We recently completed Re-pointing the brickwork on this majestic old girl on the corner of Wolfe St and the Hunter St Mall. For those of you old enough to remember it housed Caldwells Jewellers for many many years.
Positioned perfectly in the midst of the old David Jones building re-development, it’s currently undergoing a major re-furb as premium office space with retail at street level.
We did a little research and found the building started out as one of Newcastle’s first milk bars. We had to remove lots of old rusted bolts from the brickwork during the restoration and in finding the old photo below from the early 1950’s, realised they were remnants of the Victor Ice Cream sign visible on the Hunter St side.