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Pullen

Museum ConnectionsFebruary 12, 2023128Views

Imagine having such a trail-blazing life as a pioneer that when summing it up you barely mention that you were the Pullen - of Pullen & Rawsthorne fame - who designed and operated the stamper battery that crushed Holtermann’s quartz to extract his considerable gold finds! Such…

Spiro Bennett

Museum ConnectionsJanuary 17, 2023167Views

When Spiro and Ann Bennett (nee Carroll) posed for this photo in front of their shop in 1872, they can hardly have imagined that life-sized cut outs from the same image would be standing in the American Tobacco Warehouse on Mayne Street over 150 years…