For many people, Farrington's Cottage defines what a Maldon B&B Cottage is all about. Authentic 19th century heritage cottage, wood-fired heating, close to town.
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Only 2 kms. from Maldon's shops and restaurants, Blue Wren Cottage has many guests that keep coming back time after time. Spa bath, cosy and convenient gas "pot belly" heating, bordering historic forest reserve.
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MALDON INVENTIONS

On the 12th of January, 1875, Victorian Patent No. 2011 was granted to John Alsop of South Muckleford, in the shire of Maldon, in the colony of Victoria, farm laborer, for "An invention/or simplifying the, process of threshing and winnowing"

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DESCRIPTION: The machine is fed, where the corn is bagged in the old machines, into a large drum driven at a slow speed. The corn and straw are thrown to the top of an enclosed passage, in which is an elevating riddle belt working on undulating rollers. The straw descends down a screen in which arc revolving riddle drums, revolved by the corn in its descent. The straw falls on to a concave, where it is bound with ropy, and thence lifted on to the stack. The corn is elevated sixteen feet from the enclosed passage to the winnowing machine, and descends down a screen through a blower into a bag, (No drawings.) (Lapsed.)