Talk:Old Newcastle School

Newcastle School (former)
Which heritage lists name this building Newcastle School (former)? The Municipal Inventory and Heritage List does not appear to use that term, and I can't find it on the state heritage list. Mitch Ames (talk) 03:25, 1 February 2014 (UTC)


 * State Heritage calls it Newcastle State School (fmr), and Municipal Inventory and Heritage List refers to it as Newcastle School and former Newcastle School.
 * I was going to change the note to the more general:


 * but then I realised that the annotated text is "The former Newcastle School". So does the "colloquial usage" in the note refer to "former Newcastle School" vs "Newcastle School (former)" or does it refer to "former" vs "old" (the article title)? Mitch Ames (talk) 01:37, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Duke Street, or Duke Street North
Is this building at 6 Duke Street -31.55299°N, 116.46904°W, or 6 Duke Street North -31.55099°N, 116.46781°W? I suspect the latter.

Similarly I suspect that this error may occur in other articles. (I've fixed one already.) Mitch Ames (talk) 07:35, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

First P&C
The article currently says that the school may have formed the first P&C in WA. The three references I have found say:
 * History of the Western Australian Council of State School Organisations


 * Letter to the Editor from the wife of the headmaster


 * Toodyay District High School history

Does anyone know of any other reliable references on the subject, that might allow us to determine more certainly whether Toodyay's was the first P&C in WA? Mitch Ames (talk) 10:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * This article says Cowden "enlisted the co-operation of the parents" at Toodyay, but then "When he was promoted to the State school at Buckland Hill Mr. Cowden started to work on the same lines, and, as a result, the Buckland Hill Parents and Teachers League was formed,"
 * This to me suggests that he did not start the P&C at Toodyay.
 * Given that the only definite reference we have for his starting the first P&C at Toodyay is a letter to the editor from his wife, written over 30 years after the fact, I've deleted the sentence from our article. Mitch Ames (talk) 04:02, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Name of the building and article
As per the note in the article, the references include a variety of names but not "the old Newcastle School". Do we have a reference for this "colloquial usage"? Mitch Ames (talk) 11:41, 7 April 2014 (UTC)