Cooks Hill, 75 Railway Street.

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Weatherboard cottage. Note: Tin fence - weatherboard terrace next door (77/79) being restored. No. 75 has two lean-to extensions added on at back. Colour. 1988.

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InformationComment recieved from community member: "No 75 was a miners cottage that belonged to my grandparents Arthur and Martha Walmsley..children Ken..Arthur..and Elaine Betty who is my mother..myself...two brothers Warren and Peter...we lived in 23 Brooks Street...ok pop was known to all as Coach as he coached swimming and boxing...he was a wharfie down at Lee Wharf..my grandmother was one of 11 and she lived in Tithes Hill...

When you walked into the front door you found the main bedroom...then down a small corridor lounge room on left another bedroom on right..into a very small kitchen dining room...from there out the back via another small corridor to laundry with a copper and the toilet and very small bathroom out the back"SubjectA8803-P0019Newcastle and Hunter District Historical SocietyA8803Cooks HillRailway Streetweatherboard cottageDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/5361638169/

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