Open/Close Toolbox
Format: Audio
Linked To
Interview logCollection
Copyright
General Use Special Collections Copyright
Please contact Special Collections if you are a subject of an item, or know a subject of an item, and have cultural or other reservations about an item being made available on this website and would like to discuss this with us.
This item can be used for study and personal research purposes. If you wish to reproduce this item for any other purpose please contact the University of Newcastle Library's Special Collections.
If you have any further information about the item, please contact us.
Murray's Run - Les Sternbeck - 2 September 1989
Expand/collapse
Details
SummaryInterview by Margy Barnett in 1989 with Les Sternbeck about Murray's Run and his life growing up the the area.
Murray's Run is a valley on the south arm of the Wollombi Brook in the Cessnock area, bounded to the east by Brush Creek and the Yarramalong Valley to Wyong, to the north are the Wattagan mountains and west is Yengo.
Murray's Run is named after Andrew Murray a nephew of Sir Walter Scott who arrived in NSW in 1817 and travelled to the Hunter region with Blaxland and Milson in 1822. Murray left his stock behind in the area that would bear his name, and for many years after the valley was used as a relief pasture.
At the time of the interview Les was the oldest resident in Murray's Run, his great grandfather George Sternbeck had also lived there, as well as later generations.
SubjectSternbeck,Les Murray's Run (N.S.W.)FarmingCessnock (N.S.W.)Wollombi BrookWollombi (N.S.W.)PersonBarnett, MargySternbeck,Les Interview logDate Created2nd October 1989Location[1] IdentifierA6963(v)_Sternbeck
Murray's Run is a valley on the south arm of the Wollombi Brook in the Cessnock area, bounded to the east by Brush Creek and the Yarramalong Valley to Wyong, to the north are the Wattagan mountains and west is Yengo.
Murray's Run is named after Andrew Murray a nephew of Sir Walter Scott who arrived in NSW in 1817 and travelled to the Hunter region with Blaxland and Milson in 1822. Murray left his stock behind in the area that would bear his name, and for many years after the valley was used as a relief pasture.
At the time of the interview Les was the oldest resident in Murray's Run, his great grandfather George Sternbeck had also lived there, as well as later generations.
SubjectSternbeck,Les Murray's Run (N.S.W.)FarmingCessnock (N.S.W.)Wollombi BrookWollombi (N.S.W.)PersonBarnett, MargySternbeck,Les Interview logDate Created2nd October 1989Location[1] IdentifierA6963(v)_Sternbeckloading google map....
Murray's Run - Les Sternbeck - 2 September 1989, [A6963(v)_Sternbeck]. Living Histories, accessed 22/04/2025, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/74654