Hi Carell According to Mike Scanlon writing in his "Then & Now" series published on the 3 March 2007 in The Newcastle Herald on page 12, the Snowball Collection includes a 1903 picture of "the Hamilton Wesleyan Church on the corner of Beaumont and Tudor streets .... The church stood for almost 60 years before being demolished in the late 1920s." He goes on to say: "Hamilton began as a series of small coal mining townships from 1848. The main township was called Borehole, with suburbs of Pit Town and Happy Valley (near Glebe Road). By 1901, however, the pits had all closed. The historic picture was among those the late, great Newcastle historians Norm Barney and Bert Lovett saved for posterity and which ended up at the Newcastle Region Library in Laman Street." The Herald carried the 1903 photo and a contemporary (2007) shot of the same streetscape. You can search the Newcastle City Council library's material at http://collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au/keemu/pages/nrm/nlibrary/DtlQuery.php St Peters Church of England, Hamilton http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=100284 says that the church dates from 1880's Regards 2009/7/12 Carell <[email protected]>: >  Pit Town -  Area of Hamilton consisting of Beaumont Street >  to Swan Street. >