NBN News Rewind

Rewind Series 3 Episode 4 – Monuments

A construction in copper and steel, these familiar objects could only be one thing, the Civic Park fountain in Newcastle..
Pipes were connected and the spiraling jets of water completed the sculpture…created by Margel Hinder, in nineteen sixty six…

From our early years, NBN often filmed sights of significance, in our local community

Two monuments appeared in Wingham. This 400 year old brushbox log, a salute to the timber industry,
and a World War Two Vampire Jet, to commemorate 50 years of the RAAF..

Camden Haven Port was completed as a safe harbor for local fishermen..
this huge stone unveiled on the northern breakwall, to mark the opening.

And Ploddy the Dinosaur appeared in Wyoming,
NBN News filmed the construction in 1963, commissioned by Eric Warrel for his reptile park…
A roadside attraction created as a tribute to the diplodocus dinosaurs that once roamed the region.

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