https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories daily 0.75 2026-03-31 https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/jocko-graves monthly 0.5 2026-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d6cc621a-109b-452c-bc28-332f747e8dfd/Delaware.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ - Make it stand out Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760906997482-TDPGKAH2D5TOLFR0CW0W/8111571798_03607dc1c8_o.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760907005690-NSF34BVZ8OWCLNA0OWPW/Sternbeck314521-024.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ - 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/30f0aeb0-8eb5-4f33-bc4b-14799c0e147d/Pryor.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ - Make it stand out Ken Pryor taking a mould of the original cast iron statue, Pryors Plasterworks, 1971 (Athel D’Ombrain Collection, Living Histories, University of Newcastle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7f559a3a-cffb-455d-abc5-db47cbe21a55/reinstallation.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ - Make it stand out Jocko Graves statue being replaced, Maitland, (Athel D’Ombrain Collection, Living Histories, University of Newcastle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760737413041-DAUQJLPV2KPX0RZPJHMN/B10401_N1128.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760737427735-P78CLQ9PHIWDEOSRZO5N/B10401_N1128c.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760737398401-AR8SV40N9BXMP04D6D2Q/B10401_N1128b.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760738146740-K104AM6CWS57FHCJP93A/Badge.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760738221777-390QLUNWB6XMKR3TG6DO/phone%2Bbook.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9a82a45d-0306-4c91-91df-437023538455/with+broom.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ - Make it stand out Jocko with broom (Athel D’Ombrain Collection, Living Histories, University of Newcastle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/dd9b7e30-5500-4aa2-b0b0-44c1470c8aee/Mitchell+Griffin.jpg Stories - Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ - Jocko with Maitland City Councillor Mitchell Griffin, 2023 (Newcastle Weekly) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitland-mechanics-institute monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/91ac107a-51f7-4a4b-8747-7311d455e992/26705201925_b65172b389_c.jpg Stories - Maitland Mechanics’ Institute - Make it stand out Maitland Mechanics’ Institute, Banks St, East Maitland, about 1890 photographed by George Thomas Chambers (Picture Maitland - Chambers Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3552f370-fc13-469d-8904-0586af909d6e/26678657206_7e79129d54_c.jpg Stories - Maitland Mechanics’ Institute - Make it stand out Mechanics’ Institute main hall, about 1890 photographed by George Thomas Chambers (Picture Maitland - Chambers Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/24d0a68b-b9e4-4e02-999e-32ab553ae0de/12962592395_1658465b1c_c.jpg Stories - Maitland Mechanics’ Institute - Make it stand out First Annual Firemen’s Ball, Literary Institute, 1934 (Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760397649269-R8B75Y850TXIKD6W10D7/11230714015_8824f96f46_c.jpg Stories - Maitland Mechanics’ Institute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760321674102-7ZWQSX8X33Z42VFRHWM1/Picture3.jpg Stories - Maitland Mechanics’ Institute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760321677636-TIKWVED1TBJOFOSKZY28/Picture4.jpg Stories - Maitland Mechanics’ Institute https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/piping-and-drumming-in-maitland monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/908b7597-67fb-40fe-88f2-5779b08196dd/Picture1.jpg Stories - Seventy-five years of piping and drumming in Maitland - Make it stand out Maitland District Pipe Band at the Tamworth Highland Gathering, 1957 The band gained 3rd place in the A Grade Championship. Drum Major - Ken Tucker; Pipe Major - Don Johnson; Pipers - Dick Graham, Nancy Graham, Ina Bennett, Bob Dewar, Nancy Grubb, Doug Lambert, Bob Griffiths; Drummers - Roy Cheetham (base), Keith McLenan, Harley Longbottom, J Clarence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/b90f9917-ab8d-47a3-84b4-114095b5e0ca/Picture2.jpg Stories - Seventy-five years of piping and drumming in Maitland - Make it stand out The visit of Patrick Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale, November 1984. From left, in front: Stuart Wilson, Shirley Wilson, the Earl, Janette Massey and Joe Skinner. (Shirley Wilson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/24680b78-68b4-406d-b073-ea10ef501ee9/Picture3.jpg Stories - Seventy-five years of piping and drumming in Maitland - Make it stand out Band members at the 50th Anniversary celebrations on 16 March, 1997 Back row: Stuart Wilson, Greg Dewar, John Duncan, Bill Turnbull. Middle row: Greg Queenan, Andrew O’Neill, Murdoch Gilbert, Malcolm Causley, Ben Lewis. Front row: Robert Cheetham, Graham Gawthorpe, Shirley Wilson, Don Pirie, Sue O’Neill, Roy Cheetham, Andrew Gilbert (Henderson Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/bd5d66ae-a952-4697-a646-2c0e80f16e28/Picture4.jpg Stories - Seventy-five years of piping and drumming in Maitland - Make it stand out Anzac Day, Morpeth, 2018. The band has attended Anzac Day services throughout the Maitland district since 1948 (Henderson Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760317775102-YYKA5U8Q0BFVE9919VKC/Picture5.jpg Stories - Seventy-five years of piping and drumming in Maitland - Maitland Regional Museum display https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760317777972-097AFE2C31TAX5DQZSZ6/Picture6.jpg Stories - Seventy-five years of piping and drumming in Maitland - Book cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1760317781902-5MNQFG8GKBQ2DSPEEWOK/Picture7.jpg Stories - Seventy-five years of piping and drumming in Maitland - Book launch l to r: Meryl Swanson (Federal Member for Paterson), Greg Queenan (Secretary Pipes and Drums), Jenny Aitchison (State Member for Maitland), Peter Blacknmore (Patron Pipes and Drums and former Mayor of Maitland), Janece McDonald (President Maitland Regional Museum) and Lawrie Henderson (the book’s author) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/dcd0f4de-e8fa-4ede-a55a-30373f6080c2/Picture8.jpg Stories - Seventy-five years of piping and drumming in Maitland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/george-yeomans monthly 0.5 2025-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1758314936050-O674MAV360SKRSGQ5QU9/IMG_0734.jpg Stories - George Yeomans, entrepreneur of early Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1758267635990-O0IF4DK0J144CDKFYJ1S/IMG_0737.jpg Stories - George Yeomans, entrepreneur of early Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/137e972a-2824-4902-a663-155c017816e2/Monitor+1827-09-13+p7.jpg Stories - George Yeomans, entrepreneur of early Maitland - Make it stand out The Monitor (Sydney), 13 September 1827, p7 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a3b23fd4-aa03-4a51-9c8b-f8e058da9606/Sydney+Gazette+1828-06-13+p1.jpg Stories - George Yeomans, entrepreneur of early Maitland - Sydney Gazette, 13 June 1828, p1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4bd7d794-3bfa-41b2-8c24-c8c9abb286a7/1855-isn31march1855-b.jpg Stories - George Yeomans, entrepreneur of early Maitland - Make it stand out An engraving of part of High St near the Angel Inn, which Yeomans leased from Molly Morgan (The Illustrated Sydney News, 31 March 1855, p142) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/05f820e5-b86a-4e3d-ae4b-9bf688c1007c/Northumberland+Hotel+Licence+1846.jpg Stories - George Yeomans, entrepreneur of early Maitland - Publican’s licence for the Northumberland Hotel, 1846 (Ancestry.com.au copied from NSW State Archives Publicans’ Licences) One of eight publicans’ licenses recorded for George Yeomans in the NSW State Archives Publicans’ Licences Index. The earliest, in 1834, is for The Sportsman. There is one in 1844 for the Northumberland. Note that the licence reproduced here was signed by Edward Denny Day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f35ea6e5-246d-459c-968b-ba202aa54a2e/Find+a+grave.jpeg Stories - George Yeomans, entrepreneur of early Maitland - George Yeomans gravestone, Campbells Hill Cemetery (Find-A-Grave) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-telephone-comes-to-maitland monthly 0.5 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c93f6cc2-c682-4586-9ccc-862fd2e8af6b/Picture1.jpg Stories - The telephone comes to Maitland - Alexander Graham Bell’s Large Box Telephone, circa 1876 Alexander Graham Bell’s Large Box Telephone, circa 1876. (The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/8c564b93-4f61-40aa-8867-d02ff553fa11/Picture2.jpg Stories - The telephone comes to Maitland - Early Siemens & Halske telephones and call whistles as used in Sydney. They are similar to those used in Cracknell’s Maitland experiment. Early Siemens & Halske telephones and call whistles as used in Sydney. They are similar to those used in Cracknell’s Maitland experiment. (Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/b301bc83-9ea0-4927-adce-7a90d5de49e0/Picture3.jpg Stories - The telephone comes to Maitland - Early wall-mounted telephone, circa 1910. Early wall-mounted telephone, circa 1910. The crank on the right turns a magneto, producing an electric current that rings a bell at the exchange, alerting the operator. The earpiece is in a cradle on the left and the mouthpiece protrudes from the front. The bell above the mouthpiece is rung by the exchange, alerting the owner of an incoming phone call (Communications & Phones) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9a805a81-851b-4427-95c4-d727a54a7f92/Picture4.jpg Stories - The telephone comes to Maitland - A 1970s rotary dial telephone (CalloohCallay Gallery) A number was selected and the dial turned to the stop. The dial returned and the next number was selected and so on. An automatic exchange then connected the user to the selected phone number. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/pharmacies-in-high-st-during-the-1950s-and-1960s monthly 0.5 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/baf4d1fb-446e-41c7-b153-5f34f41b2871/Picture1.jpg Stories - Pharmacies in High St during the 1950s and 1960s - Make it stand out The pharmacy in Quaye’s time, about 1890. (Maitland Mercury) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/dfaba787-74d5-4ad8-a5bb-85dfff482e6c/Picture2.jpg Stories - Pharmacies in High St during the 1950s and 1960s - An advertisement by TB Hill, late 1890s. (Maitland Mercury) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/b57441d5-366e-45cb-979a-1b2d85ca3622/Picture3.jpg Stories - Pharmacies in High St during the 1950s and 1960s - Make it stand out Women employed at Wallis’s pharmacy Left to right: Betty Walker, Nancy Elliott, Joy Walterback, Jan Greenwood (Susan Steggall Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3bb8acc5-4521-4fef-a091-f8282589afcd/Picture4.jpg Stories - Pharmacies in High St during the 1950s and 1960s - Make it stand out The interior of Wallis’s at 455 High St (Susan Steggall Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/647dcc2e-8429-4fa5-96d4-e17baaab8f22/Picture5.jpg Stories - Pharmacies in High St during the 1950s and 1960s - Make it stand out Floodwaters outside Jakeman’s chemist and the Commercial Bank of Australia, High St, 1955. (Jim Lucey photograph, University of Newcastle). Immediately east of Jakemans was the site of the former Albion Inn, which for a time accommodated several doctors’ surgeries including those of Dr RJ Pierce and Dr William J Russell for whom the chemists operated as dispensers in the later nineteenth century. The inn, a major Maitland landmark for years, was demolished in 1915. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitlands-steam-trains monthly 0.5 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/65e3217f-3ecb-46f9-aa10-ff98adf74cc4/IMG_7844.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams - The inscribed shovel used by the Minister for Works to turn the first sod, 19 July 1907. (Australian Town and Country Journal, 24 July 1907, p 25) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e6f85e68-531d-4b75-8b23-a95bc2fbbb9c/27412635823_81fac3f26d_c.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams - Make it stand out Opening day of tram from East to West Maitland, 1909 (State Library of NSW) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/558b20eb-b1f1-425f-80d3-9367d0f3bc4f/IMG_7845.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams - Make it stand out The first tram in Newcastle St on opening day, 1909 (K Magor Collection) (also Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d439d5b5-2dfa-4b5d-a440-76771ca3f3a1/IMG_7846.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams - Make it stand out A tram crossing the Long Bridge to Campbell’s Hill (Kerry photograph) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/28b5861b-da71-466e-843f-c2797eda7a3f/IMG_7848.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams - Make it stand out The railway line through Maitland and the tram’s route at its greatest extent. (MacCowan) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/53f8f3e7-c2af-4fc3-b131-dec0d1fb3788/9529622766_3387a92410_c.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams - Make it stand out Train derailment, Maitland, about 1917 (Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3a8360e4-7501-4762-9c4b-b49864864055/IMG_7847.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams - Make it stand out Tram at intersection of High St and Church St. The RJ Pierce Memorial Fountain at bottom right. (K Magor Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3bd7b4b8-062c-47f6-b288-225e58e92ada/IMG_7850.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams - Make it stand out Trams at intersection of High St and Church St, West Maitland, about 1912 (Athel D’Ombrain Collection, University of Newcastle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1758072440558-MHIWX0RHCD0MRAYSFGOB/9596707162_58f237692c_c.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1758072601057-5C33YV256PCYZGDSEP4N/12332043953_955c9eb365_c.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/0f1ecb35-4699-4aab-812e-703b40f69a17/IMG_7851.jpg Stories - Maitland’s steam trams - Make it stand out The last tram departs for Newcastle, with ‘In loving memory’ and ‘Gone but not forgotten’ inscribed on the motor, 1926. (RF Moag Collection) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-chinese-gardeners-of-maitland monthly 0.5 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9bfdf196-f1ad-44f3-9cab-f0a82345a41d/Picture1.jpg Stories - The Chinese gardeners of Maitland - Chinese vegetable hawker, c1897 (Victorian Collections) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/558d470a-5ff1-414d-a251-358e061056c5/Picture2.jpg Stories - The Chinese gardeners of Maitland - The California Pump https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/14da7c20-e4ae-4a6e-97ad-0b12a4f9b93e/11698590855_48ffb4e187_c+-+Copy.jpg Stories - The Chinese gardeners of Maitland - Make it stand out An 1881 map showing a proposed road (Park St) and the location of Chinese gardens, South Maitland. (Picture Maitland)(image of original at Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/8f4f0580-959e-462c-b483-015e98492a6e/IMG_5015.png Stories - The Chinese gardeners of Maitland - A Tasmanian potato crop in recent times (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/ducks-and-alligators-in-maitlands-floods monthly 0.5 2025-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d4c2febf-653e-43e4-9f33-4b6aaf355910/Lucey+DUKW.jfif Stories - ‘Ducks’ and ‘alligators’ in Maitland’s floods - Make it stand out A DUKW operating in Maitland in 1955 (Jim Lucey Collection, University of Newcastle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6fb1fcea-9aed-4ccd-bc6e-e11008ca2136/IMG_7839.jpg Stories - ‘Ducks’ and ‘alligators’ in Maitland’s floods - Make it stand out An alligator in High St, Maitland, in 1949 (Peter Bogan Collection, Maitland Libraries) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/34461c22-4533-4aef-ae17-c96d5a123215/Orrock.jpg Stories - ‘Ducks’ and ‘alligators’ in Maitland’s floods - Constable Bernard Orrock (Australian Police, memorial website) Orrock was posthumously awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for Gallantry and the Bronze Medal of the Shipwreck and Humane Society for his efforts in Maitland during the 1955 flood. He is listed on the Honour Roll, National Police Memorial. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/otto-baldwin monthly 0.5 2025-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cf2ddf58-41fa-4d4c-b518-c06f90c3a88b/Mulbring+estate.jpg Stories - Otto Baldwin, colonial entrepreneur with wide-ranging interests - Make it stand out Map showing the location of Baldwin’s ‘Mulbring Estate’ at Mount Vincent (Kevin Short collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3dfe05d1-ddbd-415e-8682-d08b0567cea0/Mausoleum.jpg Stories - Otto Baldwin, colonial entrepreneur with wide-ranging interests - Make it stand out The overgrown mausoleum of Otto and Mary Ann Baldwin in the Campbells Hill Cemetery (Kevin Short) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/059fba60-3133-4293-9fb6-39d41b070b56/Diniwarindi+Station.jpg Stories - Otto Baldwin, colonial entrepreneur with wide-ranging interests - Make it stand out Diniwarindi Station, Namoi River, NSW, 1870 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f2146b51-1f66-41d5-b1b4-ff17b895426f/MM+1874-09-22+p2.jpg Stories - Otto Baldwin, colonial entrepreneur with wide-ranging interests - Make it stand out Death notice for Otto Baldwin, Maitland Mercury, 22 September 1874, p2 https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-maitland-lions-club-and-lionsville monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d691bfc2-2b3f-47df-a91c-4d85ff734664/IMG_0736.jpg Stories - The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’ - Make it stand out Part of a 1955 Maitland Mercury article on applications for land off the floodplain. (Maitland Mercury, 11 March 1955) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/63f2e0fc-e303-4dfd-84bb-869202d1a13c/Lionsville+IMG_0725.jpg Stories - The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’ - Make it stand out The street plan of ‘Lionsville’ (Leo Club, 1984) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755907712236-CK8XV0IO3RFCMXCW6L1Y/Margaret+Thursby+IMG_0740.jpg Stories - The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755907720543-GK4I66B4QCJPZDAZ3UJI/Elgin+St+flood+IMG_0741.jpg Stories - The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4758711e-0f19-466b-ac4e-6d50bf9fc3e7/Moving+house+IMG_0742.jpg Stories - The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’ - Make it stand out A Maitland house being moved in 1955 Notice men on the roof ready to raise power lines (Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755908200496-FKT5E96J08RTBAGFP5L4/36224992190_c54d68c75d_c.jpg Stories - The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755930773627-4E26549H8TE97K5XCQPD/36452607312_bf0c01f1fc_c.jpg Stories - The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755930775830-2J3RCULIZ1ROJWIQPQVL/35786602514_ac5b31e760_c.jpg Stories - The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’ https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/floods-bigger-than-the-1955-flood monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e932b712-6226-41eb-9219-c090cc9b55a7/Dry+Island+IMG_7840.jpg Stories - Floods bigger than the 1955 flood? - Make it stand out The ‘dry island’ of central Maitland in 1955: this area was inundated long ago and will be again at some unknown time in the future. (detail from a Maitland City Council map) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a740574e-1584-4e7b-b8b6-8cee5cd6e93e/Flood+gaugeIMG_7841.jpg Stories - Floods bigger than the 1955 flood? - The flood gauge next to the Belmore Bridge. The gauge measures floods reaching up to 12 metres, about the level reached in 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755847666602-24TSJ76I1L1SPRKDV8DR/two+percent+flood.jpg Stories - Floods bigger than the 1955 flood? - 2% (50-year flood) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755847773680-VEF10AXL3UUIS11OBCAE/One+percent+flood.jpg Stories - Floods bigger than the 1955 flood? - 1% (100-year flood) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755847828179-3GJG7TB06KKO3O1YW1V6/0.5+per+cent+flood.jpg Stories - Floods bigger than the 1955 flood? - 0.5% (200-year) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755848064767-ECOG6AR36GYE6KPX9IEB/Picture5.jpg Stories - Floods bigger than the 1955 flood? - 0.2% (500-year) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/origins-and-development-of-the-ambulance-service-in-maitland monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/de75ee32-95bb-4286-b699-369b84308ad1/Station+1920s.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland - Make it stand out The original Maitland Ambulance station building on the High St-Albert St corner with the Buick six vehicles, about 1924. Supt H Guy and TJ Martin (Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755499919225-BFWCLH8B02WYELIV8R4Q/12245358224_6cd3026170_c.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755499922711-E8L2VMQG5SNGDS1OAMN0/9496326387_3799033f71_c.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/0be686e2-96bb-4e04-9d3b-0a3ff84b3b0a/12244649053_705c2b5faa_c.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland - Make it stand out The new Ambulance Station at 285 High St, about 1929 Reproduced on the front cover of the 7th Annual Report and Financial Statement for the Maitland Ambulance Service. (Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755500621840-C12M0MZHUS0LZM1EA37I/40465521791_02803fdc08_c.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755500625032-4WSZY1AI9H3HB26M5PQA/9398819114_11aea522f5_c.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755500628036-LSW7DFN87H6U3Y2JMCJ1/12245096683_23b9b261ac_c.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/db6163ed-5a28-43ae-a94b-53e5ddcffd08/Braddon.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland - Henry Braddon, 1918 (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e8fa78d3-85d1-440d-83a0-8991befd9378/Souvenir+booklet.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland - Make it stand out Front page of the Back to Maitland booklet For more details visit Val Rudkin, ‘Back to Maitland 1925’, Maitland: Our Place, Our Stories, 19 April 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/8c48801c-46ff-42f1-b4c0-ede100028c18/12243737164_71a78e74a7_c.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland - Make it stand out Rutherford Ambulance Station, November 1973 (Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9f9c7c36-cb5e-412f-ab4c-7c977f217ce0/HARA.jpg Stories - Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland - The Hazardous Area Rescue Ambulance (NSW Ambulance) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitlands-loss-of-the-regional-capital-role monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5dcd21d6-3012-47dc-9828-2671b1fcddd7/David+Cohen.jpg Stories - Maitland’s loss of the regional capital role - Make it stand out David Cohen & Co building, early 1900s (John Turner Collection, University of Newcastle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f63ab179-8ad7-4c74-9ae5-d838fc85f0e2/BHP.jpg Stories - Maitland’s loss of the regional capital role - The BHP steelworks at Carrington: it made Newcastle an industrial power and fuelled its growth. (Keith Greenhaigh) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitland-hub-of-the-hunter monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1e4c70c5-9b64-42f0-8035-b035775a062e/IMG_0737.jpg Stories - Maitland: ‘Hub of the Hunter’ and ‘Capital of the North’ in the mid-1800s - Make it stand out A list of the Maitland Mercury’s agents, 7 January 1852. (Maitland Mercury, 7 January 1852, p1) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d720018b-7636-47f7-9937-506efb4d5b73/Picture1.jpg Stories - Maitland: ‘Hub of the Hunter’ and ‘Capital of the North’ in the mid-1800s - Make it stand out EP Capper & Sons, West Maitland, symbol of Maitland’s commercial power before 1890 (Sydney Illustrated News, 1878) (John Turner slide collection, University of Newcastle Living Histories) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/a-dignitarys-death-and-funeral-1893 monthly 0.5 2025-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/98ff551f-b8d7-461b-a4df-84ba4ed9a142/Portrait+-+Sydney+Mail.jpg Stories - A dignitary’s death and funeral, 1893 - Portrait of Richard Young published in The Sydney Mail, 16 September 1893, p595. The illustration accompanies a lengthy article about Young. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/92218c61-bc53-49c2-ab86-fbbfff558be6/Portrait+Pic+Maitland.jpg Stories - A dignitary’s death and funeral, 1893 - Portrait of Richard Young in his mayoral robes (Picture Maitland) When this portrait was digitised by Maitland Library and shared online, it was listed as ‘identity unknown’. Carmel McDougall saw the photo, compared it to the illustration in the Sydney Mail (see above) and suggested that it is a portrait of Richard Young. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/69470ce9-f195-4a94-8a07-0810d3a7b654/IMG_0738.jpg Stories - A dignitary’s death and funeral, 1893 - Make it stand out A portion of the Mercury’s report on Young’s death. (Maitland Mercury, 5 September 1893, p4) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/71bf4ed8-a28d-4c30-aa42-b26512146026/MM+1893-09-7+p7+excerpt.jpg Stories - A dignitary’s death and funeral, 1893 - Make it stand out Excerpt from the lengthy article describing the funeral in the Maitland Mercury, 7 September 1893, p7. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/b76a0ad9-c292-4223-9189-f1d3f230acb0/MM+1894-05-24+p2.jpg Stories - A dignitary’s death and funeral, 1893 - Make it stand out Excerpt from the Maitland Mercury article. (Maitland Mercury, 24 May 1894, p2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/60983200-3da5-422b-8665-60d7ebf0a8f9/Memorial.jpg Stories - A dignitary’s death and funeral, 1893 - Make it stand out The memorial to Richard Young in Maitland Park, fashioned from local bricks and Ravensfield sandstone. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/john-gillies monthly 0.5 2025-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/463ead98-b8f2-4215-92b8-6fcafa815617/John+Gillis+-+Maitland+collections.jpg Stories - John Gillies, mayor and MP - Portrait of John Gillies (Maitland Libraries LIB2024.012) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a200ceed-dfe0-4204-99f8-13a1204193e2/Mercury+building.jpg Stories - John Gillies, mayor and MP - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury building (Maitland Mercury) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/2ec7a7a2-0cd4-4ad6-8bed-0a3f697dd402/Floating+baths.jpg Stories - John Gillies, mayor and MP - West Maitland floating baths as depicted in The Illustrated Sydney News, 8 August 1889. (Reproduced in Maitland and District Historical Society Bulletin, 23/1, Feb 2016, front cover) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/da3ffc06-c11a-453b-b433-01ece2a08584/Tech+College.jpg Stories - John Gillies, mayor and MP - Make it stand out Maitland Technical College (Athel D’Ombrain Collection, University of Newcastle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755135955047-V9AHBPOTCEI9JX9PB2A1/1904%2BSouvenir%2B1.jpg Stories - John Gillies, mayor and MP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755136356652-NAFCPENXIGJQMMWW1KFR/1904%252BSouvenir%252B2.jpg Stories - John Gillies, mayor and MP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755152069557-ZPI3MDFOSK6QKS7KIH5M/Facebook%252Bgates.jpg Stories - John Gillies, mayor and MP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1755060365600-RGLD6NH1AF6FGYEEV4N7/Monument%25252BAustralia%25252B-%25252Bgates.jpg Stories - John Gillies, mayor and MP https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/dr-r-j-pierce monthly 0.5 2025-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/dd6b6c6e-4e82-45ee-9cc7-b16d00434467/Pierce+Portrait.jpg Stories - Dr R J Pierce, loved nineteenth century medico - Portrait of Dr R J Pierce by Morris Moss albumen print, paint (Maitland Libraries LIB2024.025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/88bc0112-1500-4850-9fa3-261b76efeca7/Picture1.jpg Stories - Dr R J Pierce, loved nineteenth century medico - Dr Robert Pierce (Wikitree) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/852b736d-d776-4691-a7e7-3e1149f1ccc7/Picture2.jpg Stories - Dr R J Pierce, loved nineteenth century medico - Make it stand out The Pierce Memorial fountain (front right)in its original location at the Mercury corner (K Magor collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1754877906676-NB0W0OWTCLT0ZI1JXKL8/28670151952_dcc8802e1c_w.jpg Stories - Dr R J Pierce, loved nineteenth century medico - 1908 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1754878288033-WYZN3RWAXDTG35XCFH3H/9498883616_0b9310115e_w.jpg Stories - Dr R J Pierce, loved nineteenth century medico - c1909 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1754877993542-T03D129NJE86WZBWB3X3/26029807196_6d0df4e824_w.jpg Stories - Dr R J Pierce, loved nineteenth century medico - 1922 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/27cd8d38-ba99-47de-8865-2aa63cda38c5/Fountain+plaque.jpg Stories - Dr R J Pierce, loved nineteenth century medico - Commemorative plaque that was attached to the fountain (Maitland Libraries Collection LIB2022.040) The plaque is the focus of a story posted to Museums and Galleries of NSW Storyplace website. Visit: Sign of Respect: Dr Pierce’s Memorial Plaque from Maitland’s Fountain, Storyplace, Museums and Galleries of NSW, 4 Nov 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1faaa4b9-2be0-4e69-bfad-f8b527a05550/Picture+3.jpg Stories - Dr R J Pierce, loved nineteenth century medico - Make it stand out The building that housed the Pierce Memorial Trained Nurses Home (Google Earth) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-cut-that-severed-the-horseshoe-bend-meander-in-1893 monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a367b344-3608-43be-9106-3683917b6228/The+Cut+Map+2a.jpg Stories - ‘The Cut’ that severed the Horseshoe Bend meander in 1893 - Make it stand out The location of the Cut (Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cac1432a-dce0-4f3d-ac0c-972e801fc60a/Athletics+Centre.jpg Stories - ‘The Cut’ that severed the Horseshoe Bend meander in 1893 - Make it stand out The Maitland Regional Athletics Centre (foreground) and Maitland Sports Ground today. (Maitland City Council). The trees mark the former riverbank of the Horseshoe Bend loop and the location of the first wharves of the former Port of Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/bf85f4e1-6988-4704-904b-496eda83c536/IMG_0732.jpg Stories - ‘The Cut’ that severed the Horseshoe Bend meander in 1893 - Make it stand out Phoenix Park, soaked and temporarily unproductive, after the 1955 flood (Ray McDermott) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/b287d0d8-1105-4b1b-b37a-c6230f44aedd/Mitigation+Scheme.jpg Stories - ‘The Cut’ that severed the Horseshoe Bend meander in 1893 - Make it stand out The levees and spillways of the modern flood mitigation scheme (Department of Public Works) The scheme has not had the deleterious impacts of ‘The Cut’. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitland-circa-1830 monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e73fc727-f7ee-4635-92ca-47a302a1b10c/Dawn+in+the+valley+2.jpg Stories - Maitland, circa 1830 - The cover of Allan Wood, Dawn in the Valley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/28031bca-34c4-42cd-ae7a-3172ff1f6471/Rose+Inn+site.jpg Stories - Maitland, circa 1830 - Buildings and businesses next to the river at the site of the wharves, 1829 (Peter F Smith, 2023, p286) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/41e5e811-5f59-48cf-8c50-949a57267154/IMG_7796.jpg Stories - Maitland, circa 1830 - Make it stand out Land granted by 1825, Hunter Valley (NSW State Archives: NRS 13859 [SZ550] W.633 J Abbott, Wallis Plains – Survey of O’Donnell’s 33 acres with the adjoining buildings, Dec 1829 (detail). NSW State Archives: NRS 13859 [SZ550] W.633.) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/a-village-on-the-river-horseshoe-bend monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4b02f70e-6307-4f46-becf-21e0cccebb6c/27688012369_9232b3d89e_k+-+Copy.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend - Make it stand out Map, Parish of Maitland, March 1885 - detail showing Horseshoe Bend contained by the Hunter River. (Maitland City Council) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1753067739230-OIJ9RP40VT76J2PUEQ9T/George%2BMoore.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend - George Moore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1753067330701-9MHE7A2GM7KGNOL180X2/George+Moore+house+1.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend - 'Outward Cottage', 16 Robins St https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1753067656088-WJKCFMRCNGTD63JK86OK/George%2BMoore%2Bhouse%2B2.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend - 'Amphill Villa' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6a37d201-205e-4053-bf05-16934b5309ac/Port+Maitland+Inn+-+Copy.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend - Port Maitland Inn, Plaistowe St, Horseshoe Bend, 1894 Port Maitland Inn, Plaistowe St, Horseshoe Bend, 1894 - one of the two pubs in Horseshoe Bend (HF Boyle collection, reproduced in Hunter, 2001, p 14) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/aaf1d668-9cb7-4776-94de-2c0e3896ad7f/HB+Infants+school+1914.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend - Horseshoe Bend Infants School, 1914 Horseshoe Bend Infants School, 1914 (source unknown) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/447fba17-20a9-4a26-a704-3e4e563f7cfc/Irishtown+map.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend - Make it stand out Map of part of Horseshoe Bend and Irish Town (Lawrence Henderson, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1752998045780-GDC6FBPHWDM12TU8KIIO/HB+Medal.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend - Horseshoe Bend medal (Harrower collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1752998048601-Z4OLIF0CI1V4SMVVN31Y/HB+Honour+Roll.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend - Horseshoe Bend Infants' School Honour Roll 1914-1918 31 names are listed, 13 killed in action (Monument Australia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1753066004671-LPRYSBFL1S8Y4Y6ZA24K/9596635602_8139d9f958_c.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1753065978915-7IBU6P49NMCOHB0RDR0G/Volunteer%2BHotel.jpg Stories - A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-glenbawn-dam-rumour monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/43c48045-523a-4d4b-bf6b-5ee0f77bdedb/Glenbawn+Dam+panorama.jpg Stories - The Glenbawn Dam rumour and the 1955 flood - Make it stand out Panorama of the Glenbawn Dam site, February 1955 (Scone Advocate, 1 June 1956, courtesy Muswellbrook Chronicle/Hunter Valley News) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/47a8bdb8-eeb8-4d99-b053-b42be1dc97f2/Andy+Burg.jpg Stories - The Glenbawn Dam rumour and the 1955 flood - Andrew Burg (Peter Bogan Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/da0d1569-6630-490e-98a5-8aac2cc8d9e4/Isohyets+Hunter+flood.jpg Stories - The Glenbawn Dam rumour and the 1955 flood - Make it stand out Rainfall isohyets, 1955 flood, showing the amount of rain over the catchments of the Hunter River and the NSW tributaries of the Darling River (Bureau of Meteorology) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c3a03ad4-93bd-4ca4-8638-d9ef387bb370/IMG_7814.jpg Stories - The Glenbawn Dam rumour and the 1955 flood - A forensics expert, Neil Raymond, examines the breach in the Oakhampton Road in 2007 (Maitland Mercury) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/electric-telegraph-comes-to-maitland monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e9c8a013-87d8-42a7-8c6d-6ef0a49abf96/Picture1.jpg Stories - The electric telegraph comes to Maitland - The Cooke and Wheatstone 1837 five-wire needle telegraph (Science Museum Group 1876-1272) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/0ed4dbb2-9174-462e-b348-5773a4104c08/Picture2.jpg Stories - The electric telegraph comes to Maitland - A Morse Key sends out a series of dots and dashes (Morse Code) representing letters and numbers (RadioWorld) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/050535ee-e030-4faa-8e23-04b86ad056a1/Picture3.jpg Stories - The electric telegraph comes to Maitland - The Henley double-needle magneto-electric telegraph instrument as used in Maitland. The outer wooden case has been removed, showing the inner workings (Science Museum Group 1876-1285) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9bd0e02c-5d3a-4ce5-8d35-36f3ae6ae551/Picture4.jpg Stories - The electric telegraph comes to Maitland - Overland Telegraph Station office, Tennant Creek Overland Telegraph Station Office, Tennant Creek (Lawrie Henderson) The telegraph station, residence and outbuildings, built of local stone, have been preserved as part of the Tennent Creek Telegraph Station Historic Reserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/df6d8506-a7b2-4547-84fe-75bbe06f688f/Picture5.jpg Stories - The electric telegraph comes to Maitland - Make it stand out West Maitland Post Office, corner High St and Bourke St, about 1890 (telegramsaustralia.com) Note the telegraph pole on the right, with many crosstrees each carrying telegraph wires https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/8a4c41b3-9b60-474a-813b-f1b554c7c3e0/Picture6.jpg Stories - The electric telegraph comes to Maitland - On the 23 August, 2022, Australia Post issued a stamp to commemorate 150 years of The Overland Telegraph (Australia Post Collectibles) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/those-magnificent-men-and-their-cycling-machines monthly 0.5 2025-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a2747941-9e21-4887-875c-931bb067a887/Picture1.jpg Stories - Those magnificent men and their cycling machines - Make it stand out A cyclist, about 1900 (Photographer: William Henry Weston) (Maitland Library Collection) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-shortening-of-the-lower-hunter-river monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5caab369-66cc-4420-954a-c4af47df61a4/Irishtown+map.jpg Stories - The shortening of the lower Hunter River - Make it stand out The location of Irish Town (Lawrie Henderson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/ce6d6089-ab73-4c20-84f8-3efc836b0ec4/IMG_7801.jpg Stories - The shortening of the lower Hunter River - Make it stand out Work being done to reduce steepness of the river bank, central Maitland, 1962 (Michael Clarke) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f1b3b0ae-2fe5-423c-832c-b01967bc1854/The+Cut+Map+2a.jpg Stories - The shortening of the lower Hunter River - Make it stand out Map showing the Cut from Horseshoe Bend to Pitnacree: towards top on right hand side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5c9360ba-606e-4bc1-bd33-e4827b9029a5/Mps.jpg Stories - The shortening of the lower Hunter River - Make it stand out The changing course of the Hunter River, 1860-1964 (NSW Department of Public Works) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/helping-hands-from-outside-maitland-the-1955-flood monthly 0.5 2025-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cc625466-efc8-47d6-8b37-11ece0891edb/Dave+Russell+photos+-+Copy.jpeg Stories - Helping hands from outside Maitland: the 1955 flood - David Russell, aircraftsman (David Russell collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/752b17d3-fbf4-487d-972c-027aa6452d84/2965036013_c91ed19be7_o.jpg Stories - Helping hands from outside Maitland: the 1955 flood - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/bc7a999e-839a-4707-bf48-221de08385e8/Dave+Russell+photos.jpeg Stories - Helping hands from outside Maitland: the 1955 flood - David Russell in recent times (David Russell collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d344b39d-fc0a-4339-b330-9f0aa04b2f25/IMG_7775.jpg Stories - Helping hands from outside Maitland: the 1955 flood - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/john-mclauchlin-and-drowning-in-floods monthly 0.5 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1750913929092-R3PJXLGK4IMK0DJD1BR5/Picture3.jpg Stories - John McLauchlin and drowning in floods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1750915410589-BQ1ZHTF87FX3TIBU99LS/267962-max.jpg Stories - John McLauchlin and drowning in floods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1750925153054-5CMEFVDUMYPO1WU48Y43/9593726975_f86ef0b081_o.jpg Stories - John McLauchlin and drowning in floods https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/re-naming-of-maitlands-public-high-schools-in-1987-and-1990 monthly 0.5 2025-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/ec4acf7a-edae-4474-92a5-92bf22641820/Picture2.jpg Stories - Re-naming of Maitland’s public high schools in 1987 and 1990 - Rodney Cavalier (Parliament of NSW) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/eeec28ef-ba1e-4127-9b52-f2ef8b3bd3e4/Herbert_Vere_Evatt_1948.jpg Stories - Re-naming of Maitland’s public high schools in 1987 and 1990 - HV (‘Doc’) Evatt in 1948 (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1750893283149-G9SVJ34FK1BGY40HIG39/Picture3.jpg Stories - Re-naming of Maitland’s public high schools in 1987 and 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cc72d30f-8a36-4b9d-8fb1-c43930a500b0/Picture4.jpg Stories - Re-naming of Maitland’s public high schools in 1987 and 1990 - Make it stand out (Maitland Mercury) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/thomas-strode-and-the-ill-fated-hunter-river-gazette monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3da15c78-9c44-4434-9577-af0f7106cd6f/Picture+3.jpg Stories - Thomas Strode and the ill-fated Hunter River Gazette - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d0798083-ed1e-4563-8c3e-afc52806c621/Picture1.jpg Stories - Thomas Strode and the ill-fated Hunter River Gazette - ‘The Blacks’, Hunter River Gazette, 22 January 1842 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/07e44d97-fa27-4317-9fdd-0cf2628d5159/Picture+2.jpg Stories - Thomas Strode and the ill-fated Hunter River Gazette - T F Chuck (photographer), Thomas Strode, 1872 (State Library of Victoria) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/alexander-mcdonald monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/57614de5-c9fa-4edf-a654-8904ce17af86/Picture1.jpg Stories - Alexander (Sandy) McDonald - Alexander McDonald (Maitland City Council) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c500c55f-af7f-4a75-9968-53ff99ceebd9/IMG_7766.jpg Stories - Alexander (Sandy) McDonald - Make it stand out The Barrington Tops National Park, with streams emanating from the Tops (Dulcie Hartley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d6606938-f870-4bf9-97f1-e56cb4447c20/Picture+2.jpg Stories - Alexander (Sandy) McDonald - Mansfield House (Newcastle Weekly) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/james-wallis monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/b8bedba8-fc94-4286-8a4f-76850999dff4/Picture+1.jpg Stories - James Wallis - James Wallis (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/08681ab5-d79f-4746-af3a-4e143226f55a/146239-max.jfif Stories - James Wallis - Make it stand out Plate 7 Black Swans from Captain James Wallis - Historical Account, 1821 (Hunter Living Histories) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/sewering-maitland monthly 0.5 2025-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/36b121da-1ca2-4756-8806-c5fadf7a52cc/Picture1.jpg Stories - Sewering Maitland - A pan or ‘dunny can’, about 1940s (Museums Victoria) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/091ff01a-57ba-477f-856c-d80f02689bd1/Picture2.jpg Stories - Sewering Maitland - Make it stand out Part of the waste water treatment works outside Morpeth (Hunter Water) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/walka-water-works monthly 0.5 2025-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e5376261-43ac-479d-ae3e-6f3bddfbfdca/Council+1.jpg Stories - Walka Water Works - Make it stand out Original plan showing the scheme from William Clark’s report to the NSW Government, 1877 (Maitland City Council) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1749942663241-RN2TE1J17AM3AEK3KUOQ/Council+3walka_pumphouse_courtesy_of_goulburn_waterworks.jpg Stories - Walka Water Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1749943342456-H5T3L31JL9VVW6AH667H/Council%2B2%2Bthe_boilers_at_walka_water_works_c_1898.jpg Stories - Walka Water Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/ccd65b9a-e96d-4e54-966d-f234fa5da5a0/ramboll+1.jpg Stories - Walka Water Works - Make it stand out Walka Water Works and Walka Lake from the air (Maitland City Council reproduced by Ramboll) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/origin-and-evolution-of-maitland-ses monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a9cb39cd-5cef-4241-9867-c512768abd98/IMG_7768.jpg Stories - Origin and evolution of Maitland SES - The original badge of the Civil Defence Organization, adopted in 1956 (Civil Defence Organisation and State Emergency Services) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d3e32c57-c5ae-4c3a-9dd0-c5c403305280/Ascot.jpg Stories - Origin and evolution of Maitland SES - Make it stand out The former Ascot Theatre in Morpeth, once the Maitland SES headquarters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e1c32606-4959-425c-a81b-013032ff3e98/IMG_7769.jpg Stories - Origin and evolution of Maitland SES - Make it stand out The sandbagged floodgate immediately west of Maitland Station, 2007, keeping water out of the station and other low-lying areas (Maitland Mercury) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/651b8d08-8b0b-4a22-be15-a077fee05d90/IMG_7770.jpg Stories - Origin and evolution of Maitland SES - Make it stand out Today’s Maitland City SES headquarters building in Telarah. (Peter Smith) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/barrington-tops monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/0cf89797-8241-40d9-aceb-2e515accc85a/Picture1.jpg Stories - Barrington Tops, development and conservation on Maitland’s edge - Make it stand out Barrington Tops: rugged country (Getty Images) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/15296309-cabc-4e4c-8a26-277814840f2f/Picture+3+Dungog+Chronicle.jpg Stories - Barrington Tops, development and conservation on Maitland’s edge - A Pender and Foster sawmill in the Upper Allyn A Pender and Foster sawmill in the Upper Allyn (Doug Brown) (reproduced in Dungog Chronicle, 3 Nov 2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a924a61d-9512-4c1f-bbf4-fd8f26b5f860/Barrington+Guest+House.jpg Stories - Barrington Tops, development and conservation on Maitland’s edge - Barrington Guest House, 1935 (Mike Scanlon collection) (reproduced in Newcastle Herald, 10 June 2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f273e3c5-621d-442a-b1c1-95ac6cf905f7/Picture2.jpg Stories - Barrington Tops, development and conservation on Maitland’s edge - Make it stand out A Barrington Tops vista (Taras Vyshnya) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/0a806450-e7be-4cc2-8de8-dd84acb48982/Pictre+4+IMG_7766.jpg Stories - Barrington Tops, development and conservation on Maitland’s edge - Make it stand out The Barrington Tops National Park in 1988, streams radiating in all directions. (Dulcie Hartley) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/west-maitland-fire-brigade monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f507da85-f08a-4914-bd1c-5420b6fbe2e3/Maitland_Fire_Station_on_Church_St_in_Maitland.jpg Stories - West Maitland Fire Brigade - The fire station at 14 Church St, Maitland, 2018 (Wikimedia Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/dc01747a-e567-4c72-898d-1489fe24b6fa/Boyce+1.jpeg Stories - West Maitland Fire Brigade - Make it stand out Maitland Fire Brigade members, pre-1910 (Fire & Rescue NSW, Historical Photograph Collection, located at Museum of Fire, Penrith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/eb3f77ef-7a36-497a-b89a-8a4f335e1eef/Boyce+4.jpeg Stories - West Maitland Fire Brigade - NSW Fire Brigade Plan showing the High St fire station and site, 1916 NSW Fire Brigade plan showing the High Street fire station and site, 1916 The plan is attached to Thomas Gorman to Nicholas Sparkes, memorandum, 2 June 1916, Fire & Rescue NSW, Historical Archives, Box 266, located at the Museum of Fire, Penrith NSW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748763760167-GX2HZPVAXXG4KSX0T9V8/Boyce+2.jpeg Stories - West Maitland Fire Brigade - 1914 Printed in the Mayor’s Report 1914. (Maitland City Library Colleciton) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748764058046-T3C7428UV84E1DBNTQK6/Boyce%252B7.jpg Stories - West Maitland Fire Brigade (Fire & Rescue NSW, Historical Photograph Collection, located at Museum of Fire, Penrith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6b937cb2-e733-49de-851a-efc97c21360a/Boyce+11.jpeg Stories - West Maitland Fire Brigade - Make it stand out Surveyor’s plan showing the irregular shape of the site and the configuration of the buildings, 1924 (Fire & Rescue NSW, Historical Archive, Box 266, located at Museum of Fire, Penrith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/37df63fc-342a-43c6-8153-643e0e70edf2/Boyce+12.jpeg Stories - West Maitland Fire Brigade - Make it stand out Deposited Plan (DP 232393, 22 May 1969), NSW Dept of Lands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e9637f83-8216-43fd-9b7e-4fcdcbde2700/Boyce+3.jpeg Stories - West Maitland Fire Brigade - Make it stand out Floor plan of Church Street station (Board of Fire Commissioners of NSW, ‘Land and Station Registers’, book 1, p. 58, original located at Fire and Rescue NSW Information Management.) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/cumberland-hall monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d54bcac6-ea18-494d-860d-2598ef47d922/Picture+1a.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748242217505-UCW9Z0C8IBTND24MYY96/Picture2.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Cumberland Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748242220808-SAHJPINPTAURVE4Y9MTZ/Picture3.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Front garden, looking towards Morpeth Rd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748242225661-5VHCWV7TA4FCAETXMBUT/Picture4.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Cumberland Hall from the west https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/2dfaef6f-6271-4a66-b415-c5418936783f/Picture5.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748243421465-C4Q7DCC7CUSRK9YWGMRU/Picture6.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Cumberland Hall - Cumberland St entrance, about 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748243274551-QIU9JOU4X3C5H6ZI8VUU/Picture7.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Northern Stores https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748243277397-TN2GO9LOQCI4ZRI2RSRG/Picture8.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Bank of Australasia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748243555107-R0O2GB9PSP12QN35TC7M/Picture9.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748243557116-RQRBD0I2CASPLGTXDPV7/Picture10.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748243559628-LEB8SB9VJ1HTADA7AW7G/Picture11.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a9b1ad49-7a79-4843-a117-be546397fef5/Picture12.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cc300d8f-98cf-4bdd-ad29-39737ca6f5bd/Picture13.jpg Stories - Cumberland Hall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/caroline-chisholm monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3d5d250f-23e2-4bfb-a940-53be9a737f68/Hayter+portrait.jpg Stories - Caroline Chisholm, humanitarian and philanthropist - Portrait of Caroline Chisholm, Thomas Fairland lithograph from painting by Angelo Collen Hayter, 1852. (National Library of Australia) The original oil painting is in the State Library of NSW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748236701193-OUGCUKU1C7KQYFUMNXKP/6304324682_2852747705_o.jpg.jpg Stories - Caroline Chisholm, humanitarian and philanthropist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1748236454344-Y146S40YKHE2VMYC6ZUX/6304324898_1caa389881_o.jpg.jpg Stories - Caroline Chisholm, humanitarian and philanthropist - 1977 Athol D’Ombrain photograph (University of Newcastle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/580f5f7d-850c-42f6-972b-ec3056c7a25f/500_-_Caroline_Chisholm_Cottage_%285045654b4%29.jpg Stories - Caroline Chisholm, humanitarian and philanthropist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/east-maitland-a-century-ago monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e61572db-096e-4829-885d-a356a65210f5/Arthur+Gow.jpg Stories - East Maitland, a century ago - Arthur Gow (Bill Gow Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3734a0e3-96d3-48ca-8a46-d69e5639c75f/Tram+East+Maitland.jpg Stories - East Maitland, a century ago - A tram in East Maitland (Ken Magor collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/52e7beb2-4719-43f6-bb68-25dea3a9862e/Chadlington+House.jpg Stories - East Maitland, a century ago - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a6318ff0-7c1a-46ec-ae55-f952b1f2d453/Melbourne+St.jpg Stories - East Maitland, a century ago - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/97342419-a38b-412f-8d23-07c8ec86df77/Pender+and+Foster.jpg Stories - East Maitland, a century ago - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1747879542944-VX33IQ0MOVU75NDXV31M/E%2BMaitland%2BCourthouse%2Bc1930.jpg Stories - East Maitland, a century ago - East Maitland Courthouse, c1930 (Maitland CIty Library Collection, available on Flickr) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1747879329784-CO79F8JZ0QJ1R6A2KPEP/Maitland+Gaol.jpg Stories - East Maitland, a century ago - Maitland Gaol entrance, undated Maitland Mercury, 25 May 2016 https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-bolwarra-embankment-committee monthly 0.5 2025-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d60937c9-7e4e-4f52-bda1-d18a18b800dd/1+Bolwarra+Embankment+Committee+1+Illustration.jpg Stories - The Bolwarra Embankment Committee - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1747691721734-3PINR36V0W42GW7W7P5S/2+IMG_20220719_0003.jpg Stories - The Bolwarra Embankment Committee Men and boys augmenting the Bolwarra embankment with sandbags at McKimms Corner, 1962: Harold McKimm, Robert Worboys (rear view), Walter Worboys, Ross Muirhead and Bruce Worboys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1747691744136-OJTCLJ6XQR021DRIWK4U/3+Bolwarra+Embankment+Committee+2+Illustration.jpg Stories - The Bolwarra Embankment Committee - Post-flood repair work on a levee, early 1950s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c0041772-937a-4bcb-8d30-f7738bc5f694/4+IMG_20220719_0002.jpg Stories - The Bolwarra Embankment Committee - Walter Worboys, 1983 (Robert Worboys Collection) Walter Worboys was a stalwart of the Bolwarra Embankment Committee for many years. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-origins-of-flood-mitigation-in-the-maitland-area monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7ba7e385-4b7e-468a-b8ab-117c37bbc7fc/Image.jpg Stories - The origins of flood mitigation in the Maitland area - Part of an old embankment, built by the Bolwarra Embankment Committee on the former Pig Run loop next to Glenarvon Rd. It was breached in the late 1870s and not rebuilt: it had become irrelevant because the river had changed its course and cut the meander off. The former channel in this location is still visible but most of the old levee has been bulldozed. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-falls monthly 0.5 2025-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/2c368131-adec-434f-a73c-6634ab5647f1/The+Fall+Location+smaller+version.png Stories - The Falls: first river crossing point at Maitland The location of The Falls The Hunter River is (1); the site of the ford is (2); The Falls Hotel is (6) (Brian Walsh and Cameron Archer, Maitland On the Hunter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cf2eb4d7-b131-48fb-a65d-fcaaa94ed17c/The+Fall+Lodge+smaller+version.png Stories - The Falls: first river crossing point at Maitland - The Falls Lodge The building which was once The Falls Lodge, Sempill St. People intending to cross the river at The Falls often stayed here (Flickr) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/trolling monthly 0.5 2025-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c32b618e-f7bf-4de9-b1c7-293156eec6f8/Screenshot+2023-12-13+134040.png Stories - Trolling, 1890s-style in the Maitland Mercury - Make it stand out The ‘cat-o-nine tails’, favoured instrument for flogging in Maitland Gaol in the 1800s (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7c13d7a7-6c75-431b-a8f8-6f77e5729c64/maitland+gaol.png Stories - Trolling, 1890s-style in the Maitland Mercury - Make it stand out The entrance to Maitland Gaol, where 16 men were hanged and many more flogged (Picture Maitland) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/stan-dunkley-maitlands-town-clerk-1949-1966 monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/56da47fd-eb88-4893-ac82-2bac5a86948e/Picture1.jpg Stories - Stan Dunkley, Maitland’s Town Clerk, 1949-1966 - Stan Dunkley, early in his time as Town Clerk of the City of Maitland (Dunkley collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/54f42d8e-a616-4509-9fe7-ca26a2f8d1ea/IMG_7717.jpg Stories - Stan Dunkley, Maitland’s Town Clerk, 1949-1966 - The base station of the Hunter Valley Flood Warning Net, located in the Maitland Town Hall and the point of reception for flood information from higher up the valley (Jim Lucey, digitised by David Sciffer) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/013f6367-9dfe-455d-a5bb-8771302fe22c/Picture2.jpg Stories - Stan Dunkley, Maitland’s Town Clerk, 1949-1966 - Graham Dunkley, May of Maitland 1991 (Dunkley collection) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-gallery-site monthly 0.5 2023-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9daa8bda-9f2b-440f-ba89-c0aa93b40ee5/MRAG.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High St, Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f62d3443-cfeb-4ccc-ba91-b30ce159e931/Turner+p+6-+1840+map.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out A map of West Maitland in about 1840 showing some of the businesses on and near the site (marked in red) now occupied by the Maitland Regional Art Galllery. (Reproduced from Turner, The Rise of High Street, p 6) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697329000427-1JP0LHNMT8ATU4V6IH8M/1878+aerial+view.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Sydney Illustrated News, September 1878 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697329749451-MV9DU7D0H999XTXNFZBI/2103+aerial+view.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Google maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/15e1763f-140a-48dc-9cbb-766aaf014212/Site+plan+showing+portions.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out Site plan for the Maitland Regional Art Gallery showing the approximate boundaries of the four portions of land that, over time, were partially or wholly acquired for the former Technical College and consequently the Gallery. (Reproduced from Higginbotham, p5) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/43acc709-fe1b-4dae-901e-4e1d6c5ed242/1823+Map+of+Maitland.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out An 1823 map showing the Wallis Plains farms when first chartered. Patrick Maloney’s grant is number 11. The 1823 map is superimposed on a map showing land use today. (Reproduced from Hunter, Bound for Wallis Plains, p 21) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3ad09439-b0bf-49ab-878d-a7d2961c1d26/Site+plan+showing+portions.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Site plan of the Maitland Regional Art Gallery showing the approximate boundaries of the four portions of land. (Higginbotham, p 6) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/03c3bb47-c1b1-45f4-9c69-9e3aa28dc8d1/MM+1856-03-01+p+7.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 1 March 1856, p 7 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/73b5b9d3-4216-4d42-9957-9b3406d45822/1886+planB.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out 1886 plan showing the factory (indicated by the arrow) and workshop buildings. (Higginbotham, 2008. p 11) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697424812229-HPLVTH536CQ0GMDPLVC8/MM%2B1879-07-22%2Bp5.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Maitland Mercury, 22July 1879, p 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697415946289-766XGEJGME5W2F4D2RUT/MM+1882-04-29+p4.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Maitland Mercury, 29 April 1882, p 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697424687502-GOOETS8PBM87DEHCPA1T/MM+1888-01-31+p+3.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Maitland Mercury, 28 January 1888, p 7 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7640fa40-fc38-43c4-be97-306b2ecd2e8f/Coach+factory+building+1892.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out The coach factory building and site soon after it was acquired for use for the Technical College, 1892 (NSW State Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9e260c70-48a1-441a-8787-9a84a22e46e6/MM+1892-08-25+p5.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 25 August 1892, p5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d6641912-a8b7-4747-b9ea-ee9998b7e087/Heap32.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out (Reproduced from Heap, p 32) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d6ae1aab-3169-499f-bf77-cfb3d7403cdd/Site+plan+showing+portions.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Site plan of the Maitland Regional Art Gallery showing the approximate boundaries of the four portions of land. Site plan for the Maitland Regional Art Gallery showing the approximate boundaries of the four portions of land that, over time, were acquired for the Gallery (and former Technical College) site. (Reproduced from Higginbotham, p5) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697844991774-ESEQ05CCX9G488Q11NFP/MM+1845-11-15+p3.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Maitland Mercury, 15 November 1845, p 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697845287408-03M4PZGSCJ36BFDULC76/MM+1846-12-19+p1.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Maitland Mercury, 19 December 1846, p1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697845606414-6NKQ8P7T4VC0CJOXH00B/MM+1851-03-15+p3.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Maitland Mercury, 15 March 1851, p 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5f96f764-fadb-49a3-9141-52b128fb6967/MM+1865-06-24+p2.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 24 June 1865, p 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/63af34eb-9f40-4eb6-baf0-59c82378f9e5/Lipscombe+and+Cohen+about+1895+MCC.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out Lipscomb (front left of the photograph) and David Cohen buildings, about 1895 (Maitland CIty Council) The fenced area to the left of the Lipscombe building (and left bottom corner of the photograph) is the main Gallery site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f01c0599-66f0-4225-b130-8a417f26c696/High+St+1899+Hunter+Photobank.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out Lipscomb building (centre of the photograph with the varandah), about 1899 (Hunter Photobank) The vacant space to the left of the Lipscomb building is now the site of the Gallery. The buildings to the right of the Lipscomb building belonged to David Cohen and Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f8ca7934-f4a1-4757-a10a-92e7f2d0a8e0/Turner39+-+Copy.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out Lipscomb building (front left of the photograph) and environs, early twentieth century (Reproduced from Turner, p 39) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/24a1afc9-304a-479c-8fc3-9f43cbb04e86/MM+1916-06-29.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 29 May 1916, p 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f5a09d0a-f4da-44d3-88e6-178bc4defa18/Site+plan+showing+portions.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Site plan of the Maitland Regional Art Gallery showing the approximate boundaries of the four portions of land. Site plan for the Maitland Regional Art Gallery showing the approximate boundaries of the four portions of land that, over time, were acquired for the Gallery (and former Technical College) site. (Reproduced from Higginbotham, p5) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e526acc2-ad5a-4178-88b2-de6818b2d09e/MorpethMus01.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Make it stand out Carmody’s garage next to the Technical College building, during the 1949, 1952 or 1955 flood. (Morpeth Museum collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5fe829f1-fc7a-4365-a15b-3ee9beb66c43/Site+plan+showing+portions.jpg Stories - The Gallery site - Site plan of the Maitland Regional Art Gallery showing the approximate boundaries of the four portions of land. (Reproduced from Higginbotham, p5) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitland-scientific-society monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/fd0e5c41-2afa-47bb-aacc-00660b7c4545/1913+rule+book+cover.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Rules of the Maitland District Scientific and Historical Research Society (front cover), T Dimmock, 1913. (Maitland City Library) A digitised copy of the full booklet is available on the Collections Maitland website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c93d5706-aa96-471d-bb2a-4c0bfd11f89d/BURGES+James+C+from+family.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - James Clement Burges (1875-1917) A Vice President of the Maitland Scientific and Historical Research Society, Burges was the French master at Maitland Boys’ High School. He volunteered for service during the First World War and was killed in action at Passchendaele. (Image from Beyond 1914: University of Sydney and the Great War) (Obituary: Maitland Daily Mercury, 1 November 1917, p 4) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/43027236-a1a9-4ec3-bbfd-134e083ed109/Enright+W+J.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Walter John Enright (1874-1949) A member of the Maitland Scientific Society and President of the Maitland Scientific and Historical Research Society, Enright was a local solicitor, an amateur scientist and anthropologist. He served on the local council including a term as mayor, and also served a term as head of the Maitland Hospital Board. (Image from Enrights Solicitors) (Obituaries: Dungog Chronicle, 1 October 1949, p 1, and Raymond Terrace Examiner, 29 September 1949, p 4) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/06798720-518e-4d6e-bdce-5c9680f0f131/Filmer+Walter+Lake+Mac+Ref+23565.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Walter Drowley Filmer (1865-1944) Another founding member of the Maitland Scientific Society, Filmer was born in Maitland, was an early pioneer of x-rays, and an entomologist. (Image from Lake Macquarie History) (Obituary: Newcastle Morning Herald, 5 September 1944, p 4) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/2554ccf1-14a7-42bf-917d-64d7fc632172/Lamont+-+Copy.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Rev James Lamont (1844-1928) Lamont was a Scottish-born, University of London educated, Presbyterian minister who was in Maitland from 1883 to 1894 and was a founding member of the Maitland Scientific Society. A member of the prestigious Linnean Society, a botanist and researcher, his collection and library were largely destroyed in the 1893 flood. (Image from Australian National Herbarium) (Biographical details: Sydney Mail, 2 March 1895, p441) (Obituary: Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1928, p 13) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a80cdb06-f210-4927-9afb-0720242f5095/SLNSW+list+of+members.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Make it stand out A page from Maitland Scientific Society List of Members, 1887-1891 (State Library of NSW) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1696922938420-CM0L9VJASJW0R9590VMS/Topics+1.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1696922951364-373X0TJB0AXIYXW4L7QY/Topics+2.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1696922962657-OWNIKE2IQEYC2G16XC6Z/Topics+3.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697239849581-HDF4ABEQ8JDB6SIVSWAX/MM+1890-12-06.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Maitland Mercury, 6 December 1890, p 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697239898419-R5JTAGO061YGAK2A4N1Y/MM+1895-12-17.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Maitland Mercury, 17 December 1895, p 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6d3bf516-9336-4fdd-a4cb-626b2149bb08/MM+1888-02-18+p3.png Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Make it stand out Excerpt from the annual report published in Maitland Mercury, 18 February 1888, p 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/dacd5a0a-453b-4b90-91c6-c72b607a3352/NMH+1914-02-05+p6.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Make it stand out Excerpt from annual report published in Newcastle Morning Herald, 5 February 1914, p 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5909a94c-4d6e-496e-af9e-54705b2f6998/Conversazione+ticket.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Make it stand out Ticket for a Maitland Scientific Society Conversazione, April 1889 (University of Newcastle Cultural Collections) For a description of the items on display at this conversazione and the ways in which visitors engaged with the displays visit Maitland Mercury, 9 April 1889, p 4. For an account of the fourth conversazione visit Daily Telegraph, 11 March 1890, p 6. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7efbba0f-4b67-40b5-b559-bfc70e695f86/MM+1889-12-12+p6a.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Make it stand out Excerpt from the Society’s third annual report, Maitland Mercury, 5 December 1889, p6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/b9592540-8df6-46be-85c8-46bb5ef3a1c9/MM+1890-12-06+p4.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 6 December 1890. p 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/2776f60e-c281-4b2b-9507-952ad43f3576/DSC02757+-+Copy.JPG Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Former Masonic Building, 280 High St, Maitland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5cd2b1b7-20d9-4912-a207-debd104b788e/MM+1890-12-20+p8.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Make it stand out Opening sentences of the lengthy description of the contents and look of the collections on display at the opening of the Maitland Technological Museum on 17 December 1890 (Maitland Mercury, 20 December 1890. p 8) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697156969142-MMFCRNL02K83UM25GY8R/Technical%2BCollege%2B1910.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - Maitland Technical College, 1910 (Dept of Public Works Annual Report 1910) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1697157070031-WSJ2GRAYM4F8J505LB5R/1955%2Bflood.jpg Stories - Maitland Scientific Society - 1955 flood - technical college building is back centre (Maitland City Council Collection) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/macquaries-experiments-patersons-plains-and-wallis-plains monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4194bf4e-628f-45a7-8ad4-0232bd187dd5/Lachlan_macquarie.jpg Stories - Macquarie’s great experiments: Patersons Plains and Wallis Plains - Governor Lachlan Macquarie (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/29cc41e3-8642-4ca8-89f4-a555f0c11469/Patersons+Plains.jpg Stories - Macquarie’s great experiments: Patersons Plains and Wallis Plains - Make it stand out The holdings of Patersons Plains, 1812-1821 (today’s roads added) (Brian Walsh, Woodville Uncovered) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/61b31464-2780-4f35-bf96-815bda8ab1a4/Old+Banks.jpg Stories - Macquarie’s great experiments: Patersons Plains and Wallis Plains - Make it stand out The site of Old Banks today: Swan, Davis and Pell had holdings on the far side, Reynolds and Tucker on the near side. (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6be1b492-3ce0-4ba1-826e-b3dcd652e0e9/1823+Map+of+Maitland.jpg Stories - Macquarie’s great experiments: Patersons Plains and Wallis Plains - Make it stand out Henry Dangar’s 1823 map of Wallis Plains holdings superimposed on the modern street configuration. (Cynthia Hunter, Bound for Wallis Plains, p 21) The original holdings differed from those shown here and they had not been surveyed. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitland-remembers-passchendaele monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6f83b3a9-bb56-41c3-b58c-098d07c47a69/PasschendaleA4-handout-listofevents-v3.jpg Stories - Maitland remembers Passchendaele - Make it stand out Flyer advertising Maitland’s commemorative events in 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4aa77090-193b-4e2b-9644-6f08ab341426/Booklet+front+cover.jpg Stories - Maitland remembers Passchendaele - Make it stand out Cover of the booklet that introduces the exhibitions and provides a brief background on ‘Maitland’s Own’ and on the Battle of Passchendaele, including a map of the battlefield. There are also reproductions of a selection of the photographs used in the exhibitions and display. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/jack-bowden-pryor monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/616a91db-0e76-48ac-8800-c3df7d65e128/AWM_P11384.001.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Jack Bowden Pryor, about 1917 Jack Bowden Pryor, 1916 (Australian War Memorial P11384.001) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d7bceda8-d98b-4608-a2be-79ec7c61ccaf/IMG_1655.JPG Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Jack Pryor’s certificate for passing examinations for ‘Modelling ornaments’ at the West Maitland Technical College, March 1911 West Maitland Technical College Intermediate Certificate awarded to Jack Pryor for ‘Modelling ornament’, March 1911 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690347236272-66HZU0DPG85NJNYUQEE8/IMG_1658.JPG Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690347608298-W0DO2WHJ02RQ8R5GBKSL/IMG_1663.JPG Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a3204bfa-1cf5-4d1b-8e4a-e2b5752ab05c/MDM+1916-10-10+p4.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 10 October 1916 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/79f1ee08-4de4-4abe-8ad6-dc1f6519bfc9/MWM+1916-11-25+p11.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Make it stand out Description of wedding of Jack Pryor and Ella Mayo, Maitland Mercury, 25 November 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690414470233-9MNQ75LRM0V242JMZRZO/IMG_1653.JPG Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690414487146-SCZI8ZV82TU56CTC9GDB/IMG_1654.JPG Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690349098843-L79MIWLS59WLQ4957XGW/IMG_1664.JPG Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - At sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690349126282-NP6DRSUOZ7YA2OZIHBJW/IMG_1666+copy.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Lark Hill 17 June 1917 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690349143726-02CX3N5903VQHSEA556A/IMG_1667.JPG Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - 'somewhere in France', 29 July 1917 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3231ad00-91d9-486e-ad4b-eadc08dd3333/NAA+Pryor+2.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Make it stand out Jack’s service outlined in his AIF service file (AIF file of Jack Pryor, National Archives of Australia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a9646325-cca6-4973-9d96-cd01025fed1a/Conran+Red+X+file.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Make it stand out One of the eyewitness accounts collected by the Red Cross (Jack Pryor’s Red Cross Wounded and Missing File) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/94dd673d-6bec-444c-8b46-e0bba88b3855/MWM+1917-11-24+p8.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Make it stand out Maitland Weekly Mercury, 24 November 1917 Jack’s brother Ray survived the war and returned to Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6f0a9d43-5963-4bb1-ae0d-7d3f19d7d8c1/NAA_Pryor_59.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Make it stand out A poignant letter from Ella Pryor, Jack Pryor’s widow, seeking information and expressing disbelief, 12 December 1917 (AIF file of Jack Pryor, National Archives of Australia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5ceeb36f-225c-4f0c-a18e-f8c94bc6359d/NAA_Pryor_41.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Make it stand out Jack’s personal effects returned to his parents (AIF file of Jack Pryor, National Archives of Australia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690584779406-QCG206HVX1YXRT2YHTZR/IMG_1651b.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690354623796-H0BK9R7M1O8IN71DTHVB/IMG_1651a%29.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1690354654130-P3ZEL141KGPFSCR3TM1B/IMG_1652.JPG Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/287e2f65-7227-4fd8-a4b1-9fcea9acdfd4/MWM+1917-11-24+p8.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Make it stand out Maitland Weekly Mercury, 23 October 1920 One of the in memoriam and Honour Roll notices Jack’s parents and wife placed in the local paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1e817099-7ffd-484d-a2ef-dcd1db20842e/Reburied.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Make it stand out (AIF file of Jack Pryor, National Archives of Australia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c50aa314-cc30-4936-8500-756d98a4621a/Menin+Gate+2.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Jack’s gravestone in Ypres Town Cemetery Extension, Menin Gate (photograph: David Sciffer) At the base of the gravestone, hidden by the plants, is the inscription ‘Father in thy gracious keeping leave we now thy servant sleeping’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3a22942b-0953-4b8e-867a-d93d16d37904/Pryor+gravestone.jpg Stories - Jack Bowden Pryor - Gravestone of Benjamin and Marian Pryor, Rutherford Cemetery Section 3B, Plot 20 (Australian Cemeteries Index) Inscribed across the bottom: ‘Pte J B Pryor, aged 26 years, Menin Gate, France, 1914-1918’ https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/european-indigenous-relations monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/be21ac87-8635-4b48-81cb-60903dd2127f/George%2Band%2BRachel%2BMead.jpg Stories - Nineteenth century race relations: a sad story George and Rachel Mead, settlers on the Bolwarra Flats from 1848 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c807d930-4c0e-4f2f-b169-b9b0dfeac83d/The+Killing+Times.jpg Stories - Nineteenth century race relations: a sad story Map of the massacre sites (Guardian Australia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5be24892-2100-4046-a568-4f2085511860/Denny+Day.jpg Stories - Nineteenth century race relations: a sad story Edward Denny Day (Maitland Hospital Collection) Denny Day was the Maitland police magistrate who caught and prosecuted 11 Europeans for the killings at Myall Creek, near the Gwydir River. Seven were executed. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/hailstorms-in-nineteenth-century-maitland monthly 0.5 2023-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3cfc2bdf-5a59-494c-93d3-50d9fa489a20/To+be+acknowledged..png Stories - Hailstorms in nineteenth century Maitland - Make it stand out A lightning bolt. One of these killed William Mannell at Dunmore in January 1861. In November 2020, five people were injured by a single bolt of lightning at Pokolbin. (Photograph by Ireland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/78faf09f-f04c-451f-8071-48e85a29ac59/MM+1861-01-07+p4.jpg Stories - Hailstorms in nineteenth century Maitland - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 7 January 1861, p4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7f3512bc-0654-4055-98bd-e8e25365a6f5/hailstones.jpg Stories - Hailstorms in nineteenth century Maitland - Make it stand out A large hailstone. Hailstones the size of grapefruit have been recorded in New South Wales. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/names-of-early-maitland monthly 0.5 2022-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d2be28ed-e78d-401c-9edd-23fb28f3b7d5/SLNSW_FL3542506.jpg Stories - Names of early Maitland - Make it stand out Port Hunter and its branches, 1819. (State Library of NSW) (Reproduced in Hunter, 2012, pp 18-19) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/half-a-century-ago- monthly 0.5 2022-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e000d8f5-38e0-465d-841a-af97155ff7e8/MM+1893-10-14+p4.jpg Stories - Half a century ago … - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 14 October 1893, p4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4ab0698f-e73d-478c-8930-c9f2ef43a990/MM+1893-10-21+p++excerpt.jpg Stories - Half a century ago … - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 21 October 1893, p 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/b8705291-6f0b-47c4-a006-185aec6d354a/28519910091_546691d3fc_b.jpg Stories - Half a century ago … - Make it stand out Frederick Terry, View of West Maitland from the Hunter, NSW, 1855 (Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/50d1fbfb-118c-4987-8987-ef43afb677f5/Fullwood.jpg Stories - Half a century ago … - Make it stand out A H Fullwood, The Hunter at Maitland, c1886 (Maitland Libraries, LIB2022.16) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/ploughing-matches monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cc7197f7-bb1b-4485-8b3e-a6fcd3ed611d/Kerry+image+125394.jpg Stories - Ploughing matches - Make it stand out Photograph of a ploughing match, Kerry and Co, c 1884-1917 Note the crowds in the background. The location of the event is not known. (Powerhouse Museum, 85/1284-70) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1670051275075-6T97KH0YM942P5RFTK3J/Willilam+Mead.jpg Stories - Ploughing matches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1670051290239-J4MI4PAJEU10I02XAM5C/William+Mead+Certificate.jpg Stories - Ploughing matches https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-great-flood-of-1893 monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/15eca4d8-b8e8-452d-b513-0f672e0455e2/SMH+1893-05-10+p5.jpg Stories - The great flood of 1893 - Make it stand out Sydney Morning Herald, 10 March 1893, p 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/8ea182c5-7ce8-4167-9be1-8c193f6299d9/14090430782_4694bb20a4_b.jpg Stories - The great flood of 1893 - Make it stand out High St, West Maitland, looking east, 1893 (Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/74c1e599-65c6-4dc5-b72c-72db378398ea/26085607063_1eacca9e0e_b.jpg Stories - The great flood of 1893 - Make it stand out Floodwaters in Melbourne St, East Maitland, 1893. (Photographer: George Thomas Chambers) (Picture Maitland) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/bob-watson-sprinting-champion monthly 0.5 2022-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/8066d9fe-3648-4364-ae20-5a99d502be50/TCJ+-+Watson+and+Applitt.jpg Stories - Bob Watson - sprinting champion - Make it stand out The Sydney Mail, 2 November 1878 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/357172cb-8f88-48ea-8e1d-925cbaea2dd3/Town+and+Country+Journal++13+May+1876.jpg Stories - Bob Watson - sprinting champion - Make it stand out Sketch of Hewitt and Watson running, 1876 Town and Country Journal, 13 May 1876 https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-long-bridges monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/0b66a2fd-6172-4b9c-a24c-3e54ad502b3b/nla.pic-an8329629-v.jpg Stories - The Long Bridges - Make it stand out Frederick Charles Terry, The Long Bridge, West Maitland, 1855. Maitland Hospital, opened 1849, is on the right in the background. (National Library of Australia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/8a4dd6f0-b9a2-46d3-9856-56a1522a5744/MAAS+119223.jpg Stories - The Long Bridges - Make it stand out The Long Bridge, West Maitland, late 1890s. Sydney based photographer Henry King took the image. (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7a975291-8040-4797-a1fa-d8e78aecfd8b/13275597363_5af23f104d_c.jpg Stories - The Long Bridges - Make it stand out The Long Bridge, about 1900. (Picture Maitland, Maitland City Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d3420af7-f147-4292-ab2b-13d40d07e777/2014_3033d.jpg Stories - The Long Bridges - Make it stand out Aerial view looking towards Maitland Hospital before the poplar trees were planted, 1930s. (Maitland and District Historical Society 2014-3033d) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3919e3f4-d3ed-4df3-aef2-83cb595a05bb/26466910350_25113f5066_b+%281%29.jpg Stories - The Long Bridges - Make it stand out The poplars along either side of the Long Bridge, about 1943. 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(Picture Maitland) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/depredations-by-bushrangers monthly 0.5 2022-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/18f7427d-cfab-41d5-a529-425de9f26e24/MM+1843-02-18+p2a.jpg Stories - Depredations by bushrangers - Make it stand out Excerpt from ‘Bushranging’, Maitland Mercury, 18 February 1843, p2 https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/bushranging-in-the-maitland-area monthly 0.5 2022-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7824db10-e5a6-495a-985d-d18612159603/SLNSW_FL3292587.jpg Stories - Bushranging in the Maitland area - Captain Thunderbolt in death, 1870, photographed by Andrew Cunningham (State Library of NSW) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4410c5fc-0e79-4ffc-a2ca-e296f2c9711d/Jessie_Hickman_nee_Hunt_alias_McIntyre.png Stories - Bushranging in the Maitland area - Jessie Hickman, 1913. (Wikipedia) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-veterans-of-veterans-flat monthly 0.5 2022-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/38fcd859-04a2-4b44-8203-d1da4df683d9/Veterans+map.jpg Stories - The veterans of Veterans Flat - Make it stand out The holdings at Veterans Flat. Note that Regent St is connected to what is now Cessnock Rd. cartography: Lawrence Henderson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9077d126-55dc-4d8c-b6be-2b1e9cba4241/Veterans+Map+key.jpg Stories - The veterans of Veterans Flat - Make it stand out Details of lots and recipients at Veterans Flat (see map for locations) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f6fd3c0f-1dfb-4237-901a-4e0ddbb1c54c/MM+1848-07-12+p3.jpg Stories - The veterans of Veterans Flat - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 12 July 1848, p3 https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/john-wright monthly 0.5 2022-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c8b03839-bc89-494a-8a63-9ec9a7355017/John+and+Harriet+Wright.jpg Stories - John Wright - Harriet Rebecca and John Wright, circa 1871. (Wright family photographs) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7b54116f-41f5-460a-a2a3-7e95250e8280/West+Maitland+Rail+Station+1877.jpg Stories - John Wright - Make it stand out West Maitland Railway Station, 1877. (Picture Maitland, Maitland City Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6796a5c5-dcda-4c49-b586-a6d412e7d39c/Methodist+Church%2C+High+Street.JPG Stories - John Wright - Make it stand out The Methodist Church (now the Uniting Church), High Street, Maitland. (Photograph: Janece McDonald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/21a88865-2bfc-4170-9807-710ceb512bb1/Chadlington.jpg Stories - John Wright - Make it stand out Chadlington, the Wright family home. (Wright family collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/969f2bc6-54e7-43e8-babf-3e3ea961b1f6/Building+Chadlington.jpg Stories - John Wright - Make it stand out Building Chadlington (Wright family collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9d495f53-1d8a-480c-919f-4dd0341addd8/2020+Rectory.JPG Stories - John Wright - Make it stand out St Mary’s Rectory, Church St, Maitland, 2020. (Photograph: Lawrence Henderson) Since John Wright’s single storey structure, a second storey and ground floor additions have been added. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/35757704-36a9-4a56-a22b-fb143e1f695f/East+Maitland+courthouse.JPG Stories - John Wright - Make it stand out East Maitland Courthouse, 2022 (Photograph: Janece McDonald) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1655000510897-3N7BKA47KAI2WTM9GARR/Chadlington%2Bback%2Bview.jpg Stories - John Wright - Chadlington in disrepair. (Wright family collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1655000396592-KALIGHTW14EPSLCF1ZW8/Chadlington+demolition.jpg Stories - John Wright - Chadlington being demolished. (Wright family collection) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/port-of-maitland monthly 0.5 2022-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f6166d5d-16e5-4d9d-b7fe-3818f151bddd/Wallis+Ck+GNR.jpg Stories - Port of Maitland - Make it stand out Part of the parish map of West Maitland, 1885. (Parish maps: NSW Land Registry Services | HLRV (nswlrs.com.au) The map shows Horseshoe Bend, the meander in which the port developed, and the original confluence of Wallis Creek with the Hunter River. The later mouth of Wallis Creek was created artificially as part of the development of the railway line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/0bb0515e-c97e-4018-a2d3-10c3b3a34961/Kings+plan.jpg Stories - Port of Maitland - Make it stand out James King’s map of ‘Port Maitland’, circa 1840, showing Mallon St and Russell St, Horseshoe Bend. The map shows Mallon St and Russell St, Horseshoe Bend. Hunter St is at the far left and opposite it is the island that was washed away. Hunter Terrace was an extension of Mallon St off to the right of the map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d53aa3e7-ac86-4cda-9706-1ebbb5bcbcb4/Turner+map.jpg Stories - Port of Maitland - Make it stand out The original central business district of Maitland, next to the port on the Horseshoe Bend. (John W. Turner, The Rise of High Street, 1988.). The numbers refer to business establishments. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/zkzjhnp7fenj06hm1sukeab9h75p4r monthly 0.5 2022-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1654674415657-WBYY69HPXXARBB3NRIJD/Edward%2BClose.jpg Stories - Social class in early Maitland - Edward Close https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1654675775061-X24DWPRPLXG0LDLU2KW6/SLNSW_FL3268229.jpg Stories - Social class in early Maitland - Francis Allman (State Library of NSW) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-railway-that-never-was monthly 0.5 2022-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d1909b76-09d3-4abf-8bb6-2b6ddfe74e72/Allandale.jpg Stories - The railway that never was - Make it stand out Parish Map of Allandale, 1903 (Parish Maps, NSW Land Registry Services) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6165a6b5-37ba-4cbc-b281-40abb1c839a7/Map+of+the+Wollombi+railway+that+never+was.jpg Stories - The railway that never was - Make it stand out Map of the proposed Wollombi railway. (Cartography: L J Henderson) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/rail-link-to-sydney monthly 0.5 2022-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/a33ac0be-921a-4d2e-a41d-dfdc01a7f8ff/NSW+proposed+rail+lines.jpg Stories - Rail link to Sydney - Make it stand out The three proposed rail routes between Sydney and the Hunter Valley. (Cartographer: Lawrence Henderson) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-railway-extends monthly 0.5 2022-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/ef45e612-47cd-4a73-979b-5fef8a8cbe6d/GNRailway.jpg Stories - The railway extends 1863-1932 - Make it stand out Map showing the Great Northern Railway’s link to Brisbane and to the North Coast Railway, showing the dates of the openings of stations. (Cartography: Lawrence Henderson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e4ba9273-c164-4fde-9699-aa39f91fe482/GraftonBasculeBridgeSpanLiftingCirca1932.jpg Stories - The railway extends 1863-1932 - Make it stand out Clarence River bridge, Grafton, 1932. (Wikimedia) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/onward-to-singleton monthly 0.5 2022-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/bd1f5225-b379-4420-b965-10b3564c2edc/Farley+Rail+Stn.jpg Stories - Onward to Singleton 1858-1863 - Make it stand out Farley Railway Station, 1987. (Jeff Mullier, nswrail.net) The station building is on the up platform, looking in the direction of Singleton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/8223dfe1-1f55-49e4-80cf-6f04ece22dce/Lochinvar+Rail+Stn.jpg Stories - Onward to Singleton 1858-1863 - Make it stand out Lochinvar Railway Station looking in the direction of Singleton, 1987 (Jeff Mullier: nswrail.net) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5ca6b8e6-1e70-466c-9cfb-983d9f2b7798/Singleton+Rail+station.JPG Stories - Onward to Singleton 1858-1863 - Make it stand out Singleton Railway Station platform, 2016. (Photograph: Lawrence Henderson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/27e553e6-860a-4812-823a-da26f93dd7ce/singlwttongalop5may1863.png Stories - Onward to Singleton 1858-1863 - Make it stand out Advertisment for the Singleton Railway Galop, Maitland Mercury, 2 May 1863. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/grandest-party monthly 0.5 2022-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/8a6bfc78-315d-4f53-be3a-ce8d444b218e/Maitland+historic+railways.jpg Stories - Grandest party - July 1858 - Make it stand out Map of Maitland showing current and historical railways. (Cartography: Lawrence Henderson) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/east-to-west-maitland-railway monthly 0.5 2022-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/05dbaece-a453-4183-94a8-b43db4c17160/West+Maitland+Rail+Station+1877.jpg Stories - East Maitland to West Maitland railway 1857-1858 - Make it stand out West Maitland Railway Station, 1877. (Picture Maitland, Maitland City Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/36b526a1-1f38-4bac-a891-830d6fa28c48/Wallis+Ck+GNR.jpg Stories - East Maitland to West Maitland railway 1857-1858 - Make it stand out Part of the parish map of West Maitland, 1885, showing the old and new mouths of Wallis Creek. (Parish maps: NSW Land Registry Services | HLRV (nswlrs.com.au) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-new-railway-in-use monthly 0.5 2022-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/63e8816c-cf70-4667-ae10-aeb7d8264387/time+table+28-3-1857.jpg Stories - The new railway in use 1857-1858 - Make it stand out Timetable for trains running between Newcastle (Honeysuckle Station ) and East Maitland. (Maitland Mercury, 28 March 1857). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/54ee4edf-94a5-4bc3-a4a0-37a525e118cf/Newcastle+Rail+Station+1890.jpg Stories - The new railway in use 1857-1858 - Make it stand out Newcastle Railway Station, 1890. (NSW State Archives) This building, constructed in the late 1870s, replaced the original Newcastle Railway Station. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/grand-opening monthly 0.5 2022-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/b6e35345-103f-4c84-82f0-b211a7ad83be/MM+1857-03-31+p2.jpg Stories - Grand opening - March 1857 - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 31 March 1857, p2. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/east-maitland-to-hexham monthly 0.5 2022-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/207ae6d4-1e0f-4cf8-8fdb-3814fac52c42/1st+Loco+GNR+1857.jpg Stories - East Maitland to Hexham railway 1855-1857 - Make it stand out The first locomotive on the Great Northern Railway, 1857. (Newcastle Herald Archives) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/hunter-river-railway-company monthly 0.5 2022-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3de7648b-f039-431b-9c25-687776eb7c09/Ellenborough.jpg Stories - Hunter River Railway Company 1853-1855 - Make it stand out The ship Ellenborough being towed into port by the steam tug Washington. Watercolour by Frederick Garling (1806-1873) (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/713528d4-a420-4e07-a256-89b13d11ea31/MM+1855-01-06+p2.jpg Stories - Hunter River Railway Company 1853-1855 - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 6 January 1855, p 2. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/nowlands-gap monthly 0.5 2022-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/06f470ef-6a38-4bdb-a877-c7267df6a28a/SMH+1861-01-23+p3+a.jpg Stories - Nowland’s Gap - Make it stand out [In this endeavour Nowland also had to contend with escaped convicts operating as bushrangers.] Nowland went on to explain that he https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d34e32e7-77d9-45c3-bfcc-aaf717223d55/SMH+1861-01-23+p3b.jpg Stories - Nowland’s Gap - Make it stand out Sydney Morning Herald, 23 January 1861, p3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/ada9e059-f0a7-4d6b-9f76-274e83189378/Nowlands+Gap.jpg Stories - Nowland’s Gap Nowland’s Gap sign on the New England Highway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1653277148265-NQ9OMK843ATZ3RNT6K9W/Nowland+grave+2.jpeg Stories - Nowland’s Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1653277162413-OKZ63IV4T529NUUZNCU2/Nowland+memorial+-+Monumen+Australia.jpg Stories - Nowland’s Gap https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/sex-in-the-town monthly 0.5 2022-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6af5bca4-cf3c-4ceb-b19c-c02871a91cd8/MM+1854-10-07+p4.jpg Stories - Sex in the town - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 7 October 1854, p4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e9aa395a-5eaf-4aa8-906e-43368539b0fd/MM+1857-11-10+p2.jpg Stories - Sex in the town - Make it stand out Maitland Mercury, 10 November 1857, p2 https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-first-failed-attempt monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/967ab602-9968-46ab-9e06-784bfa4bc4f3/Plan+for+the+town+of+Maitland+1829.jpg Stories - The first failed attempt to move Maitland - Make it stand out George Boyle White’s Plan for the Town of Maitland, 1829. (NSW State Archives) Wallis Creek (with the original bridge over it) is at top left and Metford is at the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7f544b31-bf2c-4950-976d-cd7dd0690043/1829+map+superimposed+onto+%27Google%27.jpg Stories - The first failed attempt to move Maitland - Make it stand out The boundaries of George Boyle White’s 1829 plan superimposed on today’s street pattern. (Google Maps) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1652995797341-F6MBWC06ZDLQW5JB500J/Metford+Survey+Marker.jpg Stories - The first failed attempt to move Maitland - Metford survey marker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1652995813898-DRP4JF2PENNMX6SPLXNY/Tenambit+Survey+Marker.jpg Stories - The first failed attempt to move Maitland - Tenambit survey marker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1652995834337-F9S2MO4IQCPLLWRM8WU2/Plaque+on+Tenambit+Survey+Marker.jpg Stories - The first failed attempt to move Maitland - Plaque next to Tenambit survey marker The plaque reads: ‘The adjacent stone was placed here in 1839 on behalf of the Surveyor-General of New South Wales to mark the boundary of the Town of Maitland. The plaque was supplied by East Maitland Rotary Club in 1987.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/101ea3a2-2100-4d5c-bea8-e505103fb3af/George+Boyle+White.jpg Stories - The first failed attempt to move Maitland - George Boyle White (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/the-great-flood-of-1820 monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/624830bb-3bc3-478c-9532-979dae288f27/CyrilRenwick.jpg Stories - The great flood of 1820 - Cyril Renwick (University of Newcastle Cultural Collections) Renwick estimated the heights of known floods at the Belmore Bridge for the years before the gauge was installed at the Bridge in 1867. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cfd85531-97f0-4e44-80c0-a9aedebb10b5/303421-max+Lucey+photo.jpg Stories - The great flood of 1820 - Make it stand out 1955 flood level at the old Belmore Bridge. (Jim Lucey photograph, University of Newcastle Living Histories) The old Belmore Bridge did not exist in 1820, but the river reached virtually the same height in 1820 as it did in 1955. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/henry-dangar-first-surveyor monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/215c08dd-ae01-4116-96a2-0be11f232863/Dangar+portrait.jpg Stories - Henry Dangar, first surveyor - Henry Dangar (right) was responsible for imposing some discipline on the legal situation with regard to land in the early years of European settlement in the Maitland area. The original allotments, given in 1812 and 1818 to the first settlers at Paterson’s Plains and Wallis Plains respectively, were without stable tenure and were highly informal, even irregular in their establishment: they were all about 30 acres (12 hectares) in size but none had clearly defined boundaries. It was Dangar, 11 years after the first settlers had taken up their blocks at Paterson’s Plains, who surveyed their holdings, established proper boundaries and conducted an inventory of the improvements the settlers had made. He did the same at Wallis Plains. He also surveyed and mapped much of the rest of the Hunter Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1652767315569-BEHLY147IU4WEH4H5Q9Q/Neotsfield.jpg Stories - Henry Dangar, first surveyor - Neotsfield homestead, 2015 (Singleton Argus, 27 February 2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1652767330059-DKO1UAGJ4BX7W2TXHUO3/Dangar+mausoleum.jpg Stories - Henry Dangar, first surveyor - Dangar mausoleum, All Saints Anglican Church, Singleton (Australian Cemetery Index) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/lachlan-macquarie-and-maitland monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/edd395a6-0194-45a0-8956-992e722acfe3/Lachlan+Macquarie.jpg Stories - Lachlan Macquarie and Maitland - Governor Lachlan Macquarie photograph of a portrait (National Archives of Australia) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/molly-morgan-redoubtable-pioneer monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/bef052de-7fdc-4634-8d80-d908500f091d/Convict_ship_Neptune00.jpg Stories - Molly Morgan, redoubtable pioneer - Drawing of the Neptune (Wikimedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1fc4bc4f-8082-44f8-a559-be42db946892/Map+-+Hunter+p+21.jpg Stories - Molly Morgan, redoubtable pioneer - Make it stand out The Wallis Plains holdings as surveyed in 1823. Molly Morgan’s (listed here under her final married name of Hunt) is number 12. (Reproduced from Cynthia Hunter’s Bound for Wallis Plains, p 21) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/0711d45e-9f0c-4806-a4a6-43b14f9cffaa/Zawislak+in+Hunter+p+55.jpg Stories - Molly Morgan, redoubtable pioneer - Make it stand out Pawel Zawislak’s gentle imagining of Molly Morgan in Cynthia Hunter’s Bound for Wallis Plains, 2012, p 55 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1652486423141-YTGWK2BVZ4XLSX95T7I7/Truth%2B1951.jpg Stories - Molly Morgan, redoubtable pioneer - Truth, 14 January 1951 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1652486254006-O0LPOHX8UCOVJHAY8X95/Molly+Dancing.jpg Stories - Molly Morgan, redoubtable pioneer - Dudley Lewis's The Life and Legend of Molly Morgan, Illustration by Joseph Cross https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/back-to-maitland-1927 monthly 0.5 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/2ceb83af-5a0d-486d-b498-4bfabde8fabc/Screenshot+2022-04-16+235610.jpg Stories - Back to Maitland 1927 - Make it stand out First page of the souvenir book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1650352393309-PHCA1P2NRAIMCF0P84J4/Geggie.jpg Stories - Back to Maitland 1927 - Venita Geggie (Souvenir book) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1650352437585-GIBZKO6CIR6UJIZVPC9Z/Screenshot%252B2022-04-17%252B000120.jpg Stories - Back to Maitland 1927 - Clare Hinchey (Souvenir book) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d60c1cc8-0e0a-410c-9fb6-b2feb74d228a/Screenshot+2022-04-16+2358141.jpg Stories - Back to Maitland 1927 - Make it stand out A sketch of the proposed ambulance building. (Souvenir Book) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/rev-george-middleton monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f77f633f-3b77-4861-beb2-1bbebfdbc687/1818_1821.jpg Stories - Rev George Middleton - Make it stand out The first properties at Paterson’s Plains, including Middleton’s glebe. (Brian Walsh, Woodville Uncovered, 2021, p 15) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4bc7dfb7-f3f9-494d-9268-41be8a660a33/Middleton+gravestone.jpg Stories - Rev George Middleton - The Rev Middleton’s headstone in the Morpeth Cemetery. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/poundkeeping-in-colonial-maitland monthly 0.5 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/ecafc68e-007c-4a66-9968-d48b6fffe4ba/NSW+Gov+Gazette+3+Sep+1850.jpg Stories - Poundkeeping in colonial Maitland - Make it stand out NSW Government Gazette, 3 September 1850. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/punts-in-the-lower-hunter monthly 0.5 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f98ed483-ecae-4c80-b790-4b1aaec767f0/PatersonPunt1860.JPG Stories - Punts in the Lower Hunter - Make it stand out The Paterson punt, about 1860. (NSW Department of Main Roads Archive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/c4f8369c-bce3-40b3-b51c-d8929d0da191/HintonPunt1876.jpg Stories - Punts in the Lower Hunter - Make it stand out The Hinton punt, carrying a horse and cart from Morpeth, 1876. (Ross Craig Collection, University of Newcastle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cbe5c9d8-4d4f-45a0-a89c-332fd6300607/Hexham+Punt.jpg Stories - Punts in the Lower Hunter - Make it stand out The Hexham punt, with cars aboard, about 1946. The Hexham punt was operated by the Department of Main Roads. (State Library of NSW) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/spanish-flu monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649134430826-NYF05XDWREYXJZIE9FN6/NRS4481_ST6679%2B-%2BRiley%2BStreet%2BDepot%2BSurry%2BHills%2BApril%2B1919.jpg Stories - Spanish flu - Riley St Depot, Surry Hills, April 1919 (NSW Archives and Records) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649133992807-PBE45EPZC7OYNCIZ6Q4F/nurses-in-isolation-unit-rnsh-during-influenza-epidemic.jpeg Stories - Spanish flu - Nurses in the Royal North Shore Hospital isolation unit. (Royal North Shore Hospital Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649134245073-EJHB0O8O1NNMWOJIWJ2F/nma.img-ex20094004-050-wm-vs1.jpg Stories - Spanish flu - Quarantine camp, Wallangarra, May 1919 (National Museum of Australia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/01b592fa-368b-402c-8708-27557225ebd5/MDM+1919-01-28+p+4.jpg Stories - Spanish flu - Maitland Daily Mercury, 28 January 1919, p 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649122751103-HYPMH0E6K3H0M8M66F7D/9584030421_0b248b4ce5_o.jpg Stories - Spanish flu - Benhome, about 1900 (Picture Maitland, Maitland City Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649125356856-BXAAXY544AJADZHYA2DH/27714043380_caa46d2fa4_o.jpg Stories - Spanish flu - West Maitland Technical College, 1910 (Report of the Department of Public Works for the year ended 30 June 1909.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649128727601-G32PSB6GYEKPI123DECO/MDM+1919-01-29+p4.jpg Stories - Spanish flu - Maitland Daily Mercury, 29 January 1919, p 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649129005033-J4ZW6HUGLA7WY9L1EB0F/MDM+1919-02-21+p+4.jpg Stories - Spanish flu - Maitland Daily Mercury, 21 February 1919, p 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649129265330-1D1OUZMDWFXZ2X9WBIOG/4.JPG Stories - Spanish flu - Mary Carr's gravestone (detail) (Ruth King) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649130869994-3TPXZJAL3JIGDXB3A5Y9/HM010.jpg Stories - Spanish flu - Adele Hollywood and her two eldest children, 1915 (Holly McNamee) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1649130714560-DCEFK15U4KSYC9NTM249/scan_cherylf_2022-01-24-10-25-26_1.jpg Stories - Spanish flu - Frank Hinchey with his wife and two children, about 1912 Fanny (nee Bickerton) and Frank Hinchey with Clarice and William. (Suzanne Martin Collection) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/doc-evatt monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/53df3e7d-ae02-45f4-abc2-4923107c2bac/9581364516_dd9d0a85e3_b.jpg Stories - ‘Doc’ Evatt - Make it stand out Bank Hotel, Melbourne St, East Maitland, 1924. (Noel Butlin Archives, Australian National University via Picture Maitland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7de05802-8dfe-4a89-acca-ae34ab0c0260/H._V._Evatt_in_1925.jpg Stories - ‘Doc’ Evatt Herbert Vere Evatt, about 1925. (State Library of NSW) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/2c3eb81e-1f17-4834-a3e0-5bb6d0e78569/ChifleyEvatt.jpg Stories - ‘Doc’ Evatt - Make it stand out Evatt (left) with Ben Chifley and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, 1946. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d39e4228-019c-4bc3-8ff5-69a87eea655c/nla.obj-144082964-1.jpg Stories - ‘Doc’ Evatt - Evatt was the Deputy Leader of the federal ALP from 1946 to 1951 under Ben Chifley and became Leader in 1951. His leadership was fraught, however, and he was to lose three successive general elections (in 1954, 1955 and 1958) to the Liberal-Country Party coalition under Robert Menzies. Evatt became mired in the Petrov Affair, and his sympathy for the Soviet Union saw him painted by his conservative adversaries and in much of the media as being dangerously close to the communist cause. Max Dupain, Portrait of H.V. Evatt sitting at a desk, 1951 (National Library of Australia) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitland-jewish-cemetery monthly 0.5 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/5dee9f29-1aa1-4ed7-b15c-db6e98b9079e/IMG_20210423_140552.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - Make it stand out A corner of the cemetery, April 2021. The photograph was taken after extensive conservation and landscaping work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6746a56e-5a0a-4642-bd7b-c325c470c7cc/04cropped.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - Maitland Synagogue, late 19th century. (Australian Jewish Historical Society) The synagogue building was listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648700643890-6EZR4DLU4889NRWDZSW6/LewisRachelGraveEarly20CTrimmed.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - Grave of Rachel Lewis, c 1915 (Private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648697544803-MEF2A48GVPIH00LI0EC3/MJC_22_LEWIS_Rachel1908_20170615_01.JPG Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - Grave of Rachel Lewis, 2017 (Sach Killam) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648697508033-1EMM07WGUR6X3HQH0R8A/MJC_01_ILLFELD_Myer-Caroline_20160512_02.JPG Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - Grave of Myer and Caroline Illfeld, 2016 (Sach Killam) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648697639039-Z3DJ7YCCMQLSM2JBE279/MJC_02_MANDELSON_HyamElias1919_20140309_06.JPG Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - Grave of Hyam Mandelson, 2014 (Sach Killam) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648697695069-E7XWF2YJD6EVFH9BFFKC/MJC_24_HART_Benjamin1905_20140309_06.JPG Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - Grave of Benjamin Hart, 2014 (Sach Killam) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648697463561-JF9KRD62UB2TH8QV12A0/MJC_44_COHEN_Morris1878_20120210_05.JPG Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - Grave of Morris Cohen (detail), 2012 (Sach Killam) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648697419327-FVB17XSLOQ8KQ1BQTSKC/MJC_stonecarving_hand_20160512_0.JPG Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - Detail, 2016 (Sach Killam) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698739302-3ZL010TG6L8EBJ8AFTAK/24.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 1970s (Private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698380452-4HQPE8KDRSVEAX6V16ME/maitland+b+-+april+72_0004.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 1970s (Private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698416722-1AOXERQ1NG7MOLGNEART/DSC05576.JPG Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 2009 (Janis Wilton) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698452444-35KJ5LVWQOORXYHRB9ZO/DSC05532.JPG Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 2009 (Janis Wilton) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698478010-SFWMI7SDC77GIK59LL8T/DSC05576.JPG Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 2009 (Janis Wilton) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698507097-LBO111URY1JGSB0FFHRN/IMG_20210423_140418.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 2021 (Clare James) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698560071-S233O83GDQJFSES9YLQZ/IMG_20210423_140523.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 2021 (Clare James) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698570907-RTEFTZFXM9CBBTU9S9G6/IMG_20210423_140552.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 2021 (Clare James) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698583146-H7TEATN18MMGLB24X27Z/IMG_20210423_140614.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 2021 (Clare James) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648698601543-LNI7FDBUK9MTBN1AT4UI/IMG_20210423_140641.jpg Stories - Maitland Jewish Cemetery - 2021 (Clare James) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/wolstenholme-memorial-column monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648600490672-3BK43XTLH85E272Z2USZ/9588938540_48dc9ed9e7_c.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial - On the corner of High and Church Streets, c1913 (Picture Maitland, Maitland City Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648603921473-NM496GDIPA64NLCQV6C8/James_Wolstenholme-57037-21970.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial - In Maitland Park, 2016 (Monument Australia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648601416775-KLVCS4GREP9BVJD2A4RV/Facebook+1.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648601433490-LMPSUYSW4PWPN3D43MGF/Facebook+2.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648601445139-KS23L1EOSLS0S2YXVYVL/Facebook+3.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648601457802-QQQ3PVTKYON8JV45KWM2/Facebook+4.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/7afb283e-98b1-4982-bdcd-48e3bad8cb93/26466915280_4f24526ebd_b.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial - Make it stand out Wolstenholme Timber Yard, St Andrew St, West Maitland, c 1911. (Picture Maitland, Maitland City Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/589f2b66-1c95-49d6-b52b-3dd21e5f1170/Adelaide+eg.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial Right: Venere di Canova, a Carrara marble statue in Adelaide and said to be the city’s first street state. (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648602041964-0NSYNVQVCI0WFXEBN3W6/Screenshot+2022-03-30+075651.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial - The memorial outside Maitland Railway Station. (Maitland and District Historical Society Bulletin, 22/4, 2015, p. 10.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/1648602060726-U1VX5K9IQB1D2D9LTIWG/Memorial+knocked+over.jpg Stories - Wolstenholme memorial https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/aboriginal-nations-and-european-invasion monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/3c461532-a82e-404e-8dcd-cc880da72dec/Grinding+grooves.jpg Stories - Aboriginal nations and European invasion - Make it stand out Grinding grooves in Green Wattle Creek. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/changes-to-vegetation-and-wetlands monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/dbb22c6b-2108-4420-8ad2-7259e2095341/Walsh+and+Archer+9.jpeg Stories - Changes to vegetation and wetlands - Make it stand out (Walsh and Archer, p 9) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/297606f9-4f16-4e96-b3d4-18e08ce4e2ad/Walsh+and+Archer+9+b.jpg Stories - Changes to vegetation and wetlands - Make it stand out (Walsh and Archer, p 9) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/a-deep-water-river-port monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/87b66f04-a6f3-4682-a815-533e6aef79b7/Sophia+Jane.jpg Stories - A deep-water river port - Sophia Jane (H M Abbott, The Newcastle Pockets and the Hunter Valley, 1943) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9d60fc1d-5efe-4ab0-9032-9a9de0cc9482/William+IV+%28002%29.jpg Stories - A deep-water river port - William IV (H M Abbott, The Newcastle Pockets and the Hunter Valley, 1943) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d6cfd762-97c3-4168-9b6c-dcc1c3508d0c/The+Port+of+Morpeth+c.+1865.jpg Stories - A deep-water river port - Make it stand out Port of Morpeth, 1865 (‘Morpeth’, Illustrated Sydney News, 16 October 1865) Steamships were still operating but the Sophia Jane and William IV were long gone. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitlands-first-merchants monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/889d7387-17ee-40db-b419-7c2761127d73/William+Powditch%2C1871+at+age+76+%28Auckland+City+Library%29+cropped.jpg Stories - Maitland’s first merchants - Powditch was born in Tynemouth, Northumberland in 1795 and commanded the Royal George which brought Governor Thomas Brisbane to Sydney in 1821. RIght: William Powditch, 1871 (Auckland City Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/74febe9c-4457-46f7-8a22-b84d63d77e0d/Lower+High+Street+in+Flood+1913+%28002%29.jpg Stories - Maitland’s first merchants - Make it stand out The embankment, High St, during 1913 flood (Picture Maitland, Maitland City Library) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/deep-time monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/ac31617e-935a-4504-bc8d-b11c02b5be42/Geological+section.jpg Stories - Deep time - Make it stand out Geological section from the Illawarra to New England (Helen Russell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/cdbaa3bb-40a8-427e-bf3e-d31b219f45f6/Geological+map.jpg Stories - Deep time - Make it stand out Geological map and timescale From Geology of the Lower Hunter Valley, New South Wales (pamphlet), NSW Trade and Investment, Resources and Energy, 2014. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/a-trip-to-coal-river monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/fbb45c67-4c23-436f-af30-e6949ade1c2f/Lady+Nelson.jpg Stories - A trip to Coal River in 1801 - Lady Nelson (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d044c2c8-59c2-4925-addb-0b363c3a9dc6/Barallier+survey+%28part%29.jpg Stories - A trip to Coal River in 1801 - Make it stand out Barrallier’s survey map (part) For the full survey see ‘Barrallier’s surveys of the Hunter Region (1801-1802)’, Hunter Living Histories, 15 July 2016. https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/thomas-dimmock-printing-entrepreneur monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/d7c1134f-e41a-4608-af30-06a619ba68da/MM+1879-04-19+p3c.jpg Stories - Thomas Dimmock, printing entrepreneur - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/2beba7a1-e41c-4520-961c-8fcf59249129/42741946644_7b0cb12b4e_o.jpg Stories - Thomas Dimmock, printing entrepreneur - Make it stand out T Dimmock premises, about 1884 (Photograph by H H Ballard) (Picture Maitland, Maitland City Council) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/bfa2763c-3391-41f4-886e-fde6c06364a6/29587361148_ece0a20ebf_o.jpg Stories - Thomas Dimmock, printing entrepreneur - He had become a member of Maitland's business elite and a leading member of several important institutions including the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, the Maitland and District Chamber of Commerce, the Loyal Good Design Lodge of Oddfellows, the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society, the Maitland Mutual Building Society and St Mary's Church. He was on the board of the Building Society as a director from its inception in 1888, and for a time he was its chairman. Right: Thomas Dimmock (from Tom Morgan, Mutually Yours.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e644d17f-4756-4bfb-a608-09c06f65b606/25989391731_49b1480257_o.jpg Stories - Thomas Dimmock, printing entrepreneur - Make it stand out T. Dimmock building, 1922 From With Compliments, West Maitland, 1922, printed by T Dimmock. (Picture Maitland, Maitland City Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/6d24ca67-1803-4a7b-8b12-38b282f84bae/DSC02777+-+Copy.JPG Stories - Thomas Dimmock, printing entrepreneur - Make it stand out T Dimmock building, High St, 2011 https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/gentleman-john-smith monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4f0fdb93-f620-4779-9ddd-c961eaa51954/2021+Dec+30+%2824%29+x.jpg Stories - Gentleman John Smith - Smith, born in Manchester in about 1787, was transported to Sydney in 1809. Within two years he had absconded and returned to England but he offended again, was tried again and transported a second time. Back in Sydney he was convicted yet once more, of robbery, and sent to Newcastle. He shares with Molly Morgan the ‘achievement’ of returning to England from the other side of the world (a none-too-easy feat) and being transported a total of three times. Right: Pawel Zawislak’s imagining of John Smith, in Cynthia Hunter: Bound for Wallis Plains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/0e6df6e4-0660-4722-8589-dc0f0d2f72ba/2021+Dec+30+%2816%29+x.jpg Stories - Gentleman John Smith - Make it stand out An advertisement placed by Smith in the Sydney Gazette, 14 August 1823. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/4e4d5e3e-44f0-4758-a787-88009fd66f2b/John+Smith%27s+Flour+Mill+-+Newcastle+St+East+Maitland+%28002%29.JPG Stories - Gentleman John Smith - The building that housed Smith’s original flour mill on the New England Highway, East Maitland. (Photo credit: Kevin Short) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/inciting-another-to-exhume-bodies monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e89d22c2-adf2-4fe0-97f7-3b5e2c56b95c/800px-PhrenologyPix+take2.jpg Stories - Inciting another to exhume bodies - A phrenologist’s chart of a human head (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/54f94331-e991-4fcd-97ee-4d82529069d5/Archibald+S+Hamilton+-+Phrenologist+-+front.jpeg Stories - Inciting another to exhume bodies - Archibald Hamilton (Alexandra Roginski, The Hanged Man and the Body Thief, 2015.) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitlands-federation-connection monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/f88cfb29-b5c5-480d-8f4e-f2466b309d9c/Barton.jpg Stories - Maitland’s federation connections - Edmund Barton received his commission as Prime Minister from the Governor-General, Lord Louis Hopetoun, on Christmas eve 1900. His predecessor, William Lyne had returned his commission as he had not been able to form a government. RIght: Edmund Barton (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9ad8c885-143d-433d-9c0f-5fb4668e0a0b/Griffith.jpg Stories - Maitland’s federation connections - Welsh-born Samuel Griffith, unlike Barton, lived in Maitland for a time. He attended William McIntyre's school in Free Church Street when his father Edward was the minister at the Congregational Church (today's Repertory Theatre) in High St. Right: Samuel Griffith (Wikipedia) https://maitlandstories.com.au/stories/maitlands-high-street monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/e57dfad7-d6bf-4699-8b95-17a937771cc5/C919-0458.jpg Stories - Maitland’s High Street - Make it stand out View of High St, West Maitland, Illustrated Sydney News, 31 March 1855 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0d4958c5f2b284e70f7b8/9c395c3f-467d-436a-9503-7b1c1b22ad9d/29062020092658-0001+%28002%29.jpg Stories - Maitland’s High Street - Make it stand out Detail from John Turner’s plan of Maitland, circa 1840 This section of the plan shows the central business district of the time. David Cohen’s store is located near what was referred to as the Port of Maitland. This bend in the river disappeared following the 1893 flood. It is now Smyth Field. 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