"There needs to be something there for people to remember" : Industrial heritage in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, Australia
- Authors: Eklund, Erik
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities (Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series) Chapter 8 p. 168-189
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- Description: Newcastle is located on the east coast of Australia in the state of New South Wales (NSW). Coal mining began in the early 19th centrury, and from the 1850s encouraged the development of pit-top towns gathered around an increasingly busy river port. Coal mining shifted west into the Hunter Valley where there are still vast amounts of open pit coal production. Mining also encouraged industrial development in engineering, transport and, from 1915, iron and steel production. Deindustrialization in Newcastle dates from the mid-1970s and plant closures accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s as the steel works and other related manufacturing industries closed down.
Negotiating industrial heritage and regional identity in three Australian regions
- Authors: Eklund, Erik
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Public Historian Vol. 39, no. 4 (2017), p. 44-64
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- Description: This article investigates the relationship between industrial heritage and regional identity during deindustrialization in three Australian regions. Newcastle, in the state of New South Wales (NSW), was a coal-mining and steel-production center located north of Sydney. Wollongong, also in NSW, was a coal-mining and steelproduction region centered around Port Kembla, near the town of Wollongong. The Latrobe Valley was a brown coal-mining and electricity-production center east of Melbourne. All regions display a limited profile for industrial heritage within their formal policies and representations. In Newcastle and Wollongong, the adoption of the language of the postindustrial city has limited acknowledgement of the industrial past, while the Latrobe Valley's industrial heritage is increasingly framed by concerns over current economic challenges and climate change. © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History. All rights reserved.