TOP 40 NEWCASTLE (Australia) Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best attractions in Newcastle - Australia youtube video - things to do in one of the city in New South Wales. Newcastle has so many best places to visit, so just watch this video and you will know what to do or what must see places in Newcastle.
Newcastle are known for its Newcastle Memorial Walk, one of the best scenic walking areas in Australia. Newcastle also known for its Blackbutt Reserve (nature & wildlife area) and Fort Scratchley (military base & facility). These 3 are top tourist attractions in Newcastle - Australia.
For beach activities in Newcastle, there are so many beaches such as Nobbys Beach, Merewether Beach, Newcastle Beach, Horseshoe Beach, Dudley Beach, Dixon Park Beach, etc. These beaches is most popular beaches in Newcastle.
Another things to do in Newcastle - New South Wales is come with family to water parks or pool on Merewether Baths. Others parks in Newcastle for take a fresh air is King Edwark Park, Foreshore Park and Honeysuckle Reserve. Tourist in Newcastle also likes to exploring national parks such as Myall Lakes National Park.
Next, feel free to explore historic sites or museums tourist attractions in Newcastle such as Newcastle Museum, Nobbys Head and Breakwall, Nobbys Lighthouse, The Lock-Up, Miss Porter's House, Shepherds Hill Fort, Convict Lumber Yard, Watt Street Wharf, Newcastle Mercantile Marine Memorial and World War One Memorial.
Others best places to visit in Newcastle is Christ Church Cathedral, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Baptist Tabernacle, Bathers Way Coastal Walk, Fernleigh Track, Newcastle Art Gallery, Hunter Wetlands Centre, Glenrock Lagoon, Maritime Centre, Marketown, Queens Wharf Tower, Railway Carriage Shed, Newcastle Region Library, Constance The Camel Sculpture, Newcastle Entertainment Centre and Watt Space.
Watch this video of TOP 40 NEWCASTLE attractions to know all things to do or what to do or best places to visit in Newcastle - New South Wales - Australia.
AWM 75, Part 1: The Conception of the Memorial
This series of videos marks the Australian War Memorial's 75th anniversary on 11 November 2016. Produced by Max Uechtritz, edited by Alan Green and featuring the Memorial's Chief Historian, Ashley Ekins. Part 1 looks at how the Memorial was conceived by official war correspondent Charles Bean.
Every Name Has a Story: Researching War Memorials with Newcastle University
A brief introduction, for teachers and young people, demonstrating how to carry out basic research on individuals named on war memorials.
Websites Mentioned in this Video:
Common Wealth War Graves Commission:
Ancestry:
Digital Memory Book:
[4K] Walking to the Australian War Memorial Part 1 - Canberra - Australia Tourism
A gorgeous day walk to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. This Part 1 featuring the exterior of the Memorial.
The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia, and some conflicts involving personnel from the Australian colonies prior to Federation. The memorial includes an extensive national military museum. The Australian War Memorial was opened in 1941, and is widely regarded as one of the most significant memorials of its type in the world.[citation needed]
The Memorial is located in Australia's capital, Canberra. It is the north terminus of the city's ceremonial land axis, which stretches from Parliament House on Capital Hill along a line passing through the summit of the cone-shaped Mount Ainslie to the northeast. No continuous roadway links the two points, but there is a clear line of sight from the front balcony of Parliament House to the War Memorial, and from the front steps of the War Memorial back to Parliament House.
The Australian War Memorial consists of three parts: the Commemorative Area (shrine) including the Hall of Memory with the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier, the Memorial's galleries (museum) and Research Centre (records). The Memorial also has an outdoor Sculpture Garden. The Memorial is currently open daily from 10am until 5pm, except on Christmas Day.
Many people include Anzac Parade as part of the Australian War Memorial because of the Parade's physical design leading up to the War Memorial, but it is maintained separately by the National Capital Authority (NCA).
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Part 02: Nominal Rolls; Australian War Memorial - Researching Australians in the Great War
This video on researching the nominal roles of the AWM is provided by the Shrine of Remembrance to assist students and the community to research Australian service personnel of the Great War.
AT RISK: First World War WW1 Memorial 1914 - 1918 Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent Magistrates
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Please donate to our Poppy Appeal and help transform Fenton into a town that's never forgotten again.
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Fenton Town Hall and the magnificent Great War Memorial contained within are under serious threat of demolition. Made from Minton tiles and 4m x 3m in dimension, the Great War Memorial remembers 498 men from Stoke-on-Trent who gallantly fell in service of their country. For many who were never recovered it is their grave.
The Town Hall, till recently The Magistrates' Courts has been put on the market by its owners, The Ministry of Justice, for £500,000. Your signature will help the community transform the building into an exciting venue which will make the Great War memorial accessible to all to appreciate for the first time in many decades, bring in jobs and growth whilst improving the profile of the local and wider community.
Worryingly, the memorial's size and weight precludes its relocation: it is deeply embedded into the very fabric of the building in a wall at the top of a flight of stairs. And neither the memorial nor the Town Hall is protected as a recent application for listing status was rejected. Consequently there could be severe repercussions for the hall, memorial and community should it fall into the wrong hands.
We ask you to sign this petition in requesting the Ministry of Justice put a hold on the sale of the building and listen to the community's ideas for the town hall; that way we have a chance of ensuring the preservation of this fabulous piece of heritage - wonderful to all, priceless to many.
For a copy of the high resolution video for distribution / broadcasting purposes please contact me at alangerrard@btconnect.com
Alan
Newcastle Battalion of WW1
Unveiling Ceremony in Authuille France for the memorial plaque and bench to the brave men from the 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers.
AWM 75, Part 4: The Opening of the Memorial
This series of videos marks the Australian War Memorial's 75th anniversary on 11 November 2016. Produced by Max Uechtritz, edited by Alan Green, and featuring the Memorial's Chief Historian, Ashley Ekins. This video features footage from the opening of the Memorial in Canberra on 11 November 1941, and the dioramas that can still be seen today in the Memorial's First World War Galleries.
A Long Walk From Anzac War Memorial to Harbour Bridge,Sydney Australia.
A long walk starting from Anzac War Memorial, Hyde Park through Royal Botanic Garden and passing by Opera House to End up on Harbour Bridge, Sydney Australia.
AWM 75, Part 2 - The Memorial's Collection
This series of videos marks the Australian War Memorial's 75th anniversary on 11 November 2016. Produced by Max Uechtritz, edited by Alan Green and featuring the Memorial's Chief Historian, Ashley Ekins. Part 2 looks at the beginning of the collection, and what the type of items that the Memorial continues to collect.
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Burwood Flag Restoration Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle NSW
In a dusty vault deep in the heart of the Newcastle Cathedral, an unsuspecting cardboard box sat forgotten for years.
But that box contained one of our most significant artefacts from World War I — Australia's first national flag.
Known as the Birdwood Flag, it was flown at the headquarters of General William Birdwood at the Western Front.
General Birdwood was in command of the Australian troops, who at the time were fighting for the Empire.
Our nation was only about 13-14 years old at the start of the first world war and the Union Jack, what we see as an English flag, was the main flag that our troops fought under, Patricia Gillard of the Birdwood Heritage Committee said.
But from 1917 on, our troops in Europe fought under a red Australian ensign and they were proud of it.
It was created by a group of [Newcastle] women led by Dora Sparke, who decided that the Australian troops should have an Australian ensign for the General to display and fly over his headquarters.
After the war, the flag returned to Newcastle Cathedral — which also was of the nation's earliest war memorials — where it hung for decades before disintegrating.
'It just looked like confetti'
It was thought to be lost forever, but a far-sighted dean had been quietly collecting the bits and storing them away safely, according to the then dean Stephen Williams.
Several years ago, Dean Williams stumbled across what looked like a pile of rubbish.
Eventually we emptied this vault out and discovered [the flag] here in the corner of the vault and it was in a bag within a bag inside a bag inside a box — just an ordinary cardboard box — and it just looked like confetti, Dean Williams said.
We're very, very fortunate that no-one had thrown it out.
The bag of confetti ended up in the hands of Julian Bickersteth in Sydney.
We've worked on lots of flags but never anything like [one in] this condition — this is a very complex job, he said.
Over 18 months, he and his team assembled the hundreds of pieces of silk like one would a jigsaw puzzle.
We had a lot of larger pieces, plus we had a lot of stitched edges, he said
You know how with a jigsaw puzzle you do the edge first? Same deal, except here we also have the stars and we have the Union Jack — so we had a lot of stitching that we could work from.
After hundreds of hours of work, the flag has now been restored.
It will was returned and rehallowed — declared holy by a bishop — at the Newcastle Cathedral on July 30 2017
Merchant Mariners Memorial
Maritime Union Of Australia MUA
During World War II the sea was the main transport route, bringing to Newcastle the raw materials needed by its industries and taking away the industries products, as well as Hunter coal. Japanese submariner operated along the east coast of Australia from 16 May to 3 August 1942 and 18 January to 16 June 1943.
They sank 18 vessels and attacked another 15, killing 277 merchant mariners and 223 medical personnel, as well as attacking Sydney and Newcastle. In 1940-41 German mines sunk 4 vessels, killing 16, and a German submarine sank a vessel in 1944, killing 2.
14 men from Newcastle were among 23 lost when Iron Crown, en route from Whyalla to Port Kembla, was sunk by submarine I-27 on 4 June 1942; earlier it had damaged Barwon. On 22 July 1942 Allara was damaged by enemy action.
It was repaired in Newcastle but 5 fatalities of that action are buried in Sandgate General Cemetery. Submarine I-21 which sunk Iron Knight had previously sunk Kalingo on 18 January 1943.
Produced by Jamie McMechan Maritime Union of Australia Film Unit.
Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)
Australian Services Union (ASU)
Australian Workers Union (AWU)
Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union (CFMEU)
Electrical Trades Union (ETU)
Maritime Union Of Australia (MUA)
Public Service Association of NSW (PSA)
Unions NSW (Unions NSW)
Australian Council Of Trade Union (ACTU)
International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Storming Hamel
Features the Bear Mcreary Battlestar Galactica OST track 'Storming New Caprica, overlaid with images from the Battle of Hamel and the conflict on the Western Front of WW1
Paul Keating remembrance service: A great war devoid of any virtue
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The Memorial at Shepherds Hill Radio Station in Newcastle,
When Susana and I went exploring recently, we came across the Shepherds Hill Radio Station. It was the first radio station established in Australia and used during the second world war.
However, something odd was on the fence nearby. On it are a number of inscriptions and memorials to individuals. Some are clearly references to suicides. Some don't seem to fit in.
It was quite odd and a bit saddening when you see some of the young ages of the individual's that died at the cliff.
SHIPWRECKED. HMQS Gayundah (2018)
SHIPWRECKED
HMQS Gayundah
2018
The remains of the HMQS Gayundah can be seen at the base of the Woody Point cliffs on the Redcliffe Peninsula.
About the HMQS Gayundah
The gunboat, said to be named after an Aboriginal word for lightning, was the first of Queensland's projected Navy. She was built for the Queensland Government by Sir William Armstrong Mitchell and Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne, at a cost of 35,000 pounds.
As a twin screw-drive vessel (powered by two horizontal direct action compound steam engines) the Gayundah was designed for a maximum speed of 10 knots with the ability to a transport up to 75 tonnes of coal, allowing her to travel up to 1300 kilometres at a time.
Working History of the HMQS Gayundah
The Gayundah arrived in Brisbane on 27th March 1885. Her chief duty was the protection of the Queensland coastline and the vessel was fitted out with a 6 inch Armstrong gun protruding over the stern, an 8 inch breech loading 12-tonne gun, and 2 Nordenfeldt guns on the forecastle.
After Federation in 1902, the Gayundah was retained by the Australian Navy and used as a training ship. In the early 1900s, she made history by being the first warship in Australia to operate wireless telegraphy successfully.
Gayundah - Life after the Australian Navy
A structurally altered Gayundah acted as a guard-ship and patrol vessel during World War 1. She was sold in 1921 to Brisbane Gravel Pty Ltd and used as a sand and gravel barge on the Brisbane River. In 1958, Redcliffe Town Council (now Moreton Bay Regional Council) purchased the Gayundah and beached her in her current location to serve as a breakwater.
Today there is some debate as to whether the shipwreck has deteriorated to a point of being a danger, with the bow of the ship collapsing in late 2016.
Until the time it is dismantled, it will continue to be a popular destination for tourism and the subject of many selfies #visitmoretonbayregion
Don't Despair there is still some of the Gayundah to see in Original Condition!
If your travelling to the Australian Capital, be sure to drop into Canberra's Australian War Memorial. Located in the parklands around the Memorial's main buildings proudly stands the one and only 6 inch BL Gun from HMQS Gayundah.
Also on display inside the Australian War Memorial’s Colonial Galleries is a model of HMQS Gayundah (RELAWM07944.002). This model was acquired from Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd. in 1925 - it represents the Gayundah in its colonial colours.
Want to Learn more about the Gayundah's History?
The best source of information on the gunboat's fascinating history can be found on the Australian Navy website. The site includes images of the Gayunda and crew during her service in the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, along with photos of her being dry-docked in 1914 to receive a new bow.
Here are some Quick HMQS Gayundah Facts
Class: Gunboat Class
Launched: 13 May 1884
Commissioned: 26 September 1884
Decommissioned: 23 August 1918
Dimensions & Displacement
Displacement: 360 tons
Length: 120 feet (36 meters)
Beam: 26 feet
Draught: 9 feet 6 inches
Performance
Speed: 10.5 knots
Range: 700-800 miles (1300 kilometres)
Complement
Crew: 55
Propulsion
Machinery: Horizontal direct action compound steam engines, twin screw-drives.
Horsepower: 400
Armament
1 x 8-inch BL 12-ton gun
1 x 6-inch BL 4-ton gun
2 x 1.5-inch Nordenfelt guns
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Canberra Trip 2016
We went to the nation's capital Canberra visiting Parliament House, National Museum, War Memorial, Boundless Playground, Commonwealth Park, National Capital Exhibition and The Canberra Reptile Zoo.
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Beautiful War Memorial (1924)
Lancashire.
Title: Beautiful War Memorial - unveiled at St. Annes-on-Sea in presence of Mr. Stephen Walsh.
M/S of Walsh and senior army officers walking slowly past a crowd of people. L/S of a tall and modernist memorial with a statue on top of a woman with her arms outstretched, tilt down to show a Union Jack covering the base of the statue, a large crowd watch as the flag drops from the memorial.
M/S, looking over the heads of the crowd, of Walsh standing between a man in mayoral chains and a man in a clerical wig, they are standing in silence beneath the memorial. M/S of the mayor laying a large wreath with the help of two men on the memorial. M/S of a group of children - mainly little girls - walking past carrying bouquets of flowers. M/S of children laying flowers at the base of the memorial.
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Dawn Service at AWM, 25 April 2005, 90th anniversary. The Australian
War Memorial at the base of Mount Ainslie. Looking along Anzac Parade
to the War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie. Towards the entrance
of the Hall of Memory, from within. Detail of the dome from inside the
Hall of Memory. Memorial Courtyard. Menin Gate at midnight by Will
Longstaff (1927). The list of fallen servicemen during WWII held at the
Australian War Memorial. Kangaroos standing before naval gun turret.
The domed structure in the background is the Hall of Memory.