| Cooks Hill Newcastle, New South Wales |
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| Population: | 2,537 [1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 2300 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 0.9 km² (0.3 sq mi) [1] | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 2 km (1 mi) from Newcastle CBD | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Newcastle | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Newcastle[2] | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Newcastle[3] | ||||||||||||
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Cooks Hill is an inner city suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is typified by its tree lined streets, rows of Victorian terrace housing, turn of the century timber cottages and corner pubs.
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Description
Cooks Hill is probably most renowned for the popular 'eat street' - Darby Street. Darby Street has approximately 25 restaurants and Cafes with enjoy alfresco dining, cafes and pubs. It is also diverse in character and is home to the city's Christ Church Cathedral as well as some well-known pubs, like The Cricketeers Arms Hotel, The Oriental Hotel and the Commonwealth Hotel.
The suburb is also home to the Newcastle Region Art Gallery in Laman Street. The Gallery houses many works by significant artists, including works by Sidney Nolan, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale and Peter Preston it is the custodian of a substantial public art collection.
It is also a number of smaller inner city art galleries, including the Von Bertouch Gallery founded by the late Anne Von Bertouch. It is believed to be the first commercial gallery outside a capital city in Australia. Cooks Hill also hosts a visual arts scene and several artist-run projects such as the rocketart gallery.
The suburb is represented sporting-wise by the Cooks Hill United Football Club (the flagship being the over-35 B team) and the Cooks Hill Rugby Union Football Club (the "Brown Snakes"). The Cooks Hill United club plays its main senior and junior games at National Park No4. The Brown Snakes were established in 2007 as a youth-oriented senior Rugby club and have Hawkins Oval, Wickham as their home ground.
Newcastle Visitor Information Centre provides Cultural Precinct Guides listing all the galleries.
History
Cooks Hill grew from coal mines in the area. Land sales developed from Brooks Street onto Darby Street to create the commercial centre there today. Darby Street was originally known as Lake Macquarie road and was one of the few public access roads through AA Company Coal Mine land.[4]
Cooks Hill was badly damaged when at 10.27am on 28 December 1989, Newcastle experienced an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale which killed 13 people, injured 162 and destroyed or severely damaged over 25,000 buildings, many of which had to be subsequently demolished. It was the first in Australian history known to claim human lives.
References
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (19 November 2002). "Community Profile Series : Cooks Hill (State Suburb)". 2001 Census of Population and Housing. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ProductSelect?newproducttype=Community+Profiles&collection=Census&period=2001&areacode=SSC16121&breadcrumb=LP¤taction=201&action=401. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
- ^ "Newcastle". NSW Electoral Commission. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/electoral_districts/all_districts_/newcastle. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
- ^ "Newcastle". Australian Electoral Commission. http://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/n/newcastle.htm. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
- ^ "Cooks Hill". The City of Newcastle. http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/discover_newcastle/discover_our_suburbs/cooks_hill. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
- "Cooks Hill". Department of Lands - Spatial Information eXchange. New South Wales Department of Lands. http://imagery.maps.nsw.gov.au/?role=mysuburb&search=suburb&suburb=Cooks%20Hill. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
External links
- Newcastle Visitor Information Centre - City Precinct page
- Cooks Hill, New South Wales is at coordinates 32°56′02″S 151°46′11″E / 32.9338°S 151.7696°ECoordinates: 32°56′02″S 151°46′11″E / 32.9338°S 151.7696°E
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