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Frog Hollow

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Quite number of locations around Newcastle seem to have attracted the name Frog Hollow …

  1. An area in Wickham near Lindus St.
  2. A stagnant waterhole on the AA Company’s land near Darby Street, Cooks Hill.
  3. In Mayfield, corner of Ingall and Crebert Streets.
  4. An area between Wallsend and Jesmond where the tramline ran beside the Waratah Coal Company railway.
The area in Wallsend known as “Frog Hollow” where the tramline ran parallel to the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Co railway. 1944 aerial photograph.
The same area in 2024.

This page is part of the collection of Newcastle’s Obsolete Place Names.

Corlette St, Cooks Hill

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Mike Scanlon had an interesting article in yesterday’s Newcastle Herald about the appearance of the famous English cricketer W.G. Grace at a cricket match in Newcastle 125 years ago, on Friday 5th February 1892. The Newcastle Morning Herald had a report of the match on the following day.

“The match between 12 members of Lord Sheffield’s team of cricketers and 20 members of clubs in the Newcastle district was commenced on the Newcastle Cricket Ground yesterday.”

The only surviving remnant of the Newcastle Cricket Club is the odd little reserve in the middle of Corlette St in Cooks Hill.

Corlette St, Cooks Hill. Google Maps.
Corlette St, Cooks Hill. Google Earth.

Corlette St originally only extended as far south as Parry St. T. S. Parrott’s 1893 map shows an unlabelled rectangle in the area between Parry and Tooke Streets.

Corlette St, Cooks Hill. 1893. National Library of Australia

Corporal Barrett’s 1910 map shows the area marked as a “Football Ground”.

Corlette St, Cooks Hill. 1910. University of Newcastle, Living Histories.

By 1917 the sporting ground had gone, and the area had been subdivided by the A.A. Company and was being sold off at an auction on 1st December 1917.

Corlette St, Cooks Hill. 1917. University of Newcastle, Living Histories.

Confirmation that this is the site of the W.G. Cricket match comes in a short newspaper piece spruiking the auction.

“The sites are portion of the A.A. Company’s Cook’s Hill Estate, which embraces the old Newcastle Cricket Ground area.”