From the Maitland Mercury report:The old Morpeth Court House is ready to be opened following months of restoration work.
The courthouse, now a museum, has been closed for some time while contractors carried out the work,The Morpeth Court House was built in 1862 on land donated by Lieutenant EC Close and was designed by architect Mortimer Lewis Jnr, the government’s Clerk of Works in the Hunter region at that time.
Full article by Anna Yeo available at Maitland Mercury, 19 Oct, 2010.
