Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Maldon Museum and Historic Archives is hosting a Victorian Goldfields World Heritage bid (VGWHB) information display as part of the World Heritage Bid Roadshow from Monday 28 October to Sunday 18 November.
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My letter to the Editor was published in the Tarrangower Times in February 2024, asking for any information from the community about my great-grandfather Edward Ferdinand Wagener, the long-time Maldon brickmaker and his wife, Louisa Sophia Doris Spanhake and their nine children. I also mentioned the Wagener connection to the Subritzky brothers who had arrived…
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Volunteers working on the library’s archives. Behind closed doors on Monday mornings, a team of Athenaeum Library volunteers is busy archiving our historic documents. For the past six months, with input from an experienced archivist, we’ve been meeting to sort, organise and catalogue such things as old (sometimes mundane, more often fascinating and occasionally hilarious)…
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First off, some history:
Almost 150 years ago, a group of Maldon locals banded together to share the expense of building a pavilion at the Springs reserve – an area which is now known simply as the Butts.
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Keep up with the locals!