"OLD BREAD". NSW Lancaster family.

Here is just a short but interesting news item.

1926 The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder (NSW : 1913 - 1954) Friday 27 August

FORTY YEARS' OLD BREAD

Mr. R. L. Paterson, of Wyee, writes: — 

Having read in the 'Gosford Times' a reprint from the "Cessnock Eagle' about bread being found in the ground at Cessnock supposed to be forty years old, I would like to state that there is living at Wyee an old gentleman, Mr. T. H. Lancaster, who says that his father, the late Mr. Joseph Lancaster, was a timber contractor living in Cessnock between 40 and 50 years ago. 

He had a lot of men engaged timber getting around where the town of Cessnock' now stands, and Mr. Lancaster states, as near as he can remember' those men had camps somewhere in the vicinity where the bread was found. The bread may be some thrown away from the old camps of those days