Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Maldon has some very generic street names such as High and Main that probably reflect its English heritage. The names of other streets date from Maldon’s first years. John Templeton and Thomas Adair were the surveyors who laid out the town in 1854 and George Lowther was one of the two Assistant Goldfield Commissioners appointed…
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Will printed books ‘eventually join the ranks of clay tablets, scrolls and typewritten pages?
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The State Government announced on Wednesday 29 January that residents will soon be welcomed to Golden Square in Bendigo following the completion of 35 new social housing homes. The $16.6 million project has been delivered in partnership with Wintringham Housing, a not-for-profit housing association focused on providing social housing for those over 50 years of…
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Rumours, gossip and innuendo have been with us since time immemorial. They have also long been the cause of injustice and unhappiness. In January 1909 John Young, an old Maldon resident, died at the age of 81. Young had arrived in Maldon in 1857 and had made a comfortable living as a miner and investor.…
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