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Stockton (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Shipping at Stockton, Newcastle District, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/21
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A view of moored sailing ships, tied three deep to the shore. Stockton lies just north of Newcastle, on a peninsula the other side of the Hunter River. Like Newcastle it is an important coal producer; in the early days of the colony, the worst convicts from Newcastle were sent to Stockton as lime-burners.

Dates: 1908
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