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Vignettes bring library to life
Winsome Strickland, Joy Leneaux-Gale, Helen Gramberg as Mrs Beale, Maree Edwards MP, Eirwen Stevenson, Robyn Annear, Tina Fratta and Brenda Shingles at the launch. It was an upbeat afternoon at the Maldon Athenaeum Library on Saturday 24 May, when the library launched its new online feature. The Library History Vignettes are a series of vignettes…
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The new Australians
On Thursday 12 June 1958 four ‘New Australians’ took the Oath of Allegiance and became British subjects and Australian citizens during a brief but impressive ceremony at the Maldon Shire Hall, (now the Maldon Museum). The Shire President Cr Albert Wood assisted by the Shire Secretary Rex Beach conducted the ceremony before a crowd of…
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John Nott’s Goats
In 1858 John Nott was appointed Clerk of Courts at Maldon. Initially he, his wife Mary Anne and their young family lived in a tent on the Commissioners’ Reserve before a house was built for them next to the Court House. The Notts also established a private fenced garden in what is now the middle…
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