Becoming Australian - The Baker Family

Notable Novocastrians: Two Iconic Women

Dr Jude Conway brings to life the stories of two extraordinary Newcastle women, Alice Feguson and Hazel Evans, whose talents, generosity, and community spirit left a lasting mark on the city they loved.

Westy Women - Ep2 Pt2 Ida Viola Bohle

Benita Parker of the West Wallsend District Heritage Group continues Ida Viola Bohle’s story in this compelling first-person series celebrating the women who helped shape West Wallsend. In Part 2, Ida reflects on a lifetime of family, community, music, resilience, and change in a town she called home for more than seventy years.

Westy Women - Ep2 Pt1 Ida Viola Bohle

Join Benita Parker from the West Wallsend District Heritage Group as she presents another story of West Wallsend’s pioneering women through vivid first-person narration. In Part 1 of this podcast, we meet Ida Viola Bohle, who arrived in West Wallsend in 1926 as a young teacher and whose connection with the town would endure for more than seven decades.

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Early Mayfield

Society member Sandra Boyd, takes us back to the early 1850s—to a landscape of swamp, scrub, and isolation along the banks of the Hunter River, where her family, the Bakers and others helped shape what would become the suburb of Mayfield.