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Passing by the tree, the skin of memory

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Exhibition

NATHALIE HARTOG-GAUTIER

Passing by the tree, the skin of memory

Exhibition Dates: 24 June – 11 July 2015

The University Gallery

This body of work is about my aunt who suffers from Dementia. She remembers very little of the past and to visit her is like entering another world. I wanted to remember our time together. When I see her or think of her I attach images which, to use Proust’s expression, “will break the spell.”

My aunt doesn’t speak French anymore and from the new language she has created, I developed a set of poems based on our surrealistic conversation. They translate my emotion into written sounds and rhythms. The drawings of geometrical shapes are a representation of the space we live in but with
illusions and distortions translating the world my Aunt lives in. I also wanted to remember the everyday objects that were part of her life: rubbings on paper such as the armchair she used to sit on and other pieces of furniture; a tactile and intimate photography of her objects.

I constructed fragile paper vessels made from cotton fibers, it dries like the skin: it wrinkles and they carry balls of un-knitted wool, holding its own memory and the passing of time. They are remnants of a past life and the memories of things past. As Proust wrote, they become my trees, awaking, recollecting the account of our days together.

– Nathalie Hartog-Gautier

Please join the artist at the exhibition opening to be launched by Dr Rod Pattenden:
Saturday 27 JUNE from 2pm



Soundings

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Exhibition

LEZLIE TILLEY

Soundings

Exhibition Dates: 24 June – 11 July 2015

The University Gallery

Lezlie Tilley’s art practice is deeply entwined with poetry: poetry in its written literary form, as well as the kind of poetry found in abstract ideas or the expression of material structure.

Tilley’s works in this exhibition explore the possibilities created by taking a fundamental form or idea and extrapolating it infinitely, reducing it to positive and negative shapes, or employing repetition with small and intricate variations in colour, size, and stroke. Tilley searches for the essence of form, revealing the simple and inherent beauty in the minutiae of lines, patterns, and the seemingly random arrangement of individual marks on a surface.

This exploration of possibilities also includes Tilley’s response to the 28-stanza poem, Halloween, by Scottish poet and lyricist Robert (Robbie) Burns in 1785. Taken from a loved and tattered book of poetry given to her by her grandmother, Tilley investigates each canto over six panels – stretching and separating the poem into its various constituent parts, illuminating its intrinsic literary geometries while preserving its connection to the whole.

Lezlie Tilley is represented by Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

Please join the artist at the exhibition opening to be launched by Dr Rod Pattenden:
Saturday 27 JUNE from 2pm


Free Oral History Workshop at Cessnock Library

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A few members of our Cultural Collections team will be conducting an Oral History Workshop at Cessnock Library on the 22nd July 2015 between 9am and 1pm.

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This workshop is the first of three and is part of a project called Voices of the Hunter which is managed by the University of Newcastle, with support from the Coalfields Heritage Group and Coal & Allied. This project follows in the footsteps of Oral History Collector, Jack Delaney, who produced a large number of recordings on cassette over a period of 20 years. This collection is held by the Coalfields Heritage Group, who loaned it to the University for digitisation. The collection is now being made freely available online.

The aim of the workshops is to reach out to anyone in the Coalfields community who would like to learn how to plan, organize and collect their own history whether it is family or community history. The presenters will give participants the confidence to assemble and preserve their collected stories. It is an opportunity to see the world through the eyes of others and appreciate how things came to be.

If you would like to participate in the workshop please make a booking at Cessnock Library or phone (02) 4993 4399.


Mysterious initials

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O.P.S. & D.S.

These initials appear on a silver snuff box presented to “Bro A. Breckles by members of the above as a token of esteem on his leaving for Canada April 1903″

We have been researching the initials but have not been able to come up with the words. We’ve tried Order and Oddfellows for the O, nothing at all seems to work for the P, and Society for the S. We think that D.S. may mean Druid Society, but, of course, it could have many meanings.

If you know for what those letters stand, please contact us – archives@newcastle.edu.au, phone: 02 4921 5354.

 


Trains!

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Locomotive No. 108 [n.d.]

Locomotive No. 108 [n.d.]

Trains, tracks and stations

More photos from the remarkable collection of the Australian Railway Historical Society (NSW Division) are being uploaded to our Flickr site. We don’t have specialist knowledge of these wonderful locos, stations and tracks, so we would very much appreciate it if the experts and enthusiasts in the community could have a look at the Flickr album and share their knowledge with us either by leaving a comment or emailing us.


Mysterious initials – more information

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More information on the Mysterious Initials

Thank you to those intrepid researchers who have been searching for information about the mysterious initials on the snuff box to which we referred earlier. Since we put the RFI up, we have received some more details about the origins of the snuff box and a picture of the inscription.

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Inscription on snuff box

 

  • The inscription reads
    O.P.S. & .D.S. / Presented to / Bro. A. Breckles / by members of the above as a token of esteem / on his leaving for Canada / April 1903
  • The snuff box is British and is made of sterling silver.
  • It was presented to Anthony Breckles Jr.
  • Anthony Breckles Jr was an iron moulder in the UK who emigrated to Canada.
  • Anthony Breckles Jr died in Toronto, Canada in 1917.

If you can help identify the organisation to which Bro. Breckles belonged, please contact us either by a comment or email to archives@newcastle.edu.au

 


We Live In This Valley (1962)

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We Live in the Valley (1962) (52 mins) is a documentary film on the Hunter Valley by film maker Douglass Baglin commissioned for the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company Limited (a.k.a. “The Oak”).

Title: WE LIVE IN THIS VALLEY
Release Date: 1962
Produced as: Documentary
Media: Film

Summary:  Traces the Hunter River from its genesis high in the Barrington Tops through the Hunter Valley till it empties into the sea at Newcastle.

Subjects:

Barrington Tops; Water Sking on Glenbawn Dam including Fishing, Birdlife, and Oak Milk Bar; Scone;  Murrurundi; Burning Mountain at Wingen; Horse Studs; Agricultural Scientific Work; Aberdeen; Beltrees Homestead; Beef Cattle; Sheep and Wool; Merino Sheep in Merriwa Cassilis; Aerial Agriculture Fertilising; Muswellbrook; Lucerne; Oak Tankers; Dairy Production; Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company’s Branxton factory; Power Generation; Denman, Widden Valley, Baramul Stud; Wheat in the Goulburn Valley; Singleton, Baroona Homestead; Aerial view of Paterson River; Maitland; Lucerne on Bolwarra Flats; Agricultural Shows; Polo; Rodeos; Cessnock and Coalfields; Vineyards and Wine; Snow and Ski-ing; Timber Getters; Paterson River and Willows; Dairying on the Paterson Gresford District; Dungog on Williams River; Chichester Dam; Poultry Farms; Raymond Terrace, Baths, Courtaulds Factory, Masonite factory, orchards; Prawners; Sixty Milers; Hexham; Main factory of Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company; Milk Production; Butter; Big game fishing, Bob Dyer at Port Stephens; Oyster Beds; Broken Hill Proprietary Company Steelworks, the ‘BHP'; Wangi Power Station; Sulphide Corporation Plant; ELMA, Nobbys Signal Station; Newcastle City; Mattara Festival; Newcastle Town Hall; War Memorial Cultural Centre; William Dobell at work; King Edward Park; Transport Systems, TV and Radio; Newcastle Beach, Surf Carnivals; Lake Macquarie; Yachting; Horse Racing; Sporting; “Protect the Soil, Conserve the Water”; Children future inheritors.

Country of Origin: Australia
Production company: Douglass Baglin Photography
Commentary: James Dibble
Sound: “KINELAB”
Sponsor: Hunter Valley Co-Op Dairy Co. Ltd

Thanks to Yvonne Austin, niece of the late Douglass Baglin for granting permission on behalf of the family for this film to be made available to the wider global community.

Thanks also to Mr Peter Smith and Greg & Sylvia Ray who located and transferred the original 16mm film reels to the University of Newcastle’s Cultural Collections Archives for perpetual custody.

For further background see:

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1742806/hunter-valley-1960s-documentary-star-video/

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/921986/gallery-hunter-history-unearthed/

http://www.nbnnews.com.au/index.php/2012/11/15/50-years-of-nbn-old-film-shines-light-on-hunter-valley/

Gionni Di Gravio
University Archivist


We Live In This Valley (1962) – Offcuts Reel 3

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Title: WE LIVE IN THIS VALLEY

Release Date: 1962

Produced as: Documentary

Media: Film

Summary:  Traces the Hunter River from its genesis high in the Barrington Tops through the Hunter Valley till it empties into the sea at Newcastle.

Country of Origin: Australia

Production company:Douglass Baglin Photography

Sponsor: Hunter Valley Co-Op Dairy Co.

Holdings: 8 Reels We Live In This Valley, Offcuts and Projections Prints

Reel 3. We Live In This Valley. Offcuts. H.V.D. “Kinelab 28th Jan 64″ in pencil. Colour. Silent.

Subjects: actual on film.
00:00 – 00:51 View of Newcastle City from Harbour;
00:52 – 00:54 Loading Coal onto Ship
00:55 – 01:03 Locomotive backing up, sand in foreground
01:05 – 01:27 Two men walking past large unidentified plant
01:28 – 01:42 Kids playing
01:43 – 01:45 Blank
01:46 – 02:26 Inside of butter manufacturing and packing plant.
02:27 – 05:56 Loading Coal onto Ship, view of coal operations vessels in port of Newcastle
05:57 – 07:50 Various shots of sun’s rays through clouds over rural landscape
07:51 – 07:53 Blank
07:54 – 09:38 Cows
09:39 – 10:00 Distant car on Kayuga Bridge Muswellbrook rural landscape
10:01 – 10:12 Black
10:13 – 10:28 Resume Kayuga Bridge Muswellbrook rural landscape
10:29 – 12:33 Yacht and boats moored on lake? Ship’s rudder, various scenes
12:34 – 14:13 We Live In Thus Valley Titles
14:14 – 14:56 Road to Oak factory, Muswellbrook?
14:57 – 15:59 Dairy cows herds and milking
16:00 – 17:32 Interior of Factory (Courtaulds? Tomago Plant)
17:33 – 18:01 Paterson River?

One foolscap page included with the original reel listed the following: “Courtaulds Interiors; Paterson River;Darcy ? Dairy; Bulk Delivery; Bulk Muswellbrook Factory; We Live In This Valley Titles; Toronto; M’Brook Bridge; Ships Rudder ?; Fresian Herd; Weidners Jerseys?; Sunset; Mechanical Coal Loading; Sulphide; Newcastle; John Scarrs; Butter Room; BHP Loading; May derr swimming?; Titles; Ray[mond] Terrace Streets; Diving; Singleton Park; Dungog Houses; Dungog Sign Post; Burning Mountain; Maitland Bridge; Singleton baths?; Singleton Park.”

This reel was donated to the Cultural Collections (Archives), Auchmuty Library,  University of Newcastle (Australia) in November 2013 by The Morpeth Museum.

Thanks to Yvonne Austin, niece of the late Douglass Baglin for granting permission on behalf of the family for this film to be made available to the wider global community.

Gionni Di Gravio
University Archivist



We Live In This Valley (1962) – Offcuts Reel 5

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Title: WE LIVE IN THIS VALLEY

Release Date: 1962

Produced as: Documentary

Media: Film

Summary:  Traces the Hunter River from its genesis high in the Barrington Tops through the Hunter Valley till it empties into the sea at Newcastle.
Country of Origin: Australia

Production company: Douglass Baglin Photography

Sponsor: Hunter Valley Co-Op Dairy Co.

Holdings: 8 Reels We Live In This Valley, Offcuts and Projections Prints

Reel 5. We Live In This Valley. Offcuts. H.V.D.

Subjects:
00:00-02:56 Titles (in blue)
02:57-04:02 Black
04:03-04:59 Lobsters, Prawns, Oysters
05:00-05:58 Oak Neon Lighting
05:59-06:45 Two women holding folders walking along outdoor office walkway adjacent to flowerbeds (John Scarrs?)
06:46-07:10 Hexham factory Oak trucks driving down street
07:11-09:10 Australia map graphics
09:11-09:37 Blue Text titles
09:38-09:41 Stairway to Baroona homestead, Singleton
09:42- 09:49 Two women in white walking along pathway adjacent to purple flowers (John Scarrs?)
09:50-09:58 Four propellor Ansett ANA plane on tarmac
09:59-10:02 Kangaroos
10:03-10:04 Fishing
10:04-10:05 Baroona homestead, Singleton
10:05-10:30 Running Water over rocks
10:31-10:32 Black and white Australia outline with graphics
10:33-10:40 Windmill with sunlight
10:40-10:48 People in snow ski-ing
10:49-11:04 N.S.W. Milk Board Artificial Stock Breeding Centre New England Highway Aberdeen. (John Scarrs?)
11:05-11:12 Spinning Globe of world spinning in front of red curtain
11:13-11:24 Baron Homestead Singleton
11:25-11:32 Black and white Australia outline with graphics
11:33-11:36 Prawns
11:37-11:40 Windmill in sunlight
11:41-11:49 Hereford cattle drinking
11:50-11:54 Poppet head
11:55-11:57 People in Newcastle Crowds
11:58-12:05 Angus Cattle
12:06-12:11 Polo
12:12-12:21 Horses and foals
12:22-12:32 Trout fishing
12:33-12:43 “Conservation”, rural landscape.
12:44-12:47 Map of Australia graphics
12:48-13:09 Goat, chickens, trout fishing
13:10-13:17 Newstan Colliery?
13:18-13:21 Mattara Procession
13:22-13:37 Horse stud
13:38-13:41 Prawning,
13:42-13:48 Rural vista
13:49-13:52 Aerial of Hexham Oak Factory
13:53-13:59 Milk Bottling Plant
14:00-14:14 Rain
14:15-14:18 Widden Valley
14:19-14:22 Wildlife
14:23-14:33 Drover on horse
14:34-14:44 Plane in ascent
14:45-14:50 Milking Cows
14:51-14:58 Horse Stud
14:59-15:18 Oak Milk Truck
15:19-15:41 Lake? or Bay?
15:42-15:50 Black swans
15:51-16:00 Chickens
16:00-18:05 Rugby League Game
18:06-20:32 Lawn Bowls at National Park Bowling Club Newcastle
20:33-20:40 Water Droplet in Slow Motion
20:40-21:05 Marie Meehan(?) with babbling brook at Barrington Tops
21:06-21:35 Red on black titles “Water and Wealth” “An H.V.D. Production” “Photography by Douglass Baglin”
21:36-21:48 Trout Fishing
21:49-22:30 Forage harvester
22:30-22:48 Widden Valley Horses
22:49-22:58 Women examining fabrics at Bradford Cotton Mills
22:59-23:04 Onions
23:05-23:13 Woodchopping
23:14-23:27 Harness racing (trotting)
23:28-23:32 Sir Robert Menzies delivering a speech
23:33-23:37 Aerial of Cessnock Coal Mine
23:38-24:02 Wine tasting
24:03-24:13 Fern Trees
24:13-24:19 Oak Trucks
24:20-24:22 Pumpkins
24:23-24:33 Aerial of Muswellbrook Factory
24:34-24:39 Turkeys
24:40-24:44 Water sprays
24:45-24:52 Fingerlings
24:53-24:57 Hereford Cattle
24:58-25:15 Horse Stud
25:16-25:24 Running Water
25:25-25:34 Horse trials
25:35-25:51 Couple arriving home after fishing
25:52-25:57 Hereford at Muswellbrook Show
25:58-26:05 Running Stream
26:06-26:14 Aerial of Muswellbrook
26:15-26:24 Hotel Hunters
26:25-26:27 Trout Fishers
26:28-26:35 Prawning
26:36-26:43 Oak Trucks in Mattara Festival Newcastle
26:44-26:51 View from Commander Frank Gardner ANZAC statue at Newcastle Post Office
26:52-27:01 Oak Cheese Room
27:02-27:05 Aerial of Muswellbrook
27:06-27:11 B.H.P. Newcastle pouring off slag
27:12-27:20 Newcastle crowds
27:21-27:32 Delivery of Oak Products to home
27:33-27:40 Aerial of Grahamstown Dam
27:41-27:43 Open Cut Mine
27:44-27:47 Aerial of Shoal Bay
27:48-27:59 Rugby League Match
28:00-28:03 Big Game Fishing
28:04-28:13 Four ladies enjoying tea at the Hexham Milk Bar with an Oak truck passing by
28:14-28:18 Corn
28:19-28:27 Surf Trials
28:28-28:41 Pig and geese
28:42-28:48 Bee Keeping
28:49-28:52 People in Sporting Stand
28:53-28:57 Scene of river and mountains in background
28:58-29:02 Horse stud
29:03-29:05 TAA Plane on runway
29:05-29:10 Flowers in King Edward Park
29:11-29:56 Vessel William Holyman in dock
29:57-30:13 Trout fishing
30:14-30:24 Mattara Parade
30:25-30:31 Rural scene overlooking river
30:31-31:07 Locomotive backing up at Colliery?
31:08-31:54 Sheep
31:55-31:59 Stockman
32:00-31:04 Big Game Fishing (Port Stephens)
32:05-32:16 Loading bales of wool on ship at port (Newcastle)
32:17-32:21 Snow on Barrington Tops
32:22-32:32 Pond Wetlands
32:33-34:47 Waves on Nobbys Beach Newcastle
34:48-34:53 Upper Hunter Hereford at Muswellbrook Show
34:54-35:00 Oak Brand Boxes on truck
35:01-35:16  Aerial of [Raymond Terrace]?
35:17-35:22 Oak Flag
35:23-35:39 Unidentified streetscape in Hunter Town
35:40-35:47 Wetlands and Wildlife
35:48-36:01 Dam (Grahamstown?)
36:02-36:07 Unidentified streetscape in Hunter Town
36:08-36:09 Water drop?
36:10-36:14 Ducks
36:15-36:17 Widden Valley Horses
36:18-36:28 Harvester
36:29-36:38 Pouring steel/hot metal? and slag at BHP Steelworks
36:39-39:19 Spinning Earth Globe to stop on Australia (various takes)
39:20-39:23 Black
39:24-41:40 Oak Truck delivery of Oak Products by Milkman (various takes)
41:41-41:54 “Knockoff” End of shift at B.H.P. Steelworks Newcastle
41:55-41:59 Oak Trucks Hexham
42:00-42:08 Wool Floor
42:09-42:27 View from Ferris Wheel
42:28-42:46 Aerial of Branxton, NSW
42:47-43:01 Wool Floor
43:02-43:11 Polo
43:12- 43:27 Woodchoppers
43:28-43:35 Wheat into hold
43:36-43:44 Milk rec vap?

This reel was donated to the Cultural Collections (Archives), Auchmuty Library,  University of Newcastle (Australia) in November 2013 by The Morpeth Museum.

Thanks to Yvonne Austin, niece of the late Douglass Baglin for granting permission on behalf of the family for this film to be made available to the wider global community.

Gionni Di Gravio
University Archivist


We Live In This Valley (1962) – Offcuts Reel 6

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Title: WE LIVE IN THIS VALLEY

Release Date: 1962

Produced as: Documentary

Media: Film

Summary:  Traces the Hunter River from its genesis high in the Barrington Tops through the Hunter Valley till it empties into the sea at Newcastle.

Country of Origin: Australia

Production company:Douglass Baglin Photography

Sponsor: Hunter Valley Co-Op Dairy Co.

Holdings: 8 Reels We Live In This Valley, Offcuts and Projections Prints

Reel 6: We Live In This Valley. Offcuts. H.V.D. Reel 22/5 [Can] 22/5.

Subjects:

00:00-01:46 Titles (Yellow)
01:47-02:09 Yachting
02:10-03:33 Water Ski-ing
03:34-03:48 Milk Processing
03:49-04:11 Wetlands Valley Vistas
04:12-04:32 Cannery and oak Powdered Milk Production Line
04:33-05:10 Milk Processing
05:11-05.29 Snow on Barrington Tops
05:30-05:44 Black
05:45-08:11 Flowing Water in stream to waterfall, opening gates on dam
08:12-08:35 Clouds in sky to Pipeline on land
08:36-08:46 Sheep at Show
08:47- 09:16 Surf Carnival at Newcastle Beach?
09:17-09:24 Checking red and yellow coloured globes
09:25-09:26 Checking weather gauge
09:27-09:31 Horses at Carnival
09:32-09:36 Blossoms
09:37-09:39 Wombat
09:40-09:44 Logging
09:45-09:48 Aerial of BHP Steelworks
09:49-09:56 Milk Bottling Plant (Morpeth)
09:57-10:01 Oak Flag
10:02-11:08 Checking Sheep’s Fleece and Sheep Show and Cattle Displays at Muswellbrook Show
11:09-11:10 Aerial of unidentified town
11:11-11:20 Water Droplet in Snow Motion
11:21-11:29 Woodchopping
11:30-11:39 Shearing sheep for wool
11:40-11:43 Wood felling
11:44-11:50 Cultivation
11:51- 11:55 Aerial of Coal Mine
11:56-12:02 Running stream
12:03-12:10 Crop spraying
12:11-12:17 Barley Field
12:18-12:23 Homestead
12:24-12:38 Muswellbrook street
12:39-12:44 Horse trials
12:45-12:58 Sheep by a River
12:59-13:05 Homestead
13:06-13:11 Aerial of Morpeth
13:12-13:15 Oak Flag
13:16-13:25 White flame? flowers
13:26-13:31 Singleton Street
13:32-13:44 Yellow Flowers “Collieopsis”
13:45-14:10 Beach girl competition
14:11- 14:12 Aerial of Paterson
14:13-14:22 Prawners
14:23-14:33 Surf Carnival Newcastle Beach?
14:34-14:49 Hay rake
14:50-14:55 Ingot of Steel at BHP Steelworks Newcastle
14:56-14:57 Tree felling
14:58-15:00 Kangaroo
15:01-15:23 Seagulls, Prawners, Vessel
15:24- 15:36 Oysters to Market on Melbourne Oyster Supply Ltd Salt Ash Truck
15:37-15:40 Cannery interior of Hexham Plant
15:41-15:47 Courtaulds, Tomago
15:48-15:51 Pouring ingot steel at BHP Steelworks Newcastle.
15:52-16:01 Aerial of Township of Paterson
16:02-16:05 Wombat
16:05-16:06 Sir Robert Menzies
16:07-16:17 Open Cut Coal Mine and Poppet Head
16:18-16:19 Sir Robert Menzies
16:19-16:22 Wheat
16:23- 16:42 Entrance into War Memorial Cultural Centre “Him and Her” Laman Street Newcastle
16:43-16:59 View of Newcastle from Shepherds Hill?
17:00-17:08 Girls at the Bogey Hole Newcastle
17:09-17:24 Harness racing “Trots”
17:25-17:26 Aerial of Muswellbrook NSW
17:27-17:43 Cloud formation
17:44-17:59 Aerial of unidentified Hunter Valley Town
18:00-18:25 Grape picking
18:26-18:39 Black
18:40-19:17 Muswellbrook Factory
19:18-20:33 View of Glenbawn Dam, Homesteads and Mountains
20:34-21:22 Horse riders at Show
21:23-21:35 Oak Flag and Milk Bar
21:36-21:49 Internal of Factory, Vats
21:50-21:57 Cows
21:58-22:13 Muswellbrook Factory
22:14-22:19 Cows
22:20-23:03 Glenbawn Dam
23:04-23:23 Open Cut Mining Operations
23:24-23:32 Milk processing
23:33-23:36 Courtaulds interiors
23:37-23:47 End of reel
23:48-24:16 The Tropical Heat Wave Show exhibits
24:17-24:54 Ferris Wheel
24:55-25:31 Deep Sea fishing
25:32-26:09 Produce at Maitland Show
26:10-26:11 Wine tasting
26:11-27:53 Bulls at Muswellbrook Show and view from Ferris Wheel
27:54-28:07 Windmill with sunlight
28:08-28:34 Rural scenes
28:35-29:04 Horse barrier trials
29:05-29:32 Harness racing (‘trots’)
29:33-30:40 Deep sea fishing and crowds at shore (Port Stephens?)
30:41-31:13 Oak Flag
31:14-31:34 Harness racing (‘trots’)
31:35-32:50 Horse barrier trials
32:51-35:38 Ferris Wheel and view of Oak Milk Bar and crowds at Show
35:39-36:04 Wine tasting
36:05-36:11 Deep sea fishing and crowds at shore (Port Stephens?)
36:12-36:18 Open cut coal mining
36:19-37:26 Rodeo events at Muswellbrook? Show
37:27-38:12 Judging Bulls at Muswellbrook Show
38:13-38:24 Pan of valley scenes
38:25-38:58 Bulls at Muswellbrook Show and side show exhibits
38:59-39:13 Oak Flag
39:14-40:29 Muswellbrook Show kids trains, crowds and side show exhibits and Oak Milk Bar
40:30-43:14 Milk processing plant
43:15-43:23 Herefords and Hay making
43:24-44:38 Open Cut Coal Mining
44:39-44:59 Milk processing plant

This reel was donated to the Cultural Collections (Archives), Auchmuty Library,  University of Newcastle (Australia) in November 2013 by The Morpeth Museum.

Thanks to Yvonne Austin, niece of the late Douglass Baglin for granting permission on behalf of the family for this film to be made available to the wider global community.

Gionni Di Gravio
University Archivist


We Live In This Valley (1962) Offcuts Reel 7

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Title: WE LIVE IN THIS VALLEY

Release Date: 1962

Produced as: Documentary

Media: Film

Summary:  Traces the Hunter River from its genesis high in the Barrington Tops through the Hunter Valley till it empties into the sea at Newcastle.

Country of Origin: Australia

Production company:Douglass Baglin Photography

Sponsor: Hunter Valley Co-Op Dairy Co.

Holdings: 8 Reels We Live In This Valley, Offcuts and Projections Prints

Reel 7. We Live In This Valley “Offcuts”

Subjects:
00:00-00:06 Polo
00:07-00:21 Aerial of Entrance Newcastle Harbour Nobbys
00:22-00:35 Closeup of man’s face
00:36-01:58 Loading wool bales on vessel
01:59-02:26 Cauliflowers
02:27-04:28 Town Hall Newcastle and NESCA Building
04:29-06:12 Aerials of Singleton,NSW
06:13-06:48 Sheep dog trials
06:49-07:23 launching The William Holyman
07:24-10:16 Crowds at the Newcastle Horse Races
10:17-10:32 Emu
10:33-11:06 Kangaroos
11:07-11:30 Rain at Charlestown, NSW
11:31-11:57 Crowds at the Newcastle Races
11:58-12:14 Star Kingdom Race Horse
12:15-15:41 Water droplet in slow motion
15:42-15:51 Flower beds in King Edward Park, Newcastle
15:52-17:10 Prawning on Hunter River
17:11-17:35 Kia Ora Race Horse
17:36-18:09 Hexham Oak Factory
18:10-18:34 Prawning
18:35-19:32 Women playing tennis and Men playing tennis
19:33-19:43 Flag being hoisted
19:44-20:04 Lawn Bowls, Adamstown
20:05-20:39 Cricket
20:40-21:38 Oyster Leases
21:39-22:08 Girls in dining room of Hexham Milk Bar
22:09-23:14 Surf at Nobbys Beach
23:15-23:25 Flowers in King Edward Park
23:26-23:34 Apples
23:35-23:47 Newcastle home
23:48-23:57 Roy and Barbara
23:58-24:13 Watagans
24:14-25:16 Nelson Bay and Hawke’s Nest
25:17-25:31 Poppet Heads
25:32-26:23 Flowers at King Edward Park, Newcastle
26:24-26:37 Corn on the Cob
26:38-26:54 Side Raking Hay
26:55-27:14 Water Ski-ing at Glenbawn Dam
27:15-27:39 Hunter Valley Panorama
27:40-33:57 Aerial views of Hexham Oak Factory, BHP Sinter Plant, Newcastle, Bolwarra, Maitland, Cessnock, Denman, Scone, Muswellbrook, Farm house, Glenbawn, Barrington Tops.
33:58-35:29 Sailing through the Weeping Willows on the Paterson River.
35:30-35:41 Aerial of Hexham Oak Factory
35:42-36:10 On the Paterson River
36:11-36:54 Watering Lettuce plants
36:55-38:16 Timber getting in the Barringtons
38:17-40:25 B.H.P. Steelworks Plant Newcastle
40:26-40:52 Cattle herds
40:53-41:54 Corn fields and Harvester
41:55-43:01 Shoal Bay, Nelson’s Bay
43:02-44:10 B.H.P. Newcastle Workers at Knock Off Time, end of day shift.
44:11-44:25 Wheat silos
44:26-44:51 Oak Milk Bar at Glenbawn Dam
44:52-45:34 Barrington Timber
45:35-46:58 Grape picking at Vineyard
46:59-47:04 Barrington Timber
47:05-47:09 Grape picking at Vineyard
47:10-47:36 Barrington Timber
47:37-53:33 Muswellbrook factory
53:34-53:56 Horse sales
53:57-54:07 Scone Soil Conservation Research Station
54:08-54:16 Loading cargo on vessel and leaving harbour
54:17-54:31 Cows, polo, F. Readett A.S.S.
54:32-55:33 Assorted shots Ship leaving port, tractor, emus, kangaroos, windmill, ferns, fruit trees
55:34-57:11 Polo

This reel was donated to the Cultural Collections (Archives), Auchmuty Library,  University of Newcastle (Australia) in November 2013 by The Morpeth Museum.

Thanks to Yvonne Austin, niece of the late Douglass Baglin for granting permission on behalf of the family for this film to be made available to the wider global community.

Gionni Di Gravio
University Archivist


We Live In This Valley (1962) Offcuts Reel 8

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Title: WE LIVE IN THIS VALLEY

Release Date: 1962

Produced as: Documentary

Media: Film

Summary:  Traces the Hunter River from its genesis high in the Barrington Tops through the Hunter Valley till it empties into the sea at Newcastle.

Country of Origin: Australia

Production company:Douglass Baglin Photography

Sponsor: Hunter Valley Co-Op Dairy Co.

Holdings: 8 Reels We Live In This Valley, Offcuts and Projections Prints

Reel 8. We Live In This Valley “Offcuts”

Subjects:

00:00-02:12 Machine Lathes and Operator at Goninans
02:13-04:19 Cattle Breeding N.S.W. Milk Board Artificial Stock Breeding Centre New England Highway Aberdeen
04:20-06:28 Weimanns Jersey Cows
06:29-06:35 Burning Mountain, Wingen
06:37-06:42 Wheat Harvesting
06:43-07:10 Cattle Breeding N.S.W. Milk Board Artificial Stock Breeding Centre New England Highway Aberdeen
07:11-07:28 Jacaranda Trees Baroona, Singleton
07:29-07:53 Singleton Park
07:54-08:20 Singleton Street Scenes
08:21-08:58 Singleton High School
08:58-10:27 Singleton Street Scenes
10:28-10:38 Baroona Homestead, Singleton
10:39-11:07 Sulphide Corporation Cockle Creek Lake Macquarie

This reel was donated to the Cultural Collections (Archives), Auchmuty Library,  University of Newcastle (Australia) in November 2013 by The Morpeth Museum.

Thanks to Yvonne Austin, niece of the late Douglass Baglin for granting permission on behalf of the family for this film to be made available to the wider global community.

Gionni Di Gravio
University Archivist


We Live In This Valley (1962) Production Prints

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On box  (in pen):  “We Live In This Valley” “D Gibison?.
Inside note reads: “3 metres from start break in film”

This is Reel 1 of 8 reels relating to this motion picture donated by The Morpeth Museum to the Cultural Collections (Archives), Auchmuty Library of the University of Newcastle Australia in November 2013.

On box: “We Live In This Valley” K. 41028/9 1x16mm Composite Projection Print. Colour 1992′ Part C.P.12 Kinelab Pty Ltd. Motion Picture & Television Services Sydney Australia.

This is Reel 2 of 8 reels relating to this motion picture donated by The Morpeth Museum to the Cultural Collections (Archives), Auchmuty Library of the University of Newcastle Australia in November 2013.

 

The two films above are two further production prints of the original documentary feature by Douglass Baglin.

They both suffer from a crop of some footage at the beginning, as well as sound in one channel only, but their overall colour balance and quality is better than the original print.

We Live in the Valley (1962) (52 mins) is a documentary film on the Hunter Valley by film maker Douglass Baglin commissioned for the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company Limited (a.k.a. “The Oak”).

Title: WE LIVE IN THIS VALLEY
Release Date: 1962
Produced as: Documentary
Media: Film
Holdings: 8 Reels We Live In This Valley, Offcuts and Projections Prints.

Summary:  Traces the Hunter River from its genesis high in the Barrington Tops through the Hunter Valley till it empties into the sea at Newcastle.

Subjects:

Barrington Tops; Water Sking on Glenbawn Dam including Fishing, Birdlife, and Oak Milk Bar; Scone;  Murrurundi; Burning Mountain at Wingen; Horse Studs; Agricultural Scientific Work; Aberdeen; Beltrees Homestead; Beef Cattle; Sheep and Wool; Merino Sheep in Merriwa Cassilis; Aerial Agriculture Fertilising; Muswellbrook; Lucerne; Oak Tankers; Dairy Production; Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company’s Branxton factory; Power Generation; Denman, Widden Valley, Baramul Stud; Wheat in the Goulburn Valley; Singleton, Baroona Homestead; Aerial view of Paterson River; Maitland; Lucerne on Bolwarra Flats; Agricultural Shows; Polo; Rodeos; Cessnock and Coalfields; Vineyards and Wine; Snow and Ski-ing; Timber Getters; Paterson River and Willows; Dairying on the Paterson Gresford District; Dungog on Williams River; Chichester Dam; Poultry Farms; Raymond Terrace, Baths, Courtaulds Factory, Masonite factory, orchards; Prawners; Sixty Milers; Hexham; Main factory of Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company; Milk Production; Butter; Big game fishing, Bob Dyer at Port Stephens; Oyster Beds; Broken Hill Proprietary Company Steelworks, the ‘BHP'; Wangi Power Station; Sulphide Corporation Plant; ELMA, Nobbys Signal Station; Newcastle City; Mattara Festival; Newcastle Town Hall; War Memorial Cultural Centre; William Dobell at work; King Edward Park; Transport Systems, TV and Radio; Newcastle Beach, Surf Carnivals; Lake Macquarie; Yachting; Horse Racing; Sporting; “Protect the Soil, Conserve the Water”; Children future inheritors.

Country of Origin: Australia
Production company: Douglass Baglin Photography
Commentary: James Dibble
Sound: “KINELAB”
Sponsor: Hunter Valley Co-Op Dairy Co. Ltd

Thanks to Yvonne Austin, niece of the late Douglass Baglin for granting permission on behalf of the family for this film to be made available to the wider global community.

Gionni Di Gravio
University Archivist


Depth

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Depth

DEPTH

Fine Art Students from Hunter Schools High Performers Program 2015

EXHIBITION DATES: 15 – 18 JULY 2015

The University Gallery

Since 2003, the High Performing Students Program has been giving exceptional high school students the opportunity to get a ‘taste’ of university life while still at school. While the program is delivered at Merewether High School, it is open to students from other local schools and aims to keep our best and brightest in the region.

The program is available to students across a number of disciplines such as science, engineering and fine arts. Students enrol in a first year University course and with successful completion they are able to gain credit transfer in a relevant university degree. The program exposes students to an extended learning opportunity, as well as access to world class lecturers and library resources. The students also gain practical industry experience through excursions and exhibitions.

This is the second year of the High Achievers program in Fine Arts. However, it is the first time that the University of Newcastle’s School of Creative Arts has joined with the School of Education to provide a unique focus. The students have been encouraged to explore concepts from science through visual arts. This is an exciting opportunity to further investigate how thinking in the fine arts can inform other ways of understanding knowledge in the world.

FEATURING THE WORK OF:
HARLEY BIRD, CORIN CORCORAN, SOPHIE FILMER, MAX GALBRAITH and
LUCY MAHER – Newcastle High School
ROHAN HEARN – Merewether High School
STEPHANIE CODY – West Wallsend High School
MIRIMA GOLDMAN and BETSIE SHAW – Hunter School of the Performing Arts
ELLA GORE – Whitebridge High School
PARIS PERRY – St Philip’s Christian College
LAINA LEE, IRIS MA and ELAINE WANG – Lambton High School

Please join Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education and Teaching) Professor Liz Burd for the official launch at the University Gallery
THURSDAY 16 JULY AT 5.30PM


Kaleidoscope of Indian cities

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 Neena Mand Kaleidoscope

KALEIDOSCOPE OF INDIAN CITIES

Harpreet (Neena) Mand
with MA Collaborative

EXHIBITION DATES
22 July – 8 August 2015

The University Gallery

In a diverse country like India there are multiple interconnected lives that can be observed at any given time in its myriad cities. These lives, through their intersections and juxtaposition, generate multiple images that may seem contrary. In the face of daunting complexity and palimpsest of histories we have sought to steer away from constructing compelling classifications or attempts to fix the essential character of Indian Cities.

This exhibition seeks to present to the viewer, Indian cities and cultures as being different, but nonetheless containing invisible connections that may seem familiar or utterly strange. It takes a nonlinear approach and presents Indian cities with their irreducible differences that need to be understood in their own terms, but still provide invisible connections whether they are cultural, aesthetic or existential, as observed and experienced by four individuals. The exhibition is not presented as an authoritative text but rather as an exploration and field report on things noticed, fleetingly captured and later discovered, remembered and connected, that evoke different realities and places.

Please join the artist at the opening to be launched by Head of School, Architecture and Built Environment, Professor Sue Anne Ware:
Monday 27 July from 6pm



Neel Raga

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NEEL RAGA Harpreet (Neena) Mand with MA Collaborative

NEEL RAGA

Harpreet (Neena) Mand
with MA Collaborative

EXHIBITION DATES
22 July – 8 August 2015

The University Gallery

In Indian classical music a raga is a framework for composing music, the various ragas identified by their structure. Each raga, through its composition and recital, seeks to create a mood or evoke a rasa/flavour/emotional response in the listener/viewer. Neel, the colour blue, is traditionally extracted from the Indigo plant: it is a pigment that has physicality, but its materiality is spiritual, economic and political. Matter and spirit, labour and agency, are linked in different ways in shaping the contemporary Indian environment.

The exhibition Neel Raga explores Indian aesthetics and use of color in the Indian built environment through photographic images of a particular courtyard house in the city of Jodhpur, within the Indian state of Rajasthan. Through the concept of raga and its associated concept rasa it records the evocation of atmospheres during night and day. Neel is indexical of the temporal and cultural forces at work in Indian society that reflects and refracts transmutation in its symbolical meaning.

Please join the artist at the opening to be launched by Head of School, Architecture and Built Environment, Professor Sue Anne Ware:
Monday 27 July from 6pm


Subversive representation

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SUBVERSIVE REPRESENTATION Ian Wyn Owen with Michael J. Ostwald and Nicholas Charles Foulcher EXHIBITION DATES 22 July - 8 August 2015

SUBVERSIVE REPRESENTATION

Ian Wyn Owen
with Michael J. Ostwald and Nicholas Charles Foulcher

EXHIBITION DATES 22 July – 8 August 2015
The University Gallery

Architecture is often regarded as the art of conceptualising and representing space and form. Modernist architects, for example, conceptualised geometric, often-industrial looking buildings which they represented using a combination of white models and black and white drawings. In contrast, Post-Modern architects rejected the values of Modernism, designing more decorative and symbolically rich buildings, which they represented using coloured and patterned drawings and models. In both cases, the various representational media used were intended to reinforce the core values of each movement. But what if these same designs, the Modern and the Post-Modern, had been represented differently? How significant is representation in the communication of architectural intent?

In this exhibition the facades of ten famous houses – five Modern and five Post-Modern – are revisited using alternative representational strategies. Each new strategy seeks to uncover or reveal the underlying tensions or elisions in the work, using new colours, textures and images to question each architect’s approach. Through the use of both serious and ironic representational approaches, these ten famous buildings are reimagined in a more political, cultural and subversive manner.

Please join the artist at the opening to be launched by Head of School, Architecture and Built Environment, Professor Sue Anne Ware:
Monday 27 July from 6pm

 


C50-PART 2 -AUTONOMY & EARLY PARTNERS

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4135203528_4bf7130b71_oIn 2015, the University of Newcastle celebrates 50 years.  The university has a rich history and the community has been the mainstay, instrumental in its many achievements and milestones.

Students at the UON were active in radical protests, and the Autonomy Day freedom marches, led by renowned Classics Professor Godfrey Tanner, became another important part of the path to autonomy. Students were active in campaigning for civil rights and environmental issues other issues in the 1960s such as opposition to the Vietnam War. Later Autonomy Day events saw students standing up for rights of Aboriginal people in Australia and their non- representation at universities.  Campaigns for equitable access to education for all had an enduring influence, seen through the University’s history of commitment to equity in education.

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Autonomy Day ” We Need An International House” – 19th July 1967. UON Library Cultural Collections. Photograph donated by Katherine MacNeill

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Autonomy Day ” We Need An International House” – 19th July 1967. Autonomy Day, UON Library Cultural Collections. Photograph donated by Katherine MacNeill.

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Autonomy Day, 19th July 1967. Photograph by Ross Smith, UON Library Cultural Collection .

WHO WAS GODFREY TANNER?
Godfrey Tanner (1927-2002) came to Newcastle in 1959 aged 32, initially appointed lecturer at the Newcastle University College he was Professor of Classics at UON, however even earlier than this had responded, along with Auchmuty, in realising the need for a traditional university for Newcastle. He introduced students to the traditions of student life, and taught them that the UON had a part to play in the life of Newcastle and Hunter community. Retiring in 1993, in 1994 the University awarded him an Honorary Degree, a Doctor of the University. In 1998 the Godfrey Tanner Scholarship Fund was established.
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Mrs. Lorna George and Professor Godfrey Tanner at a sporting event, the University of Newcastle, Australia

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Professor Godfrey Tanner, the University of Newcastle, Australia – 1990

12 April 1961 “Freedom march” from Tighes Hill to City Hall led by Godrey Tanner, demanding autonomy and against Baxters who didn’t want to divide the colleges, he supported multi-campus educational institutions.   Many believed that Newcastle University College should continue to operate as a college of the University of NSW, however others pushed for an independent university for Newcastle. On 1 January 1965, the Governor of NSW proclaimed the University of Newcastle Act, marking the University’s foundation as an independent institution & declaring autonomous from the University of NSW.

According to folk legend, our understanding is that autonomy for the University officially began on the 1st January 1965 with a symbolic ceremonial bonfire held at the site of the Great Hall and officiated by the legendary Professor Godfrey Tanner who poured wine libations on the ground to sanctify the land upon which the University rests. The bonfire signified the “the joy of attaining long sought destiny”.

Autonomy day is normally held in early July, and students interpreted it as celebrating the autonomy of the University of Newcastle, from the University of New South Wales.

The date coincided with autonomy of the University of Technology from the Public Service Board control on the 1st July 1954. The students called this day ‘autonomy day’, giving them a sense of the importance of autonomy and were resistive against those on the outside.

The University’s beautiful Grant of Arms is our very own Declaration of Independence. The University of Newcastle was constituted on the 1st January 1965 by a Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales and signed and sealed on the 23rd December 1964 under the provisions of the University of Newcastle Act of that year. This historic document, along with Autonomy Day celebrates the University’s emergence as an autonomous institution in 1965.

The original inspiration for the University’s seahorse design came from Fairbairn’s Book of Crests and was Professor Auchmuty’s favourite design. The coat of arms was based upon that of the Shortland family. Lieutenant John Shortland led the first Colonial Expedition to Newcastle in 1797, and the site upon which the University was built was called Shortland.

The motto adopted for the University ‘I LOOK AHEAD’ was approved by Council in August 1965 and was in keeping with the ambitions of a University and the appearance of the seahorse on the shield. Professor Brin Newton-John is credited with choosing the ‘I look Ahead’ motto and choosing the colours. More information here
More information about Autonomy Day is here.

WHO WAS PROFESSOR BRIN NEWTON-JOHN ?
Professor Brin Newton-John was born in Cardiff in 1914 and studied at Cambridge where he gained a double major in modern languages and history. After graduation he became a teacher and then worked as a RAF pilot during World War II where his knowledge of the German language was especially important and helped him in his top secret intelligence work decoding German communications.He emigrated to Australia in 1954 for a post as Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne. He relocated to Newcastle in 1959 eventually becoming Vice Chancellor of the newly established institution. He retired in 1974.
Professor Brin Newton-John, the University of Newcastle, Australia - c1990s

Professor Brin Newton-John, the University of Newcastle, Australia – c1990s

Early partners of the UON
University and industry have always worked together very closely. The university has encouraged research and discoveries into new and innovative products and solutions through collaboration with industry, business and government partners.
In 1965 the emergence of the UON opened up new cultural and intellectual opportunities for the city of Newcastle and the Hunter Region. Those who began to build the University had a clear vision. Local and regional businesses gave financial and in kind support for the development of the University, this demonstrated, that industries themselves saw a local university as an asset. Newcastle contained the nation’s largest concentration of heavy industry, Newcastle’s largest employers were BHP and it may have seemed to some a place that did not need a university. The majority of students at the new UON when it opened undertook degrees associated with heavy industry, such as science and engineering. Companies such as BHP were there from the beginning to support the University, a partnership that endured for decades.
In the late 1960s, Newcastle’s largest employers were BHP, Stewarts and Lloyds, Commonwealth Steel and the State Dockyard. Newcastle contained the nation’s largest concentration of heavy industry. The majority of students were apprentices or trainees in heavy industry, and these industries supported science and engineering offering financial and in kind support of the development of the University.

BHP invested in the latest technology and shared its resources with academics.  One example was an IBM1620 computer installed at the works in 1962 which was made available to staff of the Mathematics Department and later relocated to the University.  A commercial arm of the university.

Two gentlemen using IBM1620 data processing system, the University of Newcastle, Australia

Two gentlemen using IBM1620 data processing system, the University of Newcastle, Australia

For industries in the region UON has had a strong research focus from the beginning and the University’s early partners were associated with industry in the region, they included BHP and other heavy industry and the focus of research in the areas of Science and Engineering.  Industry invested in technology and shared resources with academics and the University has always been responsive to industry partners and its students.  A commercial arm of the university known as The University of Newcastle Research Associates Ltd (TUNRA) was set up in 1969 to manage research and consultancies conducted with private funding.  Financial and in kind support from industry of the development of the University demonstrated that the industries themselves saw a local university as an asset.  This close relationship persisted.  BHP invested in the latest technology and shared its resources with academics.

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TUNRA display on Open Day, the University of Newcastle, Australia

TUNRA enabled research to be undertaken at the university and be delivered to provide services to business and industry in the region.   Through TUNRA the university provided equipment and knowledge to operate pollution measuring devices to help improve condition of people living in industrial areas. Today the UON’s technology transfer company is named Newcastle Innovation.

NBN 3-University of Newcastle Environment Measurement Unit” (EMU) being driven around their streets. Sophisticated “sniffing” Equipment has been installed in the vehicle, which will be used to obtain data on the quantities of some of the main pollutants in Newcastle’s atmosphere at a range of locations. The service has, in large part, been made possibly by the Newcastle Broadcasting and Television Corporation Limited, which operates a commercial television station, NBN Channel.” MOVABLE POLLUTION TESTING –Gazette April 1972

A Phillips’ technician completing installation of the SO2 monitor in a Kombi van at the University of Newcastle, Australia

A Phillips’ technician completing installation of the SO2 monitor in a Kombi van at the University of Newcastle, Australia

“FIRST THERMAL SCANNER IN AUSTRALIA – A Daedalus (or Thermal) Remote Sensing Scanner has been acquired by the Department of Physics to enable the Department to obtain “heat pictures” of stretch of terrain flown over by aircraft carrying the Scanner. It is the first equipment of this sort to be operated in Australia. Valued at approximately $80,000 the scanner and associated equipment employ infrastructure radiation to reveal interesting data on resources and other features.” Gazette February  1971

Initially the University was involved in fields such as engineering and chemistry, today the university has pushed into areas of energy and the environment, health and medical research as seen in partnerships with Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) in 1998 and Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER) in 2010.

UON C50 – PART 1 – ASPIRATIONS FOR A UNIVERSITY 

Sources

Wright, D. (1992) Looking Back : A History of the University of Newcastle. The University of Newcastle: Callaghan.

Our Univer-city: Recasting the city of Newcastle as a knowledge hub. http://www.newcastle.edu.au/about-uon/our-university/celebrate-50-years/our-univer-city Adapted from Cushing, N., Quinn, K., and McMillen, I.C. “Recasting the City of Newcastle as a Univer-city: The Journey from ‘Olde’ Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the New Silk Road”. In Teo, A.S.C. (Ed.). (2014). Univer-Cities volume II. Manuscript in preparation.

University Archives held at UON Auchmuty Library Cultural Collections.

UON Flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/uon

Information compiled by Dr Ann Hardy for the C50 Project on behalf of UON Library Cultural Collections June 2015.


Free Oral History Workshop at Muswellbrook Library

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A few members of our Cultural Collections team will be conducting an Oral History Workshop at Muswellbrook Library on the 26th August 2015 between 9:30 am and 1:30 pm.

Free Oral History Workshop at Muswellbrook

This free workshop is part of a project called Voices of the Hunter which is managed by the University of Newcastle, with support from the Coalfields Heritage Group and Coal & Allied. This project follows in the footsteps of Oral History Collector, Jack Delaney (pictured above), who produced a large number of recordings on cassette over a period of 20 years. This collection is held by the Coalfields Heritage Group, who loaned it to the University for digitisation. The collection is now being made freely available online.

The aim of the workshops is to reach out to anyone in the Coalfields community who would like to learn how to plan, organise and collect their own history whether it is family or community history. The presenters will give participants the confidence to assemble and preserve their collected stories. It is an opportunity to see the world through the eyes of others and appreciate how things came to be.

If you would like to participate in the workshop please make a booking at Muswellbrook Library or phone (02) 6543 1913 by August 12th. Places are limited.


History Research Seminar Series Semester 2, 2015

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History @ Newcastle

Research Seminar Series

ALL WELCOME!!

Seminars are held in Cultural Collections @ Auchmuty Library (ground floor, through AIC), from 10am, and are followed by morning tea at 11am.

Semester Two, 2015

Week 3
Friday 14 Aug.
Ken Thornton – UoN
“The ‘Poles and Wires’ do not care who owns them. Should we? The rise of centralised coordination of electricity generation and transmission in New South Wales 1888-2003.”
Week 5
Friday 28 Aug.
Julie McIntyre – UoN
“Australia’s Atlantic: Trans-imperial encounters, exchange and entanglement”
Week 7
Friday 11 Sept.
TBC
Week 9
Friday 9 Oct.
Chris Cuneen – Macquarie
“The ADB 50 Years On: updating Dangar, Dumaresq and co”
Week 11
Friday 23 Oct.
Jo May – UoN
“Headmistresses, Archives and Audit Selves: reflections on the first two female principals of Maitland Girls High School 1884-1887″
Week 13
Friday 6 Nov.
Michael Kilmister – UoN
‘Treading on Anzac’s Sacred Ground: Fight or Flight?’*

For more information contact matthew.lewis@newcastle.edu.au or visit the History @ Newcastle Facebook page.


*This paper is co-authored by Dr James Bennett and Dr Jennifer Debenham.


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