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Greenough Museum and Gardens > Records

Telegram from Hugh Hamersley

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1876

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

Western Australian Electric Telegraph form printed on both sides with red ink, hand-written message in ink on front

Historical information

Hugh Hamersley (1840-1898) owned extensive tracts of land at Greenough and John Maley (1839-1910) was at times his land agent.
The Electric Telegraph office was built onto the southern side of the Courthouse and Prison Cells at Central Greenough and began operating in 1874.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB2003

Item type

Themes

People
Social History

Material

Width

140 mm

Height or length

215 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Electric Telegraph Western Australian
Greenough Jan 5th 1876.
TIME 10-15 am
By
The following Telegram received here from Guildford
pp7 TO J.S. Maley Esq
Greenough
Please yourself. I will be up soon.
Hugh Hamersley

Contextual information

This is the only telegram in the Maley Mill and Store Archives, and could possibly be the only remaining telegram issued from Greenough.

Keywords

Place made

Greenough, Western Australia, Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

Last modified

Thursday, 8 September, 2022

Completeness

100

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