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Paddle steamer on the Hunter River near Duckenfield, c. 1890
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Raymond Terrace on the Hunter River. The old wharf area is called King Street after James King an early potter and trader. Information board in the Sketchley Cottage Museum.
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Raymond Terrace. This iron bark slab cottage from around 1850 was occupied by the Sketchley family of former convicts. Now the Raymond Terrace Museum. The living room.
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Raymond Terrace. This iron bark slab cottage from around 1850 was occupied by the Sketchley family of former convicts. Now the Raymond Terrace Museum. Vines cover the veranda.
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Raymond Terrace on the Hunter River. The old wharf area is called King Street after James King an early potter and trader. Old two storey stores in King Street..
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Raymond Terrace. This iron bark slab cottage from around 1850 was occupied by the Sketchley family of former convicts. Now the Raymond Terrace Museum.
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Maitland NSW. An outbuilding later used as a launddry but originally servants quarters in the garden of Grossman House. Grossman House is a National Trust property.
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Maitland NSW. An early British china fruit bowl and a cheese cover. In Grossman House a National Trust property.
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Maitland NSW. The rear of Grossman House a National Trust property built in the 1870s.
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Morpeth. In High St is Murphy’s House - a successful town publican with two hotels. A fine Regency style house probably built in the 1840s.
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Morpeth in the HunterValley. Old advertising on a shed for Morses Indian Root Pills.
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Newcastle. Sunset on the port from the Rydges Waterfront Hotel.
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Paterson NSW. The old assigned convicts barracks on Tocal estate. This building erected in 1840.
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Newcastle. The clock tower on the City Hall and the spire of the Presbyterian Church from Rydges Waterfront Hotel.
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Paterson NSW. Tocal House. Built in 1839 with perfect Georgian symmetry for Felix Wilson.
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Paterson . Tocal House. Built in 1839 with perfect Georgian symmetry for Felix Wilson.
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Newcastle. Christ Church Anglican Cathedral. Built from 1883 to 1902. Architect John horbury Hunt. Side chapel and the font. Good stained glass windows. .
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Newcastle. NSW. St Andrews Presbyterian Church opened in 1890. Architect Frederick Menkens. The first church here was built in 1854.
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Newcastle. NSW. The former Courthouse built 1890. First courthouse 1822 and second 1837. This Courthouse was designed by Colonial Architect, James Barnet. Italianate in style.
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Newcastle. NSW. Watt Street. The walled convict era site had the main barracks for British troops. Started 1838 completed 1843. Used for troops till 1851. Later became a reformatory then hospital.
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Newcastle. On the 1872 Public Works building is this plaque.Streets in the city named after British engineers. Watt Bolton Stephenson etc.
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Newcastle. The Customs House. Built 1876. Architect James Barnet. Detail of oriel window with bust of Queen Victoria below it. .
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Newcastle. Well maintianed terrace houses in Newcomen Street from the mid 19th century.
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Newcastle.NSW City Hall with the clock tower. Built in 1929.
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Paterson NSW . Postal serviies began in 1843 but this Post Office was only built in 1885.
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Paterson. NSW The Catholic Church. Built in 1884 in church Street.
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Branxton. The red brick Catholic Presbytery with an unusual balcony railing in brick. Built in 1932..
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Branxton. This down side of the railway station was built in 1915 when the railway passenger bridge was also built.
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Mailtand. NSW. The five bay Italianate facade of the Australian Joint Stock Bank built in 1882. Window detail with carved sandstone figure head key stones. In recent decades a residence and guest house.
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Mailtand. NSW. The five bay Italianate facade of the Australian Joint Stock Bank built in 1882. Window detail with pediment and Greek columns. In recent decades a residence and guest house.
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Maitland East. This sandstone church was designed by architects Cyril and Arthur Blacket, sons of the famous Edmund Blacket architect. The church was completed in 1885. Six magnificent stained glass windows. .
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Maitland. This imposing church was begun in 1860 and opened in 1867. The architect was the noted Edmund Blackett. Note the fine stone tracery in the windows. Gothic in style in local sandstone and of grand proportions.
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Morpeth on the Hunter River. James Taylor built three adjoining sandstone buildings for his Bond Store circa 1850. They are now shops and homes.
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Morpeth. James Taylor's Bond Store. Built around 1850 as three sandstone buildings. Now other uses.
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Morpeth. At 149 Swan St is the fine Commercial Banking Company of Sydney building. It opened in 1889 and is a good example of an Italianate building.
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Morpeth. Information board about thr Arnott family bakehouse in Morpeth.
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Pokolbin. The Hunter Valley Gardens. Established by Bill Roche who owned Nutrimetics. 4 years to build it with 40 to 50 workers. 14 hectares in size which is 35 acres. Vista and an urn...
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Ramond Terrace. NSW. Old warehosue and auction rooms on the Hunter River and King Street. Built around 1854. Run by the Richardson family until 1910.
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Raymond Terrace. The Anglican Rectory built of local sandstone in 1844. Now run as a function centre. .
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Raymond Terrace. The Anglican Rectory built of local sandstone in 1844. Side view and veranda. Now run as a function centre. .
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Raymond Terrace. The history of ex convict William Sketchley.Built a slab hut here. It was replaced in 1857.
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Raymond Terrace. The old headmaster's residence at the primary school. Built circa 1905.
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Newcastle. View from the Obelisk built in 1850. The T & G Insurance building is seven stories high in the Main Street. Beyond is Nobbys lighthouse.
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Morpeth. Richard Chapman built this shop and house in 1851. In 1868 the Arnott family bought it for their bakery established in the early 1840s. Arnotts became a national biscuit manufacturer in 20th century.
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Morpeth. The avenue of trees and driveway which linked Closeburne House built in 1829 to the Anglican Church at the end built in 1837.
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Morpeth. The classical Italianate style Courthouse built in 1862. Closed as a Court in 1950. Now the town museum.
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Morpeth. Taylors sandstone Bond Store built around 1850 in Swan Street.
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Morpeth. The classical Italianate style Courthouse built in 1862. Closed as a Court in 1950. Now the town museum. Side view.
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Port Hunter dredge, the David Allan, heads out to sea from a flooded Hunter River,
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Port Hunter dredge, the David Allan,
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Port Hunter tug, Svitzer Myall, cajoles a carrier through Port Hunter.
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Amish buggy traffic sign in Prince Edward Island, Canada
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Amish buggy traffic sign in Prince Edward Island, Canada
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Malpeque Constituency Office
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Bar-tailed Godwit mural, Stockton Bridge
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Bar-tailed Godwit mural
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Stockton Bridge
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Stockton Bridge
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Avocet mural
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Avocet mural
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