Thursday, October 8, 2009

Last-ditch effort to save historic wall

From the Maitland Mercury report:
A last-ditch plea has been made to the State’s heritage body to save a sandstone wall described as a link to the city’s colonisation from burial beneath the third Hunter River crossing. East Maitland resident Kevin Hoy was one of four signatories who wrote to Heritage Council of NSW chairperson Gabrielle Kibble to come to East Maitland to see the remains of a convict-built sandstone wall on Pitnacree Road, believed to be an approach to a bridge built across Pitnacree Creek.

Full article by Briony Snedden available at Maitland Mercury, 6/10/2009.