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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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…yambo street, skye street … 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…
Boolaroo - Teralba District Ambulance
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…Frith was handed the gold key to open the newly built Boolaroo and Teralba District Ambulance Transport Station, the first station north of the Sydney Metropolitan area.……The service was to be offered free of charge and convey patients from the district to Wallsend or Newcastle Hospitals. … The station,…
Williams Miner Reserve, Cardiff
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…For many years he was in charge of Cardiff Railway Station and later Cockle Creek Station. John Stewart Miner retired in 1963 after 47 years in the workforce, for most of his working life he was a resident of Cardiff.……Miner worked for the St Vincent de Paul Society supporting the needy and visited…
2013/2014 Exhibitions
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…2013/2014 Exhibitions … 2015 Exhibitions … 2016 Exhibitions … 2017 Exhibitions … Snow on Mount Sugarloaf … Eraring Power Station … Sharks in Lake Macquarie … Olympic Torch Relay … James Thomas Morisset … Arsenic plant at Blackalls Park … Germania Club … Mining Museum and music shell at Freemans Waterhole … Colonel……Highfields … Gateshead…
Cary Street
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…Hewson's and Horn's dairy farm was where the police station is now. A park on Cary Street was called Toronto Square; the ice works building is still here.……The Court House was built in 2000, the Motor Registry in 1978 and the Toronto Private Hospital in 1988, (on the former site of the St Josephs Convent…
Eraring
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…In 1981 the station was sold to a consortium of 13 companies operating as Eraring Power Company for 1653 million dollars.……The building of the power station brought an influx of workers but few settled in Eraring as the State Electricity Commission bought much of the area for the station and its buffer…
Main Road
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…The Alistair Private Maternity Hospital was also situated on Main Road. H. Millington's Cycle shop traded through the 30's and 40's. The Post Office opened in 1916 by Henry Oughton in a two storey shop and dwelling on the corner of Main Road and The Esplanade. It was owned later by Joseph Reynolds.……H…
Booragul
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…It was resumed for a proposed hospital on Mr. Braye's death in 1950. The hospital was never built and in November 1995 the house was acquired by Lake Macquarie City Council as a temporary home for the city's art gallery.……The Booragul Loop was constructed later to lessen the gradient and Booragul Station…
Mining Deaths
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…One of the injured died a few days later in hospital. A verdict of negligence was reached at the inquest and Samuel Selby, examining deputy was arrested. January 1926 saw eleven men killed at the Redhead Colliery.……Rescue stations appeared in England around 1903, with the first one in Australia being…
Mining museum and music shell at Freemans Waterhole
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…It was a time when the hewers of coal carried their product in baskets on their backs, watched by red-coated soldiers stationed at Newcastle. … The second showed the 1817 shaft of the mine located in the grounds of Watt St Mental Hospital.……The poppet head was saved from the site, and reassembled at…

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