Around Hamilton Public School

Nicholas and Peter attend Hamilton Public School, founded in 1858. It's just a couple of blocks from our house, across Tudor Street from Gregson Park. (Here's the school's website http://www.hamilton.ps.education.nsw.gov.au/links.htm)

This is the view from Tudor Street, the main road through Hamilton and a major bus route into downtown Newcastle, about a 10 minute ride away.

The Tudor Inn Motel is across the street from the school's main entrance. I think the motel might be located here partly because of the huge horse racing track, Broadmeadow Racecourse, a couple of blocks away. Racing is fortnightly and it is apparently a regular stop on the Australian circuit.

The Hotel Bennett is also across the street from the school, a block up Steel Street from the Tudor Motel. It is one of about a half dozen traditional Australian pub/restaurants/slots and betting parlors in the neighborhood. The others are all located on Beaumont Street, the main business district, about three blocks from the school.

This is the main entrance to Gregson Park, across Tudor Street from the school's main entrance.

This is a view of the back of the school, across the street from the Bennett Hotel. The steeple in the background is St. Peter's Anglican Church. The school grounds once had both a high school and primary school, and the oldest buildings date back to when Hamilton was known as Pit Town, for the coal mines.