The University of Newcastle Cultural Collections has a photographic panorama of Lambton, taken from the top of Noble St in North Lambton in 1904. I have created an annotated version of this photograph with the following streets marked …
- High St
- Hill St
- Young St (Newcastle Rd)
- Morehead St
- Howe St
- Croudace St
- Grainger St
- Noble St
and the following items of interest marked …
- Post Office
- Mechanics Institute
- Lambton Park Rotunda
- Lambton Colliery railway bridges over the tramway and Howe St
- Exchange Hotel (now Lambton Park Hotel)
- Old Stone House in Howe St
- Red Lion Inn
- St Johns Church of England
- Congregational Church
- Site of Lambton Electric Light generating station
- Lambton/Jesmond tramway cutting
- Lambton Lodge (home of Thomas Croudace)
- Lambton Public School
Annotated panorama of Lambton in 1904. Click on image for larger version. (6MB)
Any corrections or suggested additions to the annotations are welcome.
Technical note: The annotations were done using Visio 2013, but unfortunately Visio doesn’t handle exporting to raster image formats when there is a large image involved – it just gives a horribly unhelpful “Visio is unable to complete exporting” error message. To get around this, I exported to SVG format, then used the CloudConvert online image conversion site to convert the SVG to a JPG file.