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Croydon

Queensland

CROYDON.QLD.GUIDE

Community, Business and Visitor Guide

Croydon Who's Who

YOUR COMMUNITY. YOUR CONNECTIONS.

Meet the people behind the place.

Discover the people, businesses and groups who call Croydon home, and meet members across Australia.

Each Portrait connects you with the public introduction and links that member has chosen to share.

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Distinguished and Famous people from Croydon

🌾 James and Walter Aldridge

James and Walter Aldridge were prospectors associated with the gold discovery that transformed Croydon in 1885. Having worked on the Etheridge field, they moved into the Croydon district, where their work became part of the discovery story alongside pastoralist W. C. Brown. Accounts differ about the precise circumstances, so the familiar tale of a chance find in a posthole should be treated as local legend. What followed is clearer: a rapid rush, new businesses and a mining settlement connected to the wider region by rail.

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