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Wallsend is a western suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Newcastle's central business district. It is split between the local government areas of City of Newcastle and City of Lake Macquarie .
5 January 1863 is Sydney's first recorded 40 °C (104 °F) day, when the mercury hit 41.6 °C (106.9 °F) at Sydney's Observatory Hill. [11]During January 1896, a state wide heatwave blasted through NSW and caused the mercury in Sydney to hit 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) on the 6th and 42.5 °C (108.5 °F) on the 13th, this ended Sydney's longest streak of days under 40.0 °C (104.0 °F) which lasted ...
Large projects related to the coal industry helped to propel the Newcastle unemployment rate to 20 year lows and allow the Newcastle region to weather the effects of the late 2000s recession better than NSW as a whole. [49] As of 2009, the two largest single employers are the Hunter New England Area Health Service and the University of ...
Cameron Park is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area, Greater Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, located 16 kilometres (10 mi) west of Newcastle's central business district near West Wallsend and the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway.
Elermore Vale Public School and Wallsend South public school. The Elermore Hotel was the starting and finishing point for the annual Shaft Shuffle Fun Run, organised by the Elermore Vale Lions. [7] [clarification needed] In 2016 the median age of resident was 40, 81.5% were born in Australia and 84.9% only spoke English at home. [8]
The altitude, frequent fog & cloud, storms and cold weather (causing icing) make this area potentially hazardous to aircraft. One article refers to the "Devil's Triangle". 16 April 1945 – De Havilland Mosquito A52-70. Wreckage found January 1946 in the national park. [10] [11]
Edgeworth was originally known as Cocked Hat Creek in the 1870s and early 1880s. It was renamed to Young Wallsend in 1885. [3] The Young Wallsend Coal Company opened a colliery in 1890. [4] The colliery ceased operations in the early 1900s, and the site was bulldozed in 1992 to build a housing estate. [5]
West Wallsend's origins are in coal mining, the main concern being West Wallsend Colliery, from whose boundaries the old town grew. The West Wallsend Coal Company was formed in 1885 with a capital of £90,000 sterling. It secured 2,972 acres (12.03 km 2) of freehold land at and around where the township now stands. A shaft of 492 feet (150.0 m ...