The Walsh Island Dockyard and Engineering Works was established in 1913 at Walsh Island on the Hunter River and by the early 1920s was the centre of Newcastle’s shipbuilding and engineering industr

A newsreel segment about a 1920 surf carnival in Newcastle. 300 members of leading Sydney Surf Clubs compete in an annual surf carnival.

There’s more to Newcastle than coal mining and steel.

On 28 December 1989 a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Newcastle killing 13 people, hospitalising a further 160 and causing an estimated 4 billion dollars’ worth of damage to 35,000 homes, 147

This 1924 gramophone recording of W Rimmer’s ‘Honest Toil March’ was recorded in London, performed by the Australian Newcastle Steelworks Band.

Summary by Matthew Davies

This roller skating footage features the St. Moritz Skaters - choreographed sequences are performed by June and Dick Evans followed by Roderick Cowden and Vera Cowden (nee Paravicini).

This home movie footage features Leo Jensen, an Australian heavy weight wrestling champion based in Newcastle, NSW.

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The National Film Board 1945. Directed by Shan Benson. This is the story of a city built on coal.

While the closure of BHP’s Newcastle steel-making plant in the late 1990s signalled the end of an era, Newcastle was starting to be seen by the rest of the country as abou

From The Film Australia Collection. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1959. Directed by Richard Mason.