Annie Maynard Westcott 1875 – 8th May 1951 Ballarat and WWI nurse Annie Maynard Westcott was born in 1875 at Leigh Creek to a well known family whose market gardens and orchards supplied Ballarat’s population of 60,000 with fresh fruit, vegetables, and ‘a range of excellent jams’, leading to the property’s nickname “The Jam Factory”. … Continue reading Annie Maynard Westcott – Women who shaped and built Ballarat