This is the home for various pages on Newcastle local history that I have written that are not part of my series of monthly articles for The Local.

• Hunter Valley
  • Pokolbin’s Lost Airstrip
• Lake Macquarie
  • Bull’s Garden, Whitebridge
  • Coon Island
  • Railway Deviation, Teralba
• Lambton
  • A date etched in history
  • Jesmond Hill horse racing track
  • Lambton Churches
  • Lambton Colliery Office Steps
  • Lambton Hotels
  • Lambton Ker-rai, Then and Now
  • Lambton Memorial Baby Health Centre
  • Lambton Park Memorial Gates Kangaroos
  • Lambton Park Rotunda 1973
  • Parched in history
  • Peacock’s Corner
  • Tharwa Road, Lambton
  • The A.H.P.P and C. Society
  • The Megalomaniacal Mine Manager Myth
  • The other Hill street
  • The Skyline drive-in
• New Lambton
  • Blackley and Wallarah Ovals
  • Copper Smelter, Part 1
  • Copper Smelter, Part 2
  • Freyberg St – Then and Now
  • NLPS Centenary Book Corrections
  • Ralph Snowball’s House and Studio
  • The Grange, New Lambton
• Newcastle
  • Adventures Up The Gully Line
  • Birdwood Park, Newcastle West
  • Boat Harbour, Carrington
  • Bond Street, Newcastle, 1964
  • Corlette St, Cooks Hill
  • Croudace Road, Elermore Vale
  • Gasworks, Waratah
  • Glebe Hill Reservoir, Merewether
  • Hartley Vale Colliery, Newcastle
  • Lockyer St, Adamstown
  • Mechanics’ Institute, Adamstown
  • Mechanics’ Institute, Hamilton
  • Occident St, Waratah West
  • Railway Street, Merewether
  • Stockton Bridge
  • The drain explain
  • The Edden political dynasty
  • The gathering storm clouds of war
  • The Hill, Newcastle
  • The lost municipality of Mulibimbah
  • Tudor St, Hamilton
  • Walsh Island Aerodrome, Kooragang
• Newcastle Municipal Councils
  • Waratah Council
  • Wickham Council
  • Lambton Council
    • Lambton Aldermen (1871-1938)
  • Hamilton Council
  • Wallsend Council
  • Plattsburg Council
  • Merewether Council
  • Adamstown Council
    • Adamstown Aldermen (1886-1938)
  • Carrington Council
  • New Lambton Council
    • New Lambton Aldermen (1889-1938)
  • Stockton Council
• Newcastle’s Obsolete Place Names
  • Brookstown
  • Fort Scratchley
  • Frog Hollow
  • Glendor
  • Heaton
  • Platts Hill
  • Styles Grove
• Searching the HLRV
  • How it was