Western Mail Perth 23 December 1937, page 86 Jack Lawson was having difficulty with his hair. Since yesterday’s swim in the none too clean water-hole, it had departed from its usual submissiveness and now insisted on standing straight on end. “Just the one day of the year when I wanted especially to look my best,” […]
All the Little Children – the Willis family
30/09/2023 By 7 Comments
I’m sure many readers will know that there was a high child mortality rate in the early days of the Goldfields and all of the cemeteries both large and small will testify to this. However, there is one family, in one town, that surely must be one of the most number of children to one […]
A Murder in the Kimberleys –
23/09/2023 By 1 Comment
Sunday Times 5 September 1954, page 3 Murder Ended a 1922 search for Oil in Kimberleys Memories of the Locke Expedition by Morva Gogan In a specially equipped Dakota plane, a party from the Bureau of Mineral Resources has almost completed a survey of the North West Kimberleys with the object of exploring for oil […]
A Most Determined Suicide – John Philp
23/09/2023 By Leave a Comment
Mental health is today something that we are much more aware of. In 1898 it was still a crime to attempt to kill yourself and was so until the mid 1960’s in most Australian states. This would be why Sergeant Sellenger said he would take no further action. Western Australian Goldfields Courier 8 January 1898, […]
The Man in a Mining Camp – by N E Gledhill
23/09/2023 By 2 Comments
Men In A Mining Camp – A tale by N.E. Gledhill This ‘Ripping Yarn’ from the pen of N E Gledhill is kindly shared by his Great Nephew Allen Gledhill with thanks: As soon as I had explored the empty, hollow-sounding rooms of our new house in Boulder, I saw with delight that a huge […]
