Lost Newcastle - Carol Duncan

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Lost Newcastle - Carol Duncan Podcast

Hello! I’m Carol Duncan - and welcome to the Lost Newcastle podcast. With more than 70,000 members, Lost Newcastle has become the online meeting place for generations of Novocastrians, sharing photos, stories, finding lost friends and loved ones, and learning plenty of new things about this place we call home.

  1. EPISODE 157

    The Wallis Album - Carol Duncan & Dr Alex Byrne, NSW State Librarian

    The Wallis Album   After 194 years, a previously unknown album of drawings from 1818, including landscapes and portraits of Aboriginal people from the Newcastle region, returned to Newcastle for a brief exhibition by the State Library of NSW.   In this episode, Carol Duncan speaks with Dr Alex Byrne, the NSW State Librarian and Chief Executive, about the significance of the album.   [Recorded 2012]

    6 min

  2. EPISODE 174

    Newcastle East Public School

    Newcastle East Public School is the oldest continuously operating school in Australia having started in 1816.

    21 min

  3. EPISODE 175

    Newcastle Obelisk

    The Obelisk in Newcastle stands on the site of the first windmill in the town which was built in 1820 to grind flour. The windmill itself became an important early navigational aid.

    13 min

  4. EPISODE 180

    Victoria Theatre

    Carol Duncan visits Newcastle's historic Victoria Theatre. Built in the 1870s, the Victoria Theatre on Perkins Street in Newcastle is the oldest theatre still standing in NSW. It's also home to the largest and earliest surviving fly tower in Australia. Now closed to the public, what remains is an extraordinarily intact theatre - just waiting for its next life.

    15 min

  5. EPISODE 181

    Tony Robinson on the importance of our heritage

    28 February, 2012 3:02PM AEDT Learning history with Tony Robinson By Carol Duncan (Presenter - 1233 ABC Newcastle)   Tony Robinson talks about how to encourage a community to care about its history.   Tony Robinson is perhaps best known to an older generation of television viewer as Baldrick from Blackadder, but to younger generations he's known as the guy leading archaeological digs on Time Team or the poor unfortunate host up to his knees in a tank of urine in Worst Jobs In History (that story was about tanning hides for leather).   In December, 2011, Tony was filming in Australia for his series Tony Robinson's Time Walks in which he visits cities to reveal their history.   Carol Duncan caught up with him in Cathedral Park, what was Newcastle's first burial ground at Christ Church Cathedral  to find out how we can continue to encourage people to care about their local history.

    7 min
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Hello! I’m Carol Duncan - and welcome to the Lost Newcastle podcast. With more than 70,000 members, Lost Newcastle has become the online meeting place for generations of Novocastrians, sharing photos, stories, finding lost friends and loved ones, and learning plenty of new things about this place we call home.

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