Nov. 7, 2012, 10:33 p.m.
OLD DAYS, NEW WAYS: Newcastle Museum is featuring a new interactive exhibition using iPhones or iPads. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
4 Perkins Street as the W Wells residence and Temperance Hotel in 1892-1893. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
23 Telford Street as the Pacific Hotel in 1909. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
63 Hunter Street as the Westminster Hotel in 1898. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
65 Hunter Street as Henry Asser Bookseller and Stationer in 1897. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
121 Hunter Street as the Borough Markets in 1891. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
125 Scott Street as the Centennial Hotel in 1904. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
159 Hunter Street in 1910.
159 Hunter Street today. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
375 Hunter Street as the Black Diamond Hotel during the Victorian era. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
375 Hunter Street as the Black Diamond Hotel in years gone by. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
419 Hunter Street as the A Breckenridge Drapery in 1899.
419 Hunter Street today. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
433 Hunter Street as F Witherspoon Importers during the Victorian era. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
475 Hunter Street as the Locomotive Hotel in 1891.
475 Hunter Street today. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
483 Hunter Street as Thomas Brothers Wholesale and Retail Butchers in 1904. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
709 Hunter Street as the Marcus Clark department store during the Victorian era.
709 Hunter Street today. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
Celebrations on Hunter Street at the site of the old David Jones building to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall in 1901.
Christ Church Cathedral during its construction and now.
Corner of Scott and Newcomen streets as the Commercial Hotel in 1893.
Corner of Scott and Newcomen streets today. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
Image of the harbour from Foreshore Park featuring a coal train during the late Victorian era.
Newcastle Harbour from Honeysuckle showing the Darra in 1897. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
Newcastle Railway Station in 1891. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
The Centennial arch on Hunter Street in 1897.
The City Arcade and Western Markets in 1892. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
The Fort Scratchley nine inch gun was completed in 1892. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
The Municipal Market building as it is today. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
The Municipal Market building in 1891.
The Newcastle Museum interactive exhibit enables people to visit Newcastle during the Victorian era using their iPhone or iPad. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
The Northumberland Permanent Building and Investment Land and Loan Society Building at the corner of Burwood and Hunter streets in 1887.
The site of the old Centennial arch on Hunter Street today. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
This scene can be scanned using the museum app to retrieve historical information and images. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
This scene of the harbour from Foreshore Park can be scanned with the museum app to retrieve historical images and information. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
A NEW exhibit at the Newcastle Museum lets people interact with 25 historical locations around Newcastle and discover a lost Victorian city.
Headed by architectural history lecturer Dr Tessa Morrison from the University of Newcastle and using the technical expertise of PhD student Nicholas Foulcher, the project has been a year in the making.
The Reconstructing Victorian Newcastle exhibition features 25 images of CBD sites and reveals what they looked like in the period from the mid-1800s to early 1900s.
"Newcastle went through a real boom period in the late 19th century with imposing stone buildings, hotels with broad verandahs and a thriving commercial centre," Dr Morrison said.
Visitors can download a free application on their smart phones or tablet devices to learn more information about the sites and gain access to more photos.
Directions are also provided so people can walk through the CBD on a self-guided tour using their phone or iPad.
"They can see a butcher in Hunter Street 120 years ago proudly showing his produce. It's about peeking behind the surface of modern Newcastle to see its fascinating Victorian past," Dr Morrison said.
Featured sites include Newcastle Railway Station, the former City Arcade and Western Markets at 684 Hunter Street, and Christ Church Cathedral.
The exhibit also tells the story of the Hunter Street celebrations of May 25, 1901, when more than 30,000 citizens stood waiting for the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York who later become King George V and Queen Mary.
Although the street and area was heavily decorated and citizens stood cheering, the royal couple did not leave Honeysuckle Station and spent just 30 minutes in the city.
The Reconstructing Victorian Newcastle exhibit follows the Newcastle 2020 exhibition that asked Newcastle youth how they would enhance Hunter Street. Both projects are aimed at encouraging people back to Newcastle's CBD.
The latest exhibit runs until Sunday, December 9.
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