FITZROY STREET FERN STREET YOUNG STREET COWPER STREET COAL ST WILSON STREET DENISON STREET MAITLAND ROAD HUDSON STREET E ALBERT STREET US HO T DONALD STREET H IG L & GREENWAY STREET S Y B B O N O CLEARY STREET T CHURCH STREET SWAN STREET Moderate LINDSAY STREET WALKING Trail 2hrs 30min / 4.4km THROSBY STREET Newcastle/Stockton Newcastle Harbour Ferry RAILWAY STREET SAMDON STREET LINDUS STREET JAMES STREET BREAKWALL CAMERON STREET TUDOR ST Nobbys BISHOPGATE STREET Beach WHARF ROAD DIXON STREET ELCHO STREET NEWCASTLE BRIDGE STREET MILTON STREET WILLIAM STREET MURRAY STREET DENISON STREET WORKSHOP PARRY STREET HONEYSUCKLE DRIVE WAY STEEL STREET CENTENARY RD WHARF ROAD AT WAR NOBBYS ROAD ARGYLE ST 1 9 SCOTT STREET MEREWETHER ST SHEPERDS PL WOOD ST BOND ST STEVENSON PLACE VEDA STREET LAWSON STREET EXPLORE NEWCASTLE’S STORIESHUNTER STREET HUNTER STREET FORT DRIVE 6 OF WAR THROUGH A SELF-GUIDED HUNTER STREET 5 3 ALFRED ST BEACH ST SKELTON ST AUCKLAND STREET KING STREET SHORTLAND ESP CHAUCER STREET TELFORD ST 2 WALKING TOUR OF THE CITY. 11 EVERTON STREET WARRAH STREET 4 KING STREET BROWN STREET PARNELL PL PERKINS STREET KING STREET AVE HEBBURN STREET OCEAN ST MURRAY SILSOE STREET 10 CHURCH STREET DUMARESQ STREET STEEL STREET PACIFIC STREET GIBSON STREET 8 ZAARA ST AVE 12 BROWN STREET TYRRELL STREET MORONEY CORONA STREET BOLTON STREET LAMAN STREET WATT STREET KEMP STREET HALL ST DICK ST Newcastle Beach DUMARESQ STREET RAVENSHAW STREET QUEEN ST DARBY STREET GLOVERS LN COUNCIL STREET NEWCOMEN STREET ALEXANDER STREET BULL STREET S W PITT STREET ARNOTT STREET A WOLFE STREET NATIONAL PARK STREET N S PARK STREET TR PARKWAY AVE EE BARKER ST T M ORDNANCE STREET O S PARRY STREET B R 1 Fort Scratchley I C R E JENNER STREET S 10am – 4pm, closed Tuesday RAILWAY STREET LAWSON STREET KICHENER PARADE DAWSON STREET BROOKS STREET SMITH STREET RESERVE ROAD 2 Parnell Place HIBBERD STREET BEAUMONT STREET TURNBULL STREET DARBY STREET ANZAC PARADE YORK DRIVE HILLVIEW CRES GORDON AVENUE NESCA PARADE 3 Pacific Park Air Raid Shelter KEMP STREET N L E M DARLING STREET UNION STREET BINGLE STREET (PACIFIC HWY) STEWART AVE JENNER STREET N 4 Royal Newcastle Hospital RAILWAY STREET O S THE TERRACE CLAPHAM ST HIGH STREET P King Edward Park GREENSLOPE STREET A R KENRICK STREET A CORLETTE STREET 5 Newcastle Post Office D E CHURCHILL CCT PULVER STREET TOOKE STREET BRUCE STREET Newcastle’s First War Memorial STANLEY STREET 6 FOWLER STREET 7 NATIONAL PARK STREET 7 Shepherds Hill and the HARLE STREET TURNBULL STREET CLIFF ST SMITH STREET YOUNG STREET Disappearing Gun CRAM STREET Accessible Car Park FENTON AVENUE THOMAS STREET PARKWAY AVENUE E Electric Bike Stations 8 The Warriors Chapel IV R D – Christ Church Cathedral L Strzelecki RAVENSHAW STREET I A DARBY STREET R Scenic Lookout MO ME HENRY STREET FARQUHAR STREET WALKABILITY 9 Newcastle Museum HUGH STREET BROOKS STREET Tuesday to Sunday 10am – 5pm, alk Steps al W open Monday in school holidays CITY ROAD RAILWAY STREET GLEBE ROAD ori LIGHT STREET Mem Moderate-steep gradient LLEWELLYN STREET Shepherds Hill RAILWAY STREET Reservoir 10 Vietnam Memorial Civic Park WILTON STREET WRIGHTSON AVENUE HOPKINS STREET MACQUARIE STREET BAR BEACH AVENUE LINGARD STREET MEMORIAL DRIVE Newcastle City Hall ALICE STREET Fort Scratchley Memorial Walk commemorates those who enlisted in World 11 ROSE STREET Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5pm, EDWARD STREET SELWYN STREET MORGAN STREET War I and features family names of men and women from closed public holidays WINSOR STREET < Continue to Bathers Way PATRICK STREET Newcastle and the Hunter Valley who served during the war. It < Great North Walk also recognises the contribution that BHP Billiton made to the war 12 Newcastle War Memorial DENT STREET BUCHANAN STREET Cultural Centre (Region Library) effort in supplying steel rail, ship plate and munitions. Monday to Friday 9.30am – 8pm, KILGOUR AVENUE Saturday 9.30am – 2pm 3 PACIFIC PARK AIR RAID SHELTER Head west 250m along Scott Street and you’ll encounter a large open reserve on the edge of the city centre known as Pacific Park. NEWCASTLE AT WAR With its shady trees, park benches and the circular water fountains, Generations of Novocastrians experienced the Pacific Park is a haven for local families and picnickers, but once upon a impact of war on their lives and their city. time it was home to something far more unnerving – an air raid shelter. Servicemen firing 6 inch MKVII gun at Fort Scratchley, 1952 As a centre for industry and shipping, Newcastle represented a This walk lets you explore Newcastle through the Photograph courtesy of Newcastle Region Library collection 163001667 significant contribution to Australia’s war effort and therefore conflicts that have shaped its landscape and character. a potential target for attack from enemy aircraft. As a result, Meet locals that left Newcastle to participate in some 1 FORT SCRATCHLEY air raid shelters were built at key centres of population of the most devastating wars in history and walk in their across Newcastle during the Second World War. footsteps, visiting places dedicated to their memory. Fort Scratchley has been standing sentry over Newcastle This walking tour begins at Fort Scratchley, the since 1882 and was originally built to defend the city only coastal fortification in Australia to return fire against a feared attack by Russian naval forces. on an enemy vessel during World War Two. It ends Today, the best way to experience Fort Scratchley is by at the Newcastle War Memorial Cultural Centre joining a guided tour led by knowledgeable Fort Scratchley (Newcastle Region Library); a place where locals Historical Society volunteers. The 360 harbour, city and gather not just to remember and reflect, but to ocean views from the Fort are not to be missed. learn, research and engage with art and culture. Did you know? Fort Scratchley remains the only coastal fortification in Australia to have fired its guns on an enemy You may choose to extend your journey to take in the vessel during the Second World War, after Newcastle was magnificent Memorial Walk opened in April 2015, shelled by the Japanese submarine I-21 on 8 June 1942. the 100-year anniversary of the ANZAC landing on the Gallipoli peninsular. This walk commemorates those from Newcastle and the Hunter Region who enlisted for service in World War One. For more self guided walking tours, visit www.visitnewcastle.com.au or visit the Newcastle Visitor Information Centre located at Museum Park, Honeysuckle. Newcastle Region Library Ground Floor, 15 Laman Street, Newcastle Shell damaged homes in Parnell Place, 1942 Monday to Friday 9.30am – 8pm Photograph courtesy of Newcastle Region Library collection Overlooking Pacific Park, the only original building of Royal Newcastle Hospital still standing Saturday 9.30am – 2pm newcastle.nsw.gov.au/services/newcastle_library Fort Scratchley 2 PARNELL PLACE 4 ROYAL NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL Nobbys Road, Newcastle East Wednesday to Monday 10am – 4pm Only three of the 34 shells fired on Newcastle by the Gaze across towards the south west corner of Pacific Park and you’ll fortscratchley.com.au Japanese submarine actually exploded, including one in see an iconic octagonal-shaped tower, which once represented Newcastle City Hall Parnell Place, located just south of Fort Scratchley. one of the corner wings of the former Royal Newcastle Hospital. 290 King Street, Newcastle Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5pm, closed public holidays Bombardier Stan Newton was running along Parnell Place More than 70 nurses from Newcastle and the Hunter served with newcastlecityhall.com.au towards his post at the Fort when an exploding shell medical units during the First World War, caring for wounded and Newcastle Museum threw him through the air. He completed his run unaware dying soldiers in makeshift hospitals across the battlefields. Workshop Way, Honeysuckle he had a piece of shrapnel lodged in his forehead. To be eligible to serve, nurses must have completed three Tuesday to Sunday 10am – 5pm, Open Monday during school holidays The houses on Parnell Place were damaged by the blast and years of approved hospital training, with the majority of local newcastlemuseum.com.au many of its residents were lucky to have escaped uninjured. women completing it at the Royal Newcastle Hospital. 5 NEWCASTLE POST OFFICE Cross onto Hunter Street and walk a block-and-a half west until you reach the majestic sandstone façade of the former Newcastle Post Office. Originally used as Newcastle Court House, and later as military offices, it was rebuilt as the post office in 1903. Three years earlier a civic reception was held at the building, with part of the first contingent of Australian soldiers to embark for the Boer War attending as the guests of honour. Around 16,000 Australians are estimated to have fought in the Boer War, the first war Australia participated in as a federated nation. More than 50,000 people gathered along Hunter Street to see the contingent leave. Detail of 35th Battalion group photograph, 1915 . Photograph courtesy of Newcastle Museum collection The 35th Battalion The Hunter Street Memorial Also remembered on the 1916/17 and their first major Matron Ida Greaves, 1914. Photograph courtesy of Newcastle Museum collection Hunter Street Memorial are action was the Battle of 6 NEWCASTLE’S FIRST WAR MEMORIAL the men of the 35th Battalion, Messines on 7 July 1917. Matron Ida Greaves dubbed Newcastle’s Own. One of the Battalion’s Located out the front of the Newcastle Post Office, The Battalion was raised in Matron Ida Greaves was one Spending almost five years in biggest challenges was to Newcastle’s first war memorial is a sombre and permanent of the nurses whose journey to uniform, Ida was one of the December 1915 and drew its come during an assault near reminder of Newcastle’s role in the First World War.