Late last year a old register containing a further treasure trove of scientific climate data was unearthed.
The register, belonging to leading New England pastoralist, meteorologist and astronomer Algernon Henry Belfield (1838-1922), brings to a conclusion the climate records meticulously collected at his observatory and weather recording facilities at Eversleigh Station over a period of 45 years.
The work is a testament to Algernon Belfield’s dedication to the collection of scientific climate data, and his love for the elements, the final record was taken on the 2 July 1922, only weeks before he died on the Saturday 5th August 1922.
Richard, his grandson, relates that on the Wednesday prior to his death, he had collected his mail, which was a buggy trip to Dumaresq Railway Station with his fox terrier, coming home he complained to one of his boys that he was feeling a little weary and retired to his room at Eversleigh. He passed away early Saturday morning, buried on the Sunday, therefore not disrupting the working week. An efficient man to the end.
Eversleigh Homestead
The Register was digitised by William Oates at the University of New England, and uploaded into a single PDF file by the University of Newcastle’s Cultural Collections. You can download the entire Register as a single PDF here:
“A Gentleman researcher in 19th century New England”
28th February 2012
On the 28th February 2012 the University of New England (UNE) Alumni presented a public lecture on meteorologist, astronomer and pastoralist Algernon Henry Belfield entitled “A Gentleman researcher in 19th century New England”.
Professor Howard Bridgman (centre) holds one of Algernon Belfield's Climate records with Mr William Oates (left) and Richard Belfield (right)
The public lecture featured presentations from Mr Bill Oates, UNE University Archivist, Mr Richard Belfield, grandson of Algernon, and donor of the Belfield Climate Archives, and Professor Howard Bridgman, from the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle.
The lecture was held in the Main Seminar Room Drummond and Smith College.
Richard Belfield pictured viewing his grandfather Algernon Belfield's climate records
Day Shift – 15/11/2011 – 02:10 PM – forthcoming
Presenter: Carol Duncan
Interviewee: Gionni Di Gravio, Archivist, Newcastle University
University of Newcastle Archivist Gionni Di Gravio discusses the recent digitisation of the Athel D’Ombrain Collection comprising of over 2,500 negatives, and talks about his life and extraordinary contribution to the Hunter Region.
Broadcast Notes:
The Athel D’Ombrain Collection was deposited with the University of Newcastle Archives in 1982.
The following notes are from an 1981 article in the University News entitled “University Post” (Vol. 7 No. 12 July 1981 p.[3]) supplemented with further notes from a variety of websites. He left an incredible and varied legacy in the wider Regional community. These photographs are an outstanding document of his life’s work and contribution to the natural world, history, architecture, science and art. They document many historical buildings throughout the Hunter Region, prior to restoration. They also document buildings and structures no longer extant.
The negatives were digitised by Sharon Mee and Michael Sherriff, and both should be congratulated for scanning the two and a half thousand odd negatives that are very challenging to handle. Sharon is currently uploading the negatives to our flickr site here:
Athel D’Ombrain A.M. (1901-1985) was a photographer, optician, naturalist, author, cricketer, pioneer angler, game fisherman and historian.
He was born in Casterton in the Western District of Victoria in 1901. His father, a general practitioner, was one of the pioneer ornithologists of Australia, and had helped in the formation of the Royal Australian Ornithologists’ Union. It was through his father, and the excursions they shared together, that Athel learnt about the natural world. His interest was further developed by living on the north shore in Sydney at a time when the suburb was sparsly settled and a fine place in which to study birds and animals.
He attended Shore College, Sydney between 1913-18. After being educated at Shore, and realising that his interests were not academic, he later studied agriculture at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, and worked on the land at Somersby, garnering much success as a citrus-grower. He was part winner of a Wembly Medal and winner of several prizes in local citrus shows.
Athel had also studied optometry and when his brother, Arthur, an opthalmic surgeon, said he should move to Maitland and work with him as a manufacturing optician he said he would. In 1929 he moved to Maitland to work as an optical dispenser at his brother’s practice, and for over 20 years was associated with his brother in Maitland, and later for some years in Newcastle.
Athel was a well respected cricketer with the Northern Suburbs Cricket Club. Known as ‘Dorn’ to his fellow cricketers, his first A Grade season (1929-1930) marked the beginning of an association with the Club that would last over fifty years.
Besides playing, he was also served as Secretary from 1930-36, and later conducted Coaching Classes. In recognition of his long playing and administrative services, he was made a Life Member of the Club in the early sixties and Patron from 1968.
In 1934 he, along with Wallace Fitness, approached the secretary of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association Show Society, asking whether they could display some local photographs in the Fine Arts Pavilion at the 1934 annual Maitland Show. The request was accepted, and so was founded the Maitland Salon of Photography. In 1946 Maitland Salon became an Australian Photographic Society approved Salon and then in 1958 became an International Salon with approval from the Photographic Society of America and finally in 1982 the federation International De L’ Art Photographique granted its patronage.
In February 1936, he married Esma Drew, of Clarencetown, by whom he had a son, Robin, who later became a Technical Officer in Chemical Engineering. Esma died in May 1980.
Around 1950 Athel retired from optometry and became a photographer for The Maitland Mercury. After the 1955 flood hit his home he left the newspaper and established a commercial photographic business in Maitland. Concurrent with these activities he was a “photo-finish operator” at the Maitland Showground and a stringer cameraman.
Through the efforts of Athel and Newman Silverthorne, the Newcastle and Port Stephens Game Fish Club was formed with Headquarters at Bundabah on the northern side of the Port. In 1935 the fishing enthusiasts built a clubhouse at Shoal Bay. “There was not one house at the bay at this time – nothing but bush”, he says. The Fish Club was taken over by the Army in the Second World War, following which it was incorporated into the Country Club Hotel. He was renown as a pioneer angler who adopted a scientific approach to the sport and who was very successful in the post war years. He is credited with devising the now widely accepted tag and release concept for big game fishes, commencing his first experiments in 1938.
Athel was an expert naturalist especially on Port Stephens and its flora and fauna. For example, he visited Cabbage Tree Island regularly for 44 years observing and banding the sea bird called Gould’s Petrel. The island is the only known nesting place of the species.
He also enjoyed looking at the birds in the wetlands at Hexham as he travelled between Maitland and Newcastle in the train. Previously he had contributed several articles to the Newcastle Morning Herald. In 1965 he wrote a piece about the birds at Hexham, which came under the notice of the Herald’s Editor at the time, Mr E.K. Lingard, who liked the story so much he asked Athel to write a weekly column. For some time he became a Saturday correspondent for The Herald. He also authored a number of published books, ‘Game Fishing Off the Australian Coast’ and ‘Fish Tales’, and an unpublished account of Gould’s Petrel, called ‘North East of Toomaree’, and an unpublished autobiography
His newspaper articles and books contributed a great deal to the unfolding of the wonders of nature. Moreover, he was continually identifying specimens found in the bush and backyards for individuals.
On the 9 June 1975, in recognition of his service to photography and the study of nature, he was awarded Member of the Order of Australia.
In 1981 he was invited to become a Convocation Visiting Scholar at the University of Newcastle, the third to hold the position since its inception in 1977.
As a result of his photographic work over many years, he amassed a monumental collection of photographs relating to the Hunter Valley. One of his roles as Convocation Visiting Scholar was to work in association with Denis Rowe (University Archivist) in the Archives in the Auchmuty Library, cataloguing his photographs and organising the articles about nature that he had written for the Newcastle Herald.
He continued to write his columns up until a few months prior to his death at age 83 in 1985. According to his son, Mr Robin D’Ombrain, he wrote a total of 995 articles for the Newcastle Herald.
He was a member of the Royal Australian Orthnologist’s Union, an Associate of the Australian Museum and a Member of the Order of Australia.
The University News / UniNews Archive is now online!
We have now digitised virtually all the extant issues of The University News, later renamed UniNews and made them available at our Libguides site. If you were a staff member or student in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s or ’00s, you can enjoy revisiting events, and reminiscing over past times.
The Josiah Cocking Diaries spanning the years 1884-1960 have been place online through the Radical Newcastle Project.
Josiah Cocking was born on the 11th May 1867 at Kadina in South Australia and died on the 27th July 1960 aged 93 at Mayfield, New South Wales.
Mr Cocking was a miner and part of the early socialist and free-thought movement of Newcastle.
He lived for a time in Wallsend and Mayfield, and wrote much verse for the local papers of the time under such pseudonyms as “Dandelion” and “Capsicum”.
For a greater insight on the life and character of Josiah Cocking please view his biography in typescript (1.73Mb PDF file) or (496kB OCR PDF file) written by his son, Mr Arthur James Cocking (1916 – 1989).
The diaries and notebook papers of Mr Josiah Cocking were deposited in the Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections Unit (now Cultural Collections) of the University of Newcastle in November 1999 by Mr Keith Cocking. The shelf listing was completed on the 3rd March 2000 by Gionni di Gravio.
The above early photograph shows Josiah with his wife Mary Jane. In his biography of his father the late Mr Arthur James Cocking dedicated it to his
Mum (nee Mary Jane Anderson) who married him, variously tolerated him,
supported him, opposed him, cajoled him, coerced him, nursed him but steadfastly loved
him and bore him 8 children.
Historic climate data never before used by researchers may provide the key to helping communities better prepare for extreme weather events, such as the recent Queensland floods.
The data, collected between 1877 and 1907, by a New England pastoralist, will be used by University of Newcastle researchers to map the future climate of the region.
“The Bureau of Meteorology did not start collecting detailed, official climate data in the New England area until 1961,” University meteorologist Martin Babakhan said.
Sample page from the 1882 Meteorological Observing Book
“This data could be applied to create an early warning system to help climatologists and meteorologists better predict the extreme weather events that we have seen across Australia in the last six to 12 months.
“The information is extremely detailed and will help fill significant gaps in knowledge, and when applied to computerised climate modelling, will help us better predict climate and weather events in that region.”
The research will help predict adverse and beneficial climate events for the agriculture industry, as well as for planning, development and business investment in rural and regional areas.
“Climate management is all about knowledge. With this information we can understand why and how our climate is changing and the likely impacts, which are vital to better understand the climate of tomorrow,” Mr Babakhan said.
Sample page from Belfield's 1877 Meteorological Observing Book
Sample page from Belfield's 1877 Meteorological Observation Book
The climate data, collected by astronomer and meteorologist Algernon Henry Belfield at his Eversleigh Station in the New England region, has been donated to the University of Newcastle Cultural Collections and it is also being archived by the University of New England Heritage Centre.
Mr Richad Belfield, grandson of Algernon Belfield, examining his grandfather's records
“Most families on the land have detailed historic data about weather and climate that can be used by scientists to answer important questions about our climate,” Mr Babakhan said.
“It is important that they come forward with this information to help fill the gaps in knowledge and answer these vital questions about our nation’s future.”
Researchers, climate change believers and sceptics will attend a launch of the Mapping our Climate collection at the University of Newcastle, Cultural Collections, Level 2 Auchmuty Library, Callaghan, at 10am on Wednesday 9 March.
Meteorological Observing Book(s) for the Years 1877 – 1907
Compiled by Algernon Henry Belfield (1838-1922)
Eversleigh Station New England District
Linked from this page are optimised PDFs for the 27 extant Observing Books compiled by Algernon Henry Belfield on his Eversleigh Station in the New England District.
The original books were deposited in the Heritage Centre of the University of New England by Algernon Belfield’s grandson Mr Richard Belfield.
The original booklets were digitised for Cultural Collections, University of Newcastle by William Oates, University Archivist at the Heritage Centre University of New England.
NB: Meteorological Observing Books for 1879, 1880 and 1881 are missing.
NB: Each PDF file is around 14-16MB in size. So you might wish to right mouse click on the link and select ‘save link as’ to download the file to your computer.
On the 9th March 2011 a digital copy of important climate records dating from 1877 will be deposited with the University of Newcastle’s Cultural Collections.
Algernon Henry Belfield (1838-1922) arrived in Australia in 1855, and was an astronomer, meteorologist and pastoralist responsible to recording 30 years of meticulous weather data at his Eversleigh Station in the New England district.
The original journals date from 1877-1907 and were originally offered to University academic Mr Martin Babakhan to be deposited here. But after consideration of their place of origin the University Archivist recommended the records be housed closer to home at the Heritage Centre University of New England (UNE) at Armidale.
UNE have kindly provided us with a digital copy of the records, and Richard Belfield (grandson of Algernon Henry Belfield) will be travelling from Armidale to Newcastle to present the University with a digital copy of his grandfather’s climate records in person.
Martin Babakhan believes that there are other local pastoral families who may have in their custody similar climate records, and may be able to provide us with similar collections for ongoing research, thus enabling our climate and environmental researchers to comprehensively map our local climate data from the historical records.
All those interested in climate research are welcome to come along. Professor Tim Roberts, Director, Tom Farrell Institute for the Environment, Professor Howard Bridgman Conjoint Professor Editor, Air Quality and Climate Change, School of Environmental and Life Sciences and Mr Martin Babakhan from the Faculty of Science and Information Technology will speak on the day on the importance of such records to ongoing and future research.
When: Wednesday 9th March 2011 at 10 am
Where: Cultural Collections Level 2 Auchmuty Library
Pieces of an authentic British Airship of the First World War (Outer skin)
Day Shift – 21/09/2010 – 02:10 PM
Presenter: Carol Duncan
Interviewee: Gionni Di Gravio, Archivist, Newcastle University
As part of the Local Treasures show University of Newcastle Archivist Gionni Di Gravio brings in an authentic piece of a British Airship from the First World War from William Dalton (Dalton Family papers), and a book on Balloons from the Library of Professor Godfrey Tanner.
Broadcast Notes:
You find the most amazing objects in an Archive. Years ago I came across a piece of a British Airship which I Like to think was a Zeppelin. Like most things when you try to remember where you saw it, you can’t remember. Well, yesterday I found it again among the Dalton Family papers. In a correspondence file of letters to William Dalton (1897-1974) during the First World War was a folded blank form, “Report of Sighting Enemy’s Battlefleet”. In the folds it held three pieces of solid material. The note on the reverse of the form (in presumably William Dalton’s handwriting) said:
“This is the form that the airships use
for sending messages via carrier pidgeon
of which they carry about three.
The rubber fabric is what the envelope of
our patrol airships is made of.
Charlie gave me this. They have a R.N.A.S. man boarding there.
The outside of the ship is painted alluminium colour.
There is no inner envelope to hold the gas
this is the one and only envelope used.”
"Report of Sighting Enemy's Battlefleet"
William Dalton's description
Inner side of the Airship
Biographical note. William Dalton was 11th March 1897. According to Jack Dalton’s pamphlet entitled William Dalton of “Riversdale”, Scone [c1974] after studying at Newcastle’s first high school (known as the Hill School), William Dalton became an engineering apprentice with Morison and Bearby at Carrington, and attended the Technical College at night. He served with the Fortress Engineers at Nobbys prior to joining the A.I.F. in April 1917. He served two years in France. After the Armistice, and awaiting passage home, he worked for Kincaid’s shipbuilding works on the Clyde, Scotland.
After his discharge in December 1919 he began dairy farming with his brother Harry at Sandy Hollow. In May 1923 he married Anna May Gibson of Singleton and had two children Jack and Gwen. He sold his interest in the dairy farm to his brother and in 1934 bought ‘Riversdale’ near Scone, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1937 he began share wheat farming on ‘Nandowra’ which continued through the war years. In the sphere of community affairs he was instrumental in the formation of the Parkville Bushfire Brigade in 1944 and served as Honorary Secretary until 1970.
An active campaigner for the health of the local environment in 1946 he organised a planting of a Pioneer Memorial Drive at Parkville on Arbor Day, which led to the formation of the Parkville Progress Association to which he was foundation member and served as Vice President (1947-1949) and President (1950). He was also a member of the Upper Hunter Re-afforestation League and urged for the establishment of offices for the Soil Conservation Service and Forestry Commission in Scone.
In December 1947 he was elected to the Shire Council and campaigned for the formation of the Upper Hunter County Council, which became a reality on the 1st October 1953. Among his other achievements was the establishment of the Public Library, which was officially opened in July 1954 by the Governor of New South Wales Sir John Northcott. In April 1954 he resigned from Council.
He was a foundation member of The Hunter Valley Conservation Trust that was formed in 1950. In 1958, as part of the Trust’s work, the Barrington Tops Bush Fire Prevention Association was formed to create fire trails to prevent the destruction caused by bushfires in the area. He served as the Trust’s representative and Chairman from 1960 until 1965.
On the 21st March 1956 he convened the inaugural meeting of the Scone and Upper Hunter Historical Society, and was elected its first President, an office which he held until his retirement in 1969. He continued to be involved in the Society’s affairs and activities, and in 1973, along with Mr Wilfred Green, (the Society’s first Honorary Secretary) was unanimously elected as its first Honorary Members. Following his wife’s death on the 17th July 1971, his own health deteriorated and he died on the 22nd June 1974.
Mr colleague Dr Edward Bridle has a family connection with airships. He writes:
My grandmother, D.E. Cresswell, was an eyewitness to the first Zeppelin brought down over England during the Great War, in 1916. She was a young woman at the time, living in Ash Vale in Surrey (just across the county boundary from Aldershot, in Hampshire). The Zeppelin had been raiding to the north of London, but its destruction was visible for miles. It had been caught by a R.F.C. pilot at a height of 12,000 feet – almost higher than the aeroplanes of the time could manage – and set on fire by tracer bullets. It was coming down, afire from end to end – not plummeting, as an aeroplane would do, but falling slowly, as the burning hydrogen gas took away its lift – and the crowd where my grandmother was watching was cheering; then a woman’s voice was heard to say “There’s some poor mothers’ sons in that,” and from that moment on, they watched in dead silence.
Years later my grandfather, whose ship was in Rio at the time (this would be in 1930), sent her a letter by airmail. It was carried across the Atlantic by the famous airship Graf Zeppelin. (That letter is now in my possession).
To bring an even wider historical perspective, I’ve also brought in a beautiful treasure from the Tanner Collection on ‘Balloons’. It has some beautiful illustrations from the dawn of the ‘new vehicle’ of the Balloon which began on the 21st November 1783.
First Voyage 21st November 1783
1785-'Tour de Calais'
1803 - "La Minerve"
1817 - Ascension de Margat sur son Cerf Aeronaute Coco
Day Shift – 18/05/2010 – 02:10 PM
Presenter: Carol Duncan
Interviewee: Gionni Di Gravio, Archivist, Newcastle University
University of Newcastle Archivist Gionni Di Gravio discusses the new forthcoming exhibition of Natural History Illustration works, surveying reports and early Newcastle Panoramas on display at the University of Newcastle’s Cultural Collections in the Auchmuty Library. This is a rich physical and online display of the University’s engaged interdisciplinary research highlighting the historic natural beauty of the Novocastrian landscape.
Broadcast Notes:
Back in September 2008 a manuscript came to light in the State Library of New South Wales containing the first recorded mention of the Aboriginal name of Nobbys as ‘Whibayganba’. In addition, the 1828 field book of Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor General, contained three sketches of Newcastle drawn from the top of Fort Scratchley looking towards Nobbys, then looking towards Prospect Hill (Now Obelisk Hill), then another taken from the top of the Windmill (now Obelisk Hill) looking back towards Newcastle. These three important sketches are reproduced here:
At the time, the Coal River Working Party immediately enlisted the assistance of Emeritus Professor John Fryer in Surveying to ask whether he could examine the survey readings and compare them with those of Australian Agricultural Company surveyor John Armstrong Survey in 1830.
We believed that this Field book would also be of interest to art historians wanting to compare the actual perspective readings with the colonial art portrayals of the township. So we also asked Dr Anne Llewellyn whether her Natural History Illustration students would be interested in ‘colouring’ Mitchell’s sketches and bring them to life.
This was a perfect opportunity to spark an interdisciplinary ‘science meets the arts’ research approach to these important historical works.
Professor Fryer asked two final Surveying Students to examine Sir Thomas Mitchell’s sketches and survey readings in order to decipher them into lay person’s terms. After a year’s work those two final year students, Mr Chris Towers and Troy Sumner, prepared a report on their findings which they presented at two seminars held on Friday 6 November 2009 (to their Surveying Colleagues), (see the following three You Tube videos from the Presentation – unfortunately we did not capture the whole seminar):
and then at a meeting of the Coal River Working Party on the 7 December 2009. (This is an edited version with the second half of the Presentation and Questions):
Dr Anne Llewellyn’s 2nd Year Natural History Illustration students researched the content of Mitchell’s sketches and together with field observations, developed a ‘reconstruction’ of Mitchell’s drawings based on the ‘now known’ plants and animals of the region. Here is a video from their Presentation before the Coal River Working Party on the 7 December 2009, and a selection of their beautiful art works with some details.
The Work of Sir Thomas Mitchell examined and analysed by University of Newcastle Surveying Students Chris Towers and Troy Sumner
The Full Report and Summary prepared by Chris Towers and Troy Sumner of the University of Newcastle’ Discipline of Civil, Surveying & Environmental Engineering for the Coal River Working Party was placed on the Coal River blog here:
Then; Newcastle in 1828 from Signal Hill (now Fort Scratchley) by Sir Thomas Mitchell
2009
Fort Scratchley Panorama by Chris Towers
1828
Then: Newcastle from the Windmill (now Obelisk Hill) (1828) by Sir Thomas Mitchell
2009
Obelisk Panorama by Chris Towers
NEWCASTLE’S BEAUTIFUL ARTISTIC LEGACY
To celebrate the achievements of this work, the University of Newcastle’s Cultural Collections in the Auchmuty Library has prepared an exhibition of the student’s artworks, as well as a collection of reproductions of Newcastle painted panoramas from various stages in its history, including the Mitchell 1828 sketches, to be displayed. Some of the Panoramas below have never been seen before.
T.R. Browne (1812)
T.R. Browne (1812)
Browne, T.R. (1776 – 1824). Newcastle, in New South Wales, with a distant view of Point Stephen,1812 and
View of Hunters River, near Newcastle, New South Wales, 1812. Copper Engraving.
Photographer: Bruce Turnbull. Courtesy Newcastle Region Art Gallery.
Sophia Campbell/Edward Charles Close – Newcastle 1818
Sophia Campbell/Edward Charles Close (1818)
Campbell, Sophia, 1777-1833. Sophia Campbell Sketchbook 1818
Currently attributed to Edward Charles Close. Courtesy National Library of Australia.
Sophia Campbell / Edward Charles Close (1821)
Sophia Campbell/Edward Charles Close (1821)
Panorama of Newcastle 1821. Panorama of Newcastle : watercolour drawings by Edward Close – Sophia Campbell.
Courtesy State Library of New South Wales.
Sophia Campbell/Edward Charles Close (c1825)
Sophia Campbell/Edward Charles Close (c1825)
The Panorama above is constituted of the following paintings in Sketchbook of scenes of Sydney, Broken Bay, Newcastle and region, New South Wales, 1817-1840, (Courtesy of the National Library of Australia) once attributed to Sophia Campbell, now Edward Charles Close, 1790-1866 (Thanks to Mark Metrikas for identifying this find) The individual paintings that make up this Panorama from the Sketchbook are listed in order from left to right: (1) Commandant’s house from in front of the old gaol, Newcastle, New South Wales, ca. 1828 [picture] (2) Dwellings, fenced land and the windmill on the hill, Newcastle, New South Wales, ca. 1820 [picture] (3) Barracks with Christ Church in the distance, Newcastle, New South Wales, ca. 1820 [picture] (4) Dwellings and buildings in Newcastle, New South Wales, ca. 1820 (5) View over buildings towards the signal mast and Nobby Head, Newcastle, New South Wales, ca. 1820.
John Rae (1849)
John Rae (1849)
Rae, John, 1813-1900. Newcastle in 1849.
Courtesy State Library of New South Wales.
William Keene (1854)
William Keene (1854)
William Keene (Examiner of Coal Mines)
Copy of Stratigraphic sketch from Nobby’s Island Newcastle to Burwood, showing coal seams and their Order of Superposition. 31 May 1854.
Photographed by Bruce Turnbull. Archives Authority Map No. SZ325 (Courtesy State Archives of NSW)
John Rae – Photograph (c1880)
John Rae (c.1880)
Rae, John, 1813-1900. [Panoramic photograph of Newcastle, 1878-1882, possibly taken from Jesmond House] — 4 albumen photoprints
from Sketches in New South Wales in the olden time 1842 – 1859 by John Rae, M.A. / album of watercolour panoramas and photographs of watercolour sketches.
Courtesy State Library of New South Wales.
On behalf of the University’s Cultural Collections (Auchmuty Library) and the Coal River Working Party we congratulate Emeritus Professor John Fryer, Dr Anne Llewellyn and their students for their work, and the wonderful new insights it has brought to the study of our history and artistic legacy.
Due to popular demand and to celebrate Easter 2010 we present ‘Edward Bridle – The Man Behind the Suit’. This was a student film profile of Dr Edward Bridle, Project Archivist at the Archives of the University of Newcastle Australia.
It was the brainchild of director Katherine Jones Torres. Producer Shevaun O’Neill. Camera – Andrew Kable.
The premiere screening took place as part of ‘Docu-mental 2004′ at the McMullin Theatre, Friday the 11th June 2004.
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![Fireplace, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6297173709_4032754cd4_s.jpg)
![Swallows nest in one of the smaller rooms, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6230/6297704156_de48fb184a_s.jpg)
![Pre-Restoration, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6045/6297174225_07e6b963da_s.jpg)
![Windows - pre-restoration, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6092/6297704654_435ee69628_s.jpg)
![White-ant damage, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6231/6297174653_a602b87c2a_s.jpg)
![Damage to rear chimney, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6212/6297705130_f0ffefcd53_s.jpg)
![Damage to rear chimney, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106/6297705430_936edb817c_s.jpg)
![Columns and water tanks, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6215/6297175277_ab19310413_s.jpg)
![Columns and water tanks, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6040/6297175457_0da655d664_s.jpg)
![Pre-Restoration, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6050/6297705908_25d2d1f3f4_s.jpg)
![Stages of interior restoration, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6099/6297706034_8070aacffe_s.jpg)
![Stages of interior restoration, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6219/6297706284_ed08415290_s.jpg)
![Stages of interior restoration, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6039/6297176295_5c9509c7c3_s.jpg)
![Stages of interior restoration, Pre-Restoration photographs to record the condition of the building, Aberglasslyn House, Aberglasslyn, NSW, Australia [1978]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6237/6297706876_5492ccf15c_s.jpg)
![Anambah, Maitland, NSW, Australia [1964]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6041/6297710746_c7a55052e6_s.jpg)
![Statue on stairway, Anambah, Maitland, NSW, Australia [1964]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6232/6297710938_c6008d283f_s.jpg)
![Ironwork from the roof, Anambah, Maitland, NSW, Australia [1964]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6058/6297180851_670d270a5a_s.jpg)
![Brough House, Church, West Maitland [as it was when it was the Girls' High School Hostel, before alteration], NSW, Australia - May [1979?]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6220/6297187015_0527d80558_s.jpg)
