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Wallis Creek Bridge
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Opening of the new suspension bridge of Wallis Creek. Procession marched through High Street and along the road were joined by numerous horsemen and other people. Wet and showery day
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Wallis Creek Bridge
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Estimates for 1853 - 250 pounds for forming approaches to Wallis Creek Bridge
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Wallis Creek Bridge
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1832 Post Office Directory
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The Bridge over Wallis Creek, on either side of this bridge on the banks of the river are the small farms that were allowed to those who had cultivated here, when this was a penal settlement
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Age 23. Assigned to J.T. Gordon
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Wallsby (Welsby)
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Age 30. Assigned to J.P. Webber
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Wallsend Co-operative Colliery
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Newcastle Morning Herald 18 November 1929
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Brief history of the beginning of Wallsend Co-operative mine in NMH in 1929: Mr. William Adam, of Throsby-street; Wickham, who. is now over 80 years of age, and was one of those engaged in the transportation of the first coal won, to Newcastle, via Iron Bark Creek. Mr. Adam wrote: My memory tells me that it was during a strike in 1862 that a party of miners first struck the coal. I well remember leaving Bullock Island in a rowing boat with a party, the other members of which were the late John Howden, James Macara, P. Clark, and my father, Thomas Adam. We went right to the head of the creek, and going up to where the coal was struck, saw the miners throwing it over their shoulders on to the bank. It was my father who had the contract to take the coal to Newcastle, and after it was brought down the creek on small punts, it was placed on board a lighter moored below the bridge (the lighter was named The Islander, and was built on Bullock Island). When the first. cargo was loaded, it took us a fortnight to get down to North Harbour, and I have reason never to forget the experience. IRON BARK CREEK. Besides being used for coal transportation, Iron Bark Creek was availed of for the conveyance of goods from Newcastle to Wallsend s first storekeepers, before the construction of Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company s branch railway. To-day, beyond serving the purpose of Wallsend river men, keen fishermen, who have boats housed on the banks of the creek, the waterway merely is Wallsend s drainage outlet. Probably no colliery in the Northern district has had such an eventful career as the Co-operative mine. Most of the surface plant is still in use to-day in connection with operations in Wallsend-Borehole mine, a non-associated pit, which employs upwards of 60 hands, and, of course, is working regularly. As its name indicated, Co-operative was originally in the hands of a party of miners, and although the co-operative venture failed, the early struggles of the men to amass fortunes are well worthy of a fore-most place in the history of coalmining in this State. On November 25, 1861, James Fletcher, Alan Wilde, Hugh Walker, Samuel Fletcher, William Wonders, George Curtiss, Thomas Alnwick, Robert Forrester, Richard Peeks, William Davis, Duncan Cherry, William Bower, James Richardson, Matthew MacLaren, and James Nelson, all practical miners, engaged in other pits, entered into an agreement, the document setting forth that the parties had leased from Messrs. Kenrick, Kenrick. Brooks. and Company, a parcel of land containing, 1280 acres, with the right to mine the coal underlying it at a royalty of 6d per ton . TUNNEL DRIVEN. In 1862 a tunnel was driven into the outcrop of the seam, adjacent to the screens being used by Wallsend-Borehole to-day. John King and James Goldie turned the first sods, and the first manager was Alan Wilde, with Thomas Hepplewhite as under-manager. For many years the mineral was hauled out of this tunnel. The first won was carted to the head of Iron Bark Creek and loaded on to barges, for transportation to Newcastle. Then, in 1863, when Newcastle-Wallsend Coal, Company completed its branch railway, screens were erected near the junction of what is still known as the Co-operative line, and over a trestle bridge from the tunnel to the screens the loaded skips were hauled on a tram line by horses. Among those engaged as drivers were John Horn, William Hepplewhite, William Duncanson, William Richmond. John King, James Goldie, Walter Beveridge, Thomas Hepplewhite, James Adamson, George Hutchison, and George Stone.
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Funeral of the wife of Daniel Wallwork to move from his residence in Blane-street near the Cottage Bridge
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The Friends of James Goodsir invited to attend the funeral of his deceased Mother, Emily L. Wallwork
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Australian almanac
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Minister Christian Israelites
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Servant of Lewis Cohen
