Stockton (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Item
Shipping at Stockton, Newcastle District, 1908
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/21
Scope and Contents
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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Cambridge University Library
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New South Wales, 1908