Mount Sugarloaf Community Page

I don't have Barnsley and Edgeworth Heights school crests. If anyone has them please contact me using the guest book and I'll post them here as well.

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Hi people. After visiting a number of reunion sites I concluded that a reunion site of our own would do us no harm, so here it is. I'm happy to maintain the site but I have no special interest in owning it, having naming rights on it or taking credit for it. I just want to bring some of these things together. 

I have found another similar more regularly updated site here http://www.westwallsend.net/.

For the benefit of anyone who has found their way to this site but does not know the area, the West Wallsend area is a historic former coal mining village. Mining activities continue in Killingworth. The area is located directly West of Newcastle and in North Western Lake Macquarie, of which it is a part.  Lake Macquarie was once a Municipality of Newcastle but is now a City in its own right. Most people in "Westy" still associate as much with Newcastle and the Hunter Region generally as they do with Lake Macquarie. Both are great places.

I'm looking for school crests for Barnsley and Edgeworth Heights Schools. I would also  appreciate any help you are willing to offer in identifying appropriate content for  these pages. If you have any photos of icons of each suburb, of the schools and so on please let me know using the guestbook. I no longer live in the area so I have no capacity to take any myself. For the moment I'm just linking to existing photos on the web and hoping nobody minds since this I'm doing it non-profit and am giving credit.

Those of you who have left the area, the state or even the country who might be feeling a little home sick might like to check out the old haunt, Lake Macquarie and Newcastle on Google Maps or find your way around on Whereis and leave your pin on the guestmap.  On the subject of maps you will, no doubt, all remember the December 1989 Newcastle 5.6 Earthquake. The epicentre of that event was remarkably close to home, virtually right under us (purportedly about 30km under Boolaroo (Awabakal for 'place of many flies')... the coordinates are actually beneath the wetlands on the other side of the creek in Teralba (Awabakal for 'place of ticks'), of which Barnsley was a part when its first school opened. The 1994 5.2 quake which we all took in our stride was centred on the other side of Mount Sugarloaf near Cessnock. [Source]

The management of a regional famous face, the Original YAHOO, Mr Yahoo Serious (actor, author, producer, director) found it useful to state his origins as Boolaroo due to the quaint and somewhat humourous meaning of its name.  It is known to locals that he is in fact from Cardiff - but hey, he's still one of our own, we're all Novocastrians right? Who outside of Westy (or in it) is ever going to look at this page anyway! Your secret is safe with us. 

If you're planning a reunion click on "Reunion" on any of the suburbs pages and make a posting on the calendar.

I'm not maintaining a database of students or school photos. My guess is that most of you will go to facebook anyway.

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