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Physical evidence of the railways occupation period is far more substantial with some of the structures remaining. These include: the large and imposing station master's residence; the two storey
Paymaster's Office; the concrete slab remains from Brett's sailmakers' loft and some brick remains of the
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Railway Institute, including a hall in Scott Street alongside the Station master's residence, and a tennis court which occupied the site of the cottage nearest Scott
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This site provides: rare evidence of a convict stockade/convict workplace; rare evidence of an early industrial site and physical evidence (now becoming uncommon) of payment practices of large organisations.
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Convict Lumberyard Site: a Preliminary Report on its Future Use and Interpretation and Implications for the Development of the former Railway Lands
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Its evidence of operation of the NSW Railways as an institution, particularly in relation to payments of employees and its care of buildings.
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Its evidence, in the stationmaster's residence, of the practice of government instrumentalities of providing accommodation for its employees.
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The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
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Aboriginal open campsite mainly comprising stone tools was located on the site during the 1987 archaeological excavations.
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The contribution the extant buildings make to the townscape, much of which comprises buildings connected with the railways of the past.
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Its potential to reveal, through archaeological excavation, further evidence of convict occupation and the later history of the site;
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Its major evidence of the convict period of
Newcastle's history, when Newcastle was the place for secondary punishment of convicts.
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Physical evidence of the convict occupation of the site also found during these excavations includes: a brick drain and stone
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1885 â Traffic manager's residence (later called the station master's residence) and Stationmaster's residence constructed.
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Its potential to yield information, not available through documentary sources, about the convict occupation of the site.
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Newcastle Lumber Yard - Station Master's House Paymaster's Office - (Report); and - Addendum to 1989 Excavation Report
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Its evidence of a convict workplace and possibly the oldest physical evidence of an industrial workplace in Australia.
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Convict Lumber Yard or Stockade Site; Stationmaster's residence and Paymaster's office; Convict Lumberyard; Stockade
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Its evidence of the major themes of Newcastle's history, particularly convict history and railway and port history;
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The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales.
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1987 â Enterprise Park opened. First Archaeological excavation unearths remains of well, forge and brick paving.
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The potential of the site, combined with documentary and oral evidence, to interpret major aspects of the
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Its rare evidence of a convict industrial workplace and of convict structures thought to have been lost;
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1832 â Lumber Yard reopened as a base for convicts building Nobby's breakwater. Known as 'The Stockade'
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Report on the Archaeological Test Excavation of the Convict Lumber Yard & Stockade, Newcastle, NSW
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88-90 Scott Street, Newcastle NSW - Historical Archaeological Assessment & Research Design
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Its potential to interpret Newcastle's history and for its association with its community;
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Its evidence of the role of NSW Railways in the development of Newcastle and its port.
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Further archaeological investigations were carried out in June 1989 and October 1992.
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Its evidence of Aboriginal occupation which is now rare in the urban Newcastle area.
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Its evidence of Aboriginal occupation which is now rare in the urban Newcastle area.
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1879 â Berthing master's house constructed (now known as the Paymaster's office).
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The Convict Lumber Yard - a place of convict history under the ground (brochure)
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Interim Report - Disturbance of Convict Lumberyard Site, Newcastle
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O'Brien, Christine - Natural & Cultural Heritage P/L (1994).
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Urban Design Strategy for Newcastle Convict Lumber Yard Precinct
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1947 â Railways and Tramways Institute opened new premises in
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