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INTERCHANGE TO FEATURE A PIECE OF LOCAL HISTORY

The new Wickham Interchange will feature a unique piece of Newcastle’s local history.

The Wickham World War I honour roll was originally installed at Wickham Superior Public School in 1918 as a memorial to the school’s 326 staff and students who served in the war.

The marble and granite structure – that weighs in at 1.2 tonnes – was donated to Newcastle Museum following the 1989 earthquake.

It remained on display there until 2008 when the museum was relocated to Honeysuckle, when the memorial was moved into storage.

The memorial was delivered in 48 pieces and installed by a specialist team of stonemasons on the main concourse.

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Tyson Cottrill

Tyson Cottrill is a senior reporter and newsreader for Nine NBN News, based in Newcastle. As the Chief Court Reporter, Tyson has covered some of the biggest court cases from across the Hunter and northern New South Wales. Tyson started with the Nine Network in 2007 and has worked in newsrooms in Sydney, the Gold Coast, and Brisbane. A proud Novocastrian, Tyson has spent the majority of his journalism career reporting on the stories that matter in his hometown. Tyson has a Bachelor of Communications from Charles Sturt University.

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