When fisherman Richard Parker acquired a block of bushland near Lake Macquarie, about 1895, there were two tools in his kit that would be essential for clearing the land and building a simple house – his axe, and this pit saw. The house Parker built at 85 Docker Street (now known as Haddon Crescent), Marks […]
Drawn up in 1901, 1914 and 1920, these land subdivision sale posters from Toronto, Lake Macquarie, illustrate small pieces of what was essentially an enormous jigsaw puzzle. Named the Toronto Estate, the ‘puzzle’ had been created in 1885-7, when the attractive lakeside land was first divided and auctioned by the Excelsior Land Investment and Building […]
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