Henry Aldridge’s memoirs

From Hertfordshire to Australia *Following is a transcript of recollections that Henry Aldridge wrote about his life. In the original handwritten pages, Henry wrote in a very legible script, but due to the poor condition of some pages with tattered and soiled edges...

Stick up at Imbil

IT was a scandal at the time that involved a number of men including several gold miners and two rather inept thugs who ended up in jail. The drama unfolded on Thursday, July 30, 1868, when William Troden and Joseph Blake first held up a lone rider three miles from...