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When gold was discovered in Maldon, about twenty thousand people rushed there to seek their fortune. It is likely that very few of these people had any intention of settling in Maldon. It fact, history tells us that one year later only two thousand people remained.

At first, most people on the goldfield lived in tents. Some of these tents were quite roomy, and consisted of a wooden frame supporting a canvas cover. In some cases, as years went by, these structures received a corrugated-iron roof, and the walls were clad with timber boards. Often, the canvas remainded under the later covering. This clue to how these cottages began life usually remains hidden until some present-day tradesman is engaged to perform some repair work, and then it is revealed.

The inner walls of these cottages were often covered with hessian. This was usually covered with paper, pasted on. Sometimes this was newspaper, and sometimes "real" wallpaper. Where this was, as often happened, later covered with masonite or plaster board, the old hessian and paper sometimes remained.

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