Lost Newcastle

14/08/2025

in concert in Newcastle - 19 November 2006. The setlist was chosen by their good mate, Mark Richards, and this fabulous poster by artist Daymon Greulich is amazing. Were you there? Do you have any other concert posters?

12/08/2025

Hey - don't forget Lost Newcastle is also on Instagram! We'd love to see you there!
https://www.instagram.com/lostnewcastle/

11/08/2025

Born in 1861 in Clunes, Victoria, George Rose was the son of a Cornish sea captain who later became a shoe shop keeper. As a boy, he developed a passion for photography - and by the age of 19, he had founded the Rose Stereograph Company.

George travelled far and wide to capture images for his famous “Rose Stereographs” - visiting every corner of Australia, as well as New Zealand, Europe, North Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. One notable trip was around 1907, when he toured the Solomon Islands aboard the steamship Makambo.

His thriving business led to sales offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, and even London. By the early 1900s, as cinema began to eclipse stereographs, George shifted focus to the hugely popular Rose Series postcards.

George Rose also visited Korea in 1904 producing a number of photographs - on glass plate negatives - of everyday life in Korea at that time.

He kept photographing and publishing right up until his death in 1942.

I can find information about around 90 Newcastle Rose Series postcards - do you own any original Rose stereographs or postcards? Share them below! Colourised version for your enjoyment!

08/08/2025

'Mrs Bagnall from Newcastle at a conference, 1928'. Who are you, Mrs Bagnall, and what was the conference?

Curious image found online with no context. Go for it, Losties!

07/08/2025

Newcastle's famous 'Victoria' lifeboat stars in this 1906 postcard from Newcastle to New Zealand - but there's a few tricky bits in the text. Can you help?

There’s a few challenges in the handwriting on this postcard sent in 1906 from Newcastle to New Zealand. Was this a postcard from one sister to another?

07/08/2025

A beautiful postcard sent in 1905 from Berenice Macleod to Mr Ludwig Warlitz. 'A Pit', Newcastle, is likely referring to Newcastle Coal Mining Co Colliery 'A' Pit, Glebe, Merewether. But who were Berenice and Ludwig?

There’s a few challenges in the handwriting on this postcard sent in 1906 from Newcastle to New Zealand. Was this a postcard from one sister to another?

05/08/2025

04/08/2025

Every so often, a small discovery can bring a forgotten story home.
While browsing an online auction site, I came across a letter connected to a family with ties to both Newcastle, Australia, and Wales in the UK.
Something about the names, the handwriting, the fragility of the letter, and the scattered trail of information spoke of a story waiting to be pieced together. I purchased the letter and began tracing the family’s history, uncovering a narrative that spans continents – from the coalfields of South Wales, to the mining towns of Tennessee, and also to Newcastle, New South Wales.
This article pulls together official records, cemetery listings, and family history resources to tell just a tiny part of the story of the Argust family – migrants, merchants, and miners whose lives unfolded across three continents. Read story in bio.

31/07/2025

How the purchase of a 1910 letter revealed a story that spans continents – from the coalfields of South Wales, to the mining towns of Tennessee, and finally to Newcastle, New South Wales.

How the purchase of a 1910 letter revealed a narrative that spans continents – from the coalfields of South Wales, to the mining towns of Tennessee, and finally to Newcastle, New South Wales.

19/07/2025

Newcastle Steelworks. Plate and Bar mills were housed in the same mill building. Thank you Helen Earle.

19/07/2025

📣📣📣 New post! On 10 August 1944, wartime skies over Newcastle brought an unexpected emergency - not from enemy fire, but from an unpredictable storm.

A United States Army Air Forces C47 transport plane – the military version of the Douglas DC3 – was carrying a total of 25 men (4 crew and 21 bomber squadron members on leave). While attempting to land at Broadmeadow Aerodrome near Newcastle, the aircraft encountered a violent storm that severel...

25/04/2025

The April 2025 postcard for Lost Newcastle patrons is a reproduction of this evocative photo of a rainy Hunter Street, taken at night in around 1947.

Choosing the patron postcard image each month is always an interesting adventure, but given Anzac Day and the global uncertainty we find ourselves in, I couldn't help but go back to this one several times before settling on it.

Many elements of this photo are familiar to Novocastrians today, including the T&G building - built in 1923 as Scottish House, the Newcastle Post Office with two ghostly figures appearing in this slow exposure, Newcastle Police Station - now The Lockup public art gallery, and the city's memorial to the Great War.

Newcastle's WWI memorial was unveiled in September 1916, however on Anzac Day that year, marchers led by men wounded at Gallipoli saluted the incomplete pedestal and foundation stone that had been laid in early April.

This soldier, with arms reversed and head bowed, is believed to be the first soldier-statue incorporated into WWI memorial in Australia.

If you love being part of the Lost Newcastle community, your support for just $6 each month would be greatly valued - you'll help cover costs and contribute to our annual donation to the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. AND you'll receive a different, beautiful retro post card - direct to your letterbox - every month.

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