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21 acres sold at 2 pounds per acre
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An island in the Hunter River above Newcastle.Also earlier known as Chapman Island and much later as Carrington
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Captain Blyth of the vessel Zylon drowned near Bullock Island
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Bullock Island allotments for sale. 2 pounds per acre. 18 acres 3 roods. Allotment No. 16
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Money voted in the last Session for construction of a dyke in front of Bullock Island, for the purpose of increasing the scour in the coal channel and thereby deepening it
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The residents of Bullock Island met together for the purpose of considering the advisability of erecting a public school at that place. It was stated that as many as eighty children could be got to attend the school as the parents were in favour of its establishment from the fact that at the present time any children attending schools in Newcastle were compelled to cross the river, and after that the railway line, where great danger existed from the liability to being run over by passing trains. A committee was formed to carry out the object of the meeting
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Bullock Island (Onebygamba) (Chapman Island)
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Honeysuckle Point, one mile from town, is the first suburb. Here there is a bridge over the creek to Bullock's Island, and a branch of the Great Northern line also runs there. The dyke now being made will form a large dock, and the additional railroad and wharfage facilities afforded at Bullock's Island will enable double the quantity of coal shipped at present to be loaded with ease. On the island are several important establishments, the chief of which is the Soho Foundry of Messrs. Morrison and Bearby, situated at euphonious Onebygamba. Here the other day a large fog-bell, for the Northern breakwater, was cast. I believe it was one of the largest castings ever made in the colony, and the event created quite an excitement in the local Press
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Bullock Island Bridge
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Carrington - Newcastle
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Bert Lovetts - Between the River and the Sea by Norm Barney with Terry Callen, p. 13
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Denison Street, or Bullock Island bridge between Carrington and Worth street, Newcastle. Carrington was linked to the mainland by three bridges; the Darvall Street bridge, the Cowper Street bridge (then used for railway traffic only) and this one. This bridge was demolished just before World War 1
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Bullock Island Colliery, Carrington
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Newcastle Morning Herald 27 March 1937
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In the early eighties the Wickham and Bullock Island pit was sunk almost where Armstrong and Royse timber mills were later. It was near the then railway line, and was edged with mud flats and tidal waters. Many miners came from other parts, and the township began to flourish in a big way for the first time