Cost
Adults $12 Concession $10 family $34 and National Trust Members and Children under 5 Free
When
Miss Porter's House Museum is open the second Sunday of every month
Pictures from the Past. A picture is worth a thousand words. Family snaps, hand-coloured prints and commercial photographs in the Miss Porter's House collection paint a vivid portrait of Newcastle life in the early years of the twentieth century. The special display of Pictures From The Past will include examples from the family postcards and holiday snaps to street scenes and local landmarks. Visitors can also help identify several mystery photographs.
Where did Florence Porter hang the washing to dry. A pre 1919 photo of husband Herbert in their Newcastle West backyard helped volunteers at Miss Porter's solve the mystery.
See this and more in the museum's monthly display. The collection tells the many stories of Florence and her daughters, Hazel and Elala, who lived in the house from 1910, when Florence was a new bride, until the death of Hazel in 1997.
See Herbert celebrating an Eight Hour Day Procession on one of the Porter shop's delivery carts.
434 King Street, Newcastle West