Hidden Hamilton

It continued to await its future, concealed in a battle axe block behind 195 Denison Street. This compact nineteenth century residence was o...

He denied he’d been warned, that the conversations had ever taken place. After all, James Sharp was acting Overman at the Hamilton Pit, and ...

Status is having a house on the crest of a hill, fireplaces in every room, and your own underground water tank  so you don’t have to queue t...

Ten stark, simple words, in an email sent to me by Hunter historian, Fr Brian Roach.  Ten words, carrying the story of a terrible death, a f...

At one time or another, most of us have criticised  our city council.   Yet the story of Hamilton shows vividly how the origins of local cou...

'There are mine shafts under the whole of Newcastle', our north coast solicitor told us. We were meeting to begin the paper work for...