Our Past | The telegraph has arrived in Maitland, now for a post office

Updated November 23 2020 - 9:06am, first published November 22 2020 - 12:00pm
West Maitland Post Office, corner of High and Bourke streets, c1890 (telegramsaustralia.com).
West Maitland Post Office, corner of High and Bourke streets, c1890 (telegramsaustralia.com).

Electric telegraph arrived in Australia in 1853, and seven years later it had arrived in Maitland. In part 2 of his series, Lawrie Henderson looks at how it soon led to the construction of Maitland's iconic post office which stands proud today

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