From the Archives
- NBN ~ Preparing for Colour
It’s 1970. Colour television is coming and Newcastle’s Channel 3 has a lot of work to do. Viewers are impatient. After all, Baird demonstrated colour in ...
- No French Bomb Tests
Protest graffiti in Newcastle is sparse. It might be more common than we know, obfuscated as elaborate tags, or inferred by image or word in ...
- Stockton ~ The Disappearing
Crowds and a procession of cars inspect the aftermath of a winter storm in 1948 Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 20th June 1948, Henry Skilton ...
- Passion Over Pasha Bulker
MV Pasha Bulker leaves Newcastle Harbour 26 July 2007 for repairs in Japan Eleven o’clock departure time was an hour ago, yet Newcastle Harbour lay wide, ...
- Mayfield Repainted
Passing Parade Despite the constant din of traffic, dysfunction and endemic ugliness, Mayfield’s main street can be a pleasant venue – at least, from one of ...
- The Fleeting Glory of KA-11
Newcastle loves boats. The harbour, foreshores, breakwaters, and beaches make boat-watching an easy and inviting pleasure. When a special maritime visitor draws crowds of Novocastrians from their ...
- 19 Goes for a Spin
Early morning on Kooragang Island, Tuesday, 12 May 2009. Sound asleep among the trees, South Maitland Railways (SMR) No. 19 steam locomotive stirred, oblivious to a ...