The Abandoned Mine –

Western Mail Perth – 18 August 1949, page 15 The Abandoned Mine Gaunt, against a lowering sky, With steely fingers interlaced, and capped with a motionless wheel,The poppet head looks down upon its lesser satellites, clustered ‘neath its towering heights. A huddled group of sheds and stores, with staring windows, broken doors. Deserted cage and […]

The Game – by Ray ‘Jacko’ Jackson

No more bets big Nick cried, as the pennies went up, And they spun round and round in the air Tails he called when they came down to rest, For the spinner it was sheer despair. He tossed the kip down on the ground in the ring; that was a quick lost ten quid This […]

The Trustees of the Dead – a verse

Just recently, I was helping a lady search for information on her grandfather who was once the mayor of Cue in the Murchison. While looking for information, I came across the following verse which was written about him when he became one of the trustees of the Cue Cemetery. Sunday Press  26 July 1903, page […]

He Had So Much Work To Do –

Another favourite verse from the pen of Henry Lawson I tell a simple little story of a settler in the West, Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never rest While the sun shines—and they often work in rainy weather, too: But it’s all about a young man who had so much work to […]

Charlie Webb – a good fellows end

  The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE:  The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence indicating Mt. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an […]