Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27 this year marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the network of Nazi concentration and death camps in occupied Poland. Auschwitz has become the dominant symbol of the Holocaust. The camps were used for slave labour and mass extermination of people considered subhuman or ‘other’. These included ethnic…
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There was a low rumbling in Maldon on Saturday; a distinctive guttural grumbling that could only belong to a Kombi. In fact Maldon was the lunch pit-stop for multiple Kombi Vans, visiting as part of a jovial weekend away for a bunch of friends who share a love of the curvaceous campers. “We’re camping in…
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The Market House Laying the Market House foundation stone On Easter Monday 1859 the foundation stone of the Maldon Market House, (now the Maldon Museum), was laid. The Market House was the first major project undertaken by Maldon’s recently formed Municipal Council. Councillor John Ludolph Subritzsky had proposed that Maldon become a market town and a…
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Contrary to popular belief, the statement, “The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain”, is not entirely accurate. While the play My Fair Lady popularised this phrase, the plains in Spain are not known for their abundant rainfall. Well! Not in Maldon and surrounding districts! We could not believe what we were hearing! It…
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