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Order for bricks from George Baston

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George Baston

1867

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

hand written note on blue paper with horizontal and vertical blue lines

Historical information

George Baston moved to Geraldton in 1857 to manage Henry Gray's store. He later went on to own the Pig and Whistle Inn and from the profits bought blocks of land and built cottages along Marine Terrace, Geraldton. Interestingly Baston was in financial difficulties by 1867 and moved to Fremantle. He later returned to Geraldton and was elected Chairman of the Geraldton Municipality in 1877.
John S. Maley, manager of the Victoria Inn, used his men to make bricks in the early 1860s - the oldest part of his homestead, built 1862, is entirely made of brick. The earliest letter in the Maley Mill & Store Archives mentioning sale of bricks is from 1865.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB1619

Item type

Letters

Material

Writing Paper

Width

200 mm

Height or length

118 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

3d June 1867
Dr Maley If you could let me have 1000 bricks I should feel obliged & Burton will cart them also please send by him the cracked wheat and obg
Geo Baston

Contextual Information

This note provides evidence that bricks were being made at Greenough in 1867 for use in construction of buildings in Geraldton.

Keywords

Bricks

Place made

Geraldton
Western Australia
Australia

There is another 1867 note from G. Baston ordering bricks in the Maley Mill & Store Archives.

Year

1867

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