Podcasts
Becoming Australian
The Baker Family
Episode 1
Society member, Sandra Boyd, looks into the early lives of her ancestors, the Baker family and the world they stepped into as new arrivals in the colony of NSW.
Episode 2
Society member Sandra Boyd, takes us back to the early 1850s—to a landscape of swamp, scrub, and isolation along the banks of the Hunter River, where her family, the Bakers and others helped shape what would become the suburb of Mayfield.
Hughes Potteries - A Family Concern
Across the road from The Junction Public School in Newcastle once stood a small but mighty institution — a family-run pottery that shaped a community for more than a century. Marie Hughes tells the story of Hughes Potteries – A Family Concern.