Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Volunteers working on the library’s archives. Behind closed doors on Monday mornings, a team of Athenaeum Library volunteers is busy archiving our historic documents. For the past six months, with input from an experienced archivist, we’ve been meeting to sort, organise and catalogue such things as old (sometimes mundane, more often fascinating and occasionally hilarious)…
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All was in readiness for the regular afternoon of Bridge play as players arrived and were eager to take up the challenge once more. Alas, due to a late withdrawal by yours truly, another player was needed to complete the partnerships to avoid a playing alone person. Ring a friend was the call. Werner was…
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Last week, the Times ran an Easter advertisement for Fairbank House, which used the above photo.
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On 10 November 1854, the Mount Alexander Mail announced the opening of the Loddon Hotel, ‘near Bryant’s station on the main road to all the Western goldfields’.
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