The Lake Mac Heritage Series was placed to pay homage to the people, places and events that contributed to building and pioneering the Lake Macquarie region. The pick and shovel were chosen in this geoart series to symbolise the hard work the people of Lake Macquarie put forth into the region.

Book Mobile

On 17th of June 1950 it was revealed that the Mobile Library for Lake Macquarie would operate from August that year. It was to be the first Bookmobile library to operate in northern New South Wales and was scheduled to travel up to 200 miles a week throughout Lake Macquarie Shire. The Bookmobile was based at the central library which had only opened two weeks before the Mobile service was due to begin. After a successful trial, the Lake Macquarie Shire Bookmobile commenced regular services on 27th November 1950 and was driven by Mr John Stephenson. Miss Miller described the Bookmobile as “a large vehicle with a five-ton chassis, to carry 2000 books, like a large bus”. Borrowers would walk inside to take books from the shelves as they would in an ordinary library. Routes for the Bookmobile had been planned to provide weekly visits to local centres with a population of 100 or more residents, and twice a week to larger centres of between 1000 and 3000 residents. The original itinerary as of November 1950 was: Monday November 13 Morisset railway station 10am; Cooranbong Baber's-road 11.10am; Dora Creek opposite the Store 1.10pm; Awaba post-office 2.40; Blackalls post-office 3.25pm; Fassifern post office 4.05pm. Tuesday November 14Young Wallsend Park 10am; West Wallsend Monument 10.50 am; Holmesville main road 1.15; Barnsley Hall 1.55; Killingworth Monument 2.45; Wakefield hall 3.30pm. Wednesday November 15 Wangi Wangi Davis' store 10am; Rathmines post office 10.55; Coal Point 11.40 am -12.20 pm; Carey Bay post office: Toronto opposite Memorial Hall 1.10; Marmong Point post office 2.25pm; Teralba corner Anzac parade and William St 3.15pm. Thursday November 16 Cardiff Public School, children only 10-10.30am; Cardiff opposite hotel 10.40am; Cardiff West (now Glendale East) public school 1.15; Argenton post office 1.55pm.

The puzzle

All historical and heritage information courtesy of Lake Mac Libraries

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*** The LMHS geoart was placed in conjunction with the OzGeoMuster 2018 mega event. The OzGeoMuster 2018 committee would like to thank the following people for their contribution to this series. ahomburg, day1976, sedgwickDave, The Morris, bobbiesgirl, and the_garbageman.***

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