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- Postcard depicting relatives waiting for news after the disaster at Dudley Coal Mine, Lake Macquarie NSW, March 1898.
- https://history.lakemac.com.au/page-local-history.aspx?pid=1085&vid=20&tmpt=showmedia&objid=4290
- …Media … Postcard depicting relatives waiting for news after the disaster at Dudley Coal Mine, Lake Macquarie NSW, March 1898. … Photo Ref: 4290 … Creators:… Laycock, Mr Ken … Laycock, Mrs Freda … Original caption: Dudley Coal Mine.……This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons…
- June 2007 storm photos
- https://history.lakemac.com.au/page-local-history.aspx?pid=1085&vid=20&tmpt=narrative&narid=4727
- …Over the next 36 hours Lake Macquarie was battered by the system's strong winds and torrential rain, causing extensive flooding, damage, and the grounding of MV Pasha Bulker off Nobby's Beach … The New South Wales Premier, Morris Iemma, declared a natural disaster for the affected areas.……Over the next…
- Follow the Plaques 1988 bicentennial plaques
- https://history.lakemac.com.au/page-local-history.aspx?pid=1085&vid=20&tmpt=narrative&narid=4744
- …Plaque 15 IMAGE … Whitebridge Cemetery - Dudley Road … The graves of people fatally injured in the area's collieries are to be found here including most of the victims of the 1898 Dudley Colliery disaster. It also contains the graves of Anders de Flon, a coal mining pioneer of Catherine Hill Bay.……Plaque…
- Dudley Colliery Plaque
- https://history.lakemac.com.au/page-local-history.aspx?pid=1085&vid=20&tmpt=showmedia&objid=5348
- …Sadly no man survived, with the recovery of the bodies taking more than two weeks to complete.The official inquiries and inquests found there to be an accumulation of a huge volume of gas in the pit to be the major cause of the disaster.…