this was an idylic experience and he thrived in the relative isolation of the bushland on Pulbah and the companionship of the native animals of the island.……On the…
Early Belmont
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…Pulbah Island … Pulbah Island was decided on for the site of an unusual business venture. In 1920, two men decided it was an ideal spot for a rabbit farm - it failed. … Collieries … Belmont Colliery began as Belmont No 1 Colliery before the turn of century.……In 1964 came the Beltop mine end of Hill Street.…
Captain Ernest Snowden Deed
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…Mapping the Lake … In 1902 Captain Deed, then living in Newcastle, purchased a large waterfront allotment at Carey Bay, backing onto Excelsior Street. He built a large boatshed on the waterfront as a weekender. This became known as 'The Camp, where Deed kept an ex-naval cutter from HMS Powerful.……The…
Follow the Plaques 1988 bicentennial plaques
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…Before this it was part of the territory of the Awabakal Aborigines who used it as a base for hunting, fishing and gathering as well as for travelling to their sacred site, Pulbah Island.……Plaque 11 IMAGE … West Wallsend - Park in Main Street … A Colliery township founded by the West Wallsend Coal Company…

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