One sultry October evening, wandering Newcastle’s historic streets, we came across a sandstone terrace in King Street, standing gallantly alone between its updated counterparts. She held her own. A gracious piece of the Steel City’s history. Home to Herbert and Hazel Porter in 1909, the structure had always been a distinctive Edwardian home in an otherwise non-residential area. The land was previously known as the stonemason’s yard, ‘Lock’s Paddock’. As the century progressed, any acreages here gave way to a wave of new commerce, while Miss Porter’s house remained as the sole residential building. Somehow the paddock lived on as home to the neighbourhood’s working mares and stallions. It remained the backbone of the community in a time when soil, steeds and livestock were more precious than coal that lay beneath.
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