Kitchener, New South Wales
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Kitchener is a small town in the City of Cessnock
, in the Hunter Region in the state of New South Wales
, Australia
. Kitchener is located 5 kilometres south of the town of Cessnock, NSW and is adjacent to Werakata National Park
and the Aberdare State Forest.
The town is named after Lord Kitchener
, British secretary for War from July 1914.
. The historic mine site has been preserved as a Heritage Park (including the poppet head structure). A number of the dwellings where originally occupied by mine management.
In 1914, the mine employed 93 people; four years later it employed 287.
In July 1943, a large fire caused the mine to close for 12 months.
The mine was closed in November 1961. The coal holding lease is still retained by Coal and Allied Limited.
In 2009, a Chinese owned mining company, Austar, was granted approval to construct a surface infrastructure site just south of Kitchener. This facility was built to service the company's Longwall Top Coal Caving mining of the Greta Coal Seam (in the mine previously known as the Southland Coal Mine) south of Kitchener
City of Cessnock
Cessnock City Council is a Local Government Area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, located to the west of Newcastle. The largest population centre and council seat is the city of Cessnock, after which the LGA is named....
, in the Hunter Region in the state of New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Kitchener is located 5 kilometres south of the town of Cessnock, NSW and is adjacent to Werakata National Park
Werakata National Park
Werakata is a national park in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. The park is located to the north, east and south of the town of Cessnock...
and the Aberdare State Forest.
The town is named after Lord Kitchener
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC , was an Irish-born British Field Marshal and proconsul who won fame for his imperial campaigns and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War, although he died halfway...
, British secretary for War from July 1914.
Mining history
Kitchener was the location of the Aberdare Central Colliery which was developed by Caledonian Collieries Ltd during World War IWorld War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
. The historic mine site has been preserved as a Heritage Park (including the poppet head structure). A number of the dwellings where originally occupied by mine management.
In 1914, the mine employed 93 people; four years later it employed 287.
In July 1943, a large fire caused the mine to close for 12 months.
The mine was closed in November 1961. The coal holding lease is still retained by Coal and Allied Limited.
In 2009, a Chinese owned mining company, Austar, was granted approval to construct a surface infrastructure site just south of Kitchener. This facility was built to service the company's Longwall Top Coal Caving mining of the Greta Coal Seam (in the mine previously known as the Southland Coal Mine) south of Kitchener
External links
- Aberdare Central Colliery Summary (Newcastle Regional Museum)
- Cessnock City Council area profile "Rural East Precinct"
- Photo of mine in 1965 "from Flickr"