Tag: Beer Stories

  • Spaldo & the Eastern Road Beer Thief

    Spaldo & the Eastern Road Beer Thief

    Henry Arthur Spalding (known as Spaldo) was born in Birmingham in England in 1850. In 1877, at the age of 26, he boarded the ship ‘Robert Morrison‘ and immigrated to Western Australia. After a few years living in Perth, he moved to Northampton and was appointed the first stationmaster for the new railway. For the…