You can all keep dreaming. New England is fantastic, quiet and has no noticeable humidity. Take that you coastal plebs, enjoy the congestion and pollution and don't come knocking when the sea invades the lowlands.
Would we have to worry about marauding Beetrooters roaming the landscape?You can all keep dreaming. New England is fantastic, quiet and has no noticeable humidity. Take that you coastal plebs, enjoy the congestion and pollution and don't come knocking when the sea invades the lowlands.
Nice fleet of hearses.A quick look at Newcastle papers showed that Wood Coffill moved to Darby St in 1936. Prior to that they were in Pacific St.
There's a problem with 810 George St Sydney too (see ad above). That address is currently next to Christ Church in George St and isn't a corner block. The photo above is opposite (odd numbers) at the corner of Valentine St but isn't a match as Shibuichi notes.. Perhaps numbers have changed.
This photo from the same collection gives a better view of the building
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I found an address.The detective in me leads me to the cnr. of Kings and Darby streets Newcastle and the base building is still there. Can any local Novacastrians confirm?
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Yes quite right it was right next door to the pub..I found an address.
19 Darby was W&C with the building having a second frontage at 26 King. It butted up along the back wall of this pub on the corner.
Newcastle Darby St is not the Renault building. Earlier Pacific address perhaps?
Good photo and a good find. I've been chasing a photo of a Peugeot ambulance donated by a Toorak matron in 1914 but without success. The AWM doesn't have a specialist curator for early machinery. There are lots of military history and military vehicle enthusiast people about online. The AWM has a large amount of material available online for the WW1 period. Combine with the now rare and expensive battalion histories and Bean's multi volume history and you can turn up quite a lot. I turned up twenty pages on a request from an old lady for more information on her uncle who died at Pozieres. Sad thing was I realised I knew more about his fate than the army ever told his parents.