Welcome to Lost Newcastle

The ‘Pasha Bulker’ Storm – June 2007
The 2007 Newcastle storms and floods caused over $1.6 billion in damage, thousands of homes ...

Leading Light or Beacon Towers
Newcastle has its very own castle turret on top of The Hill in the form of the Leading Light ...

Vera Deacon OAM | 1926 – 2021
In 2020, Vera was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to community history ...

The Wallis Album
In 2012, a previously unknown album of drawings from 1818, including landscapes and portraits ...

Palo Alto – Hamilton
Hamilton's Palo Alto is a piece of Art Deco bliss built for Mr William Herbert of Silsoe ...

A Russian Visit
Newcastle may once have been concerned that the Russians were coming … but this news ...

Newcastle Rocket Brigade

Cathedral Park – Resting in Pieces
No human remains were removed from Cathedral Park, and indeed there were by that time less ...

The Star Hotel
The Star Hotel is best known for the 1979 riot, but the site is a large complex running ...

The Wreck of the Adolphe
The French barque Adolphe is just one of many shipwrecks that litter the entrance to Newcastle ...

Memorial Drive Tunnel
One of Newcastle's many hidden places, not open to the public, is a remnant of the Shepherds ...

St John’s Anglican Church – Cooks Hill
Designed by Edmund Blacket and constructed between 1857 and 1860, St John's Anglican Church in ...