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Salty Creek Speedway
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…Track conditions suiting midget cars were very different to those which suited bikes, and the motorcycle racing fraternity became increasingly frustrated with having to share the facility.……Track conditions suiting midget cars were very different to those which suited bikes, and the motorcycle racing…
Letter from Tom Fennell to his brother William, 4th February 1851
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…I wish my dear little Hity was with me, for with the property she has she could live as well off comfortably as ever she did at home, but the distance I feel [is] too great for us ever to get together again, it is a country that would not suit Amy at all.……I wish my dear little Hity was with me, for…
Letter from Richard Fennell to his sister-in-law Mary, 23rd November 1846
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…They are most excellent things and well suited, for our dirty location.……They are most excellent things and well suited, for our dirty location.…
Reverend Lancelot E Threlkeld, 1788-1859
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…'There is a thin strata of light sandy soil, tracts with sand and gravelly surface - on the margins of the lake and in the valleys occasional tracts of productive land - Not suited to agriculture or grazing large flocks or herds' but is well suited to retired naval, military or civil officers, or merchants……'There…
Letter from Richard Fennell to his brother William, 3rd September 1850
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…Some people about here make something by salting fish and as soon as I can earn enough to buy a boat I shall try it myself not being laborious work it will suit me well.……Some people about here make something by salting fish and as soon as I can earn enough to buy a boat I shall try it myself not being…
Behind the Charlestown Hotel, 1940
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Swansea Public School choir, 1942. Choir broadcast over radio station 2KO in 1942.
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Miners from the 'Gully Pit' (Waratah Mine), on a hillside, Ida Street, Charlestown Lake Macquarie NSW. c.1895
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…Stephen Barnes is fifth from the left of the men sitting (bearded - in front of the man in the light suit). Charlestown Hotel (at the top of Smith Street) and Post Office Hotel (in Ida Street) can be seen in background.…
People at Windale, Lake Macquarie, NSW c1950s
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James O'Donoghue standing on a jetty at Belmont, Lake Macquarie, NSW. Photographed by Joe O'Donoghue 1953
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