Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
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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A Remembrance Day memorial service will take place on Monday 11 November at the cenotaph in the Maldon Gardens.
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Australia Day, 26 January 2024, is the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Tower on the Mount.
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Wells’ baker’s cart. The Maldon Bakery has a good claim to being Australia’s oldest continuous operating bakery. In 1854, soon after the discovery of gold, George McArthur began baking bread locally and about 1857 built the small brick building that is part of the current building. The McArthur family operated the bakery for more than…
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