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Bar Beach Memorial Drive, The Hill

Bar Beach Memorial Drive, The Hill
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Description / Background

The memorial is a road, approximately 1.6 kilometres long, and marked with a 1 metre high triangular concrete tapered obelisk, which is damaged, at the corner of Memorial Drive, High Street and Cliff Street. The road commences in the east at High Street and Cliff Street, ending in the west at Helen Street and Kilgour Street, Bar Beach.

The Newcastle City Council 'Hunter Place Names Index' states Memorial Drive is "A public road in memory of World War I veterans." 

This memorial has been documented as "Anzac Memorial Drive" in the following collection: Samuel Wood, wholesale stationer, printer and bookseller : postcards, ca. 1920-1931, 260. Anzac Memorial Drive, Newcastle

It is unknown when the name was changed to "Memorial Drive" as listed in the Newcastle Libraries Hunter Photobank.

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Inscription

Obelisk - west face

Opened [illeg.] October 1922 H.P. Cornish Mayor

Obelisk - north east face

Memorial Drive

Veterans listed on this memorial

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Address
1 Memorial Drive
Bar Beach NSW 2300
Local Government Area
Newcastle, City of
Memorial type
Other
Recorded by
Mr Robert McLardy
Year of construction
1922
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18