Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
This 1909 steam engine stole the show in Maldon – and won young Brendan’s heart decades ago. Now that the dust has settled and the amazing Maldon Easter weekend is behind us, I am thinking back to one of the larger vehicles that you may have noticed in the parade. It’s a 1909 John Fowler…
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Photo courtesy Rob Leeson. It has been through the hoops, weathered every challenge that the century could roll at it and come out the other side to celebrate its one hundredth birthday; congratulations to Maldon Croquet Club! The club held a party on Tuesday 1 April under a stupendous autumn blue sky, with a gathering…
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Always look on the ‘Bright Side of life’ is a well-known song and most of the time this is what we all do. We arrive to play Bridge each week and always with a happy outlook, full of expectation in what our hands will reveal for the day’s play. The main thing is we get…
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It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air! The connection between love and Saint Valentine, the 3rd Century Christian martyr, is tenuous. The habit of exchanging hand-made Valentine’s love tokens dates from the 17th Century; however, commercialisation has intervened and February 14 is now a key date in the retail calendar. Research from the…
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