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On the other side of the trenches
On the other side of the trenches : The Ottoman Empire Display title poster If you are passing through the corridor adjacent to Cultural Collections in the Auchmuty Library over the next two or three...
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Coal, railways and mines : the railways and collieries of the Greta and South...
We are delighted to report that the second volume of Brian Robert Andrews‘ latest work is now available and a copy will be housed in Cultural Collections very soon. Mr Andrews and the Cultural...
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Lost Diggers of Weston – Update
Towns with Heart & The Coalfields Heritage Group present Alexander Galloway’s Lost Diggers of Weston A group of Australian soldiers outside a hotel, [Criterion Hotel-], [1914-1918]Lost to the world...
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Lost Diggers of Weston
On Friday 1 March 2019, two members of the Cultural Collections team attended a very interesting presentation on Alexander Galloway’s Lost Diggers of Weston at the Kurri Kurri Library. The...
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The Festive Season
In the spirit of the festive season, we have gathered together many of our Christmas and New Year cards and postcards from the Victorian, Edwardian and 1920s eras. They’re from the Moore, Dalton,...
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UON Memories
Memories… If you studied at the University of Newcastle (Australia), Newcastle Teachers’ College, or Newcastle CAE/HIHE, you may enjoy a trip down memory lane by browsing through some of the diverse...
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East Maitland Church register digitised
One of the most popular registers in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle’s Archives is the East Maitland baptisms (1829-1859), marriages (1828-1897) and burials (1829-1854) register which was recently...
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Tamworth 1989
Ken ParmenterPhoto by Percy Sternbeck We have just uploaded 108 photos taken during the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 1989 by Percy Sternbeck. They are from the Coalfields Heritage Group’s...
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Kurri Aluminium Smelter
Aerial view from the east immediately prior to commencement of construction of Hydro Kurri Kurri Ltd, 7 Dec 1977 Photos of Kurri Hydro The aluminium plant at Kurri Kurri, owned by Alcan, began...
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When was your subdivision sold?
Bingles Hill Estate, Tighes Hill We have just transferred the wonderful Northumberland and Permanent Building Investment Land and Loan Society collection of land subdivision plans from our Flickr site...
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Engaging with our community
Our local communities are very important to the Cultural Collections team. One recent example of help we have received from a member of the You know you’re from Maitland when… Facebook group is the...
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Trains!
Everyone who loves locos, wagons, and all things related to railways will be delighted to know that two large collections on our Living Histories site have grown. 90 class locomotives being unloaded...
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March Exhibitions at Watt Space
EXHIBITIONS 14 March – 1 April 2018 OPENING LAUNCH Thursday 15 MARCH from 6:30pm Gallery 1 – KATRINA HOLDEN – Conversations with the Land Conversations with the Land presents the artist’s snapshots...
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Seeing the Shadow
Peter Tilley, Seeing the Shadow II 2017, painted cast iron on polished stainless steel, 43 x 78 x 15 cm. Peter Tilley Seeing the Shadow 21 MARCH – 14 APRIL 2018 The elusive, insubstantial nature of...
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Watt Space Exhibitions
WATT SPACE GALLERY EXHIBITIONS 21 February – 11 March 2018 OPENING LAUNCH Thursday 22 FEB from 6:30pm LIBBY ECKERSLEY – Preparations and de-articulations has the artist working in the context of the...
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Re-stitching Culture
IMAGE: RE-STITCHING CULTURE DOLLS 2017 LEFT – RIGHT Aunty Audree Trindall, Audrey, Aunty Pearl Slater, Mum (Eileen), Arlettha, Johnny, Aunty Shirl Weatherall, My younger self (Shirley), Lyniece Keogh,...
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Information needed
This is a request for information from the many railway enthusiasts out there on the Net. This photo is from the Australian Railway Historical Society (NSW)’s collection and a couple of people have...
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Mystery to be solved
Here’s a mystery for our intrepid historian colleagues. We would like to know something about the soldier in this photo. Unfortunately, time and other hazards have obscured his face, but we are hoping...
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Mojgan Habibi : Behind the words
MOJGAN HABIBI BEHIND THE WORDS 31 January – 18 February 2018 Mojgan Habibi’s PhD research is concerned with the use of text by politically motivated Iranian visual artists. Hidden or secondary...
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BHP Memories
Final march out down David Baker Road, Night Mechanic’s Office in left Background & Machine Shop on right30th September 1999 There are now 265 historic photos from Bill Ruddick’s great collection...
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