Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Ada Gow and Colin McArthur. On Wednesday 8 July 1903 a fancy dress ball was held in the Shire Hall (now the Maldon Museum) to raise funds for the Maldon Hospital. Some months before, an organising committee had been appointed with Matron Susannah Coleman and local publican Pierce Jones as honorary secretaries. As well as…
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From left: Lindsay Callaway with Stevo. On Friday, 30 January, Katrine and Stevo were back on air and were joined by Lindsay Callaway from Warral Maldon and they discussed all things bees and honey. It was an informative program about the lifespan of bees, how the queen is crowned, and the genetic engineering that goes…
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In finding out about some of the exhibits in the museum, I’ve discovered that the museum itself has a fascinating history.
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Our trains are a popular tourist attraction in the area and we regularly bring between four and six carriages of people into town. Unfortunately, when the platform was built in the 1880s, they never envisioned large passenger trains full of people arriving at Maldon. Trains of this length are too long for the original platform…
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