The following story is an extract from the family history of Reg Blackmore and is reproduced with his permission. Emma and Nathaniel were his Great Grandparents. Emma Jane Loader’s first trip to the WA goldfields December 1895 Written by Emma in 1937 at age 95 years. Mrs. Loader and her daughter, Mrs. Harriet Childs Bottrill, […]
In the Future by Prospect Good
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In The Future – by Prospect Good Oh what will the bush bards sing in time When the digging days are done? When the roaring times have been sung in rhymes The yarns of the past all spun? When there’s no new field to rush and work And never a campfire gleams When […]
Mabel Hartrick – grave tales
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Mabel Hutchinson was born in Walhalla, Victoria in 1874. She was the daughter of William Hutchinson and Mary Ann nee Lapping. At the age of 24yrs, young Mabel Hutchinson travelled to the Western Australian town of Geraldton where she married Charles Francis Fade Hartrick in 1899. The following photograph shows Charles with his brother Harry […]
Lennonville – a gold studded pub door
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Daily News 23 July 1953, page 5 – By road, 361 miles north-north-east from Perth is Lennonville. A tourist guide book 50 years ago would have described it as a population of 3000, seven hotels, two banks, two jewellers, up-to-date town, mining centre, connected by rail. It’s still Lennonville, the idle railway platform still bears […]
Oliver Hancock – Miner, Prospector & Author
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Sun 10 September 1939, page 3 DEEP LEAD POSSIBILITIES DISCUSSED IN NEW BOOK Gold : deep alluvial leads Kanowna and Kalgoorlie: how to find them by Oliver Hancock Mr. Oliver Hancock, a practical miner, and prospector has Issued an informative pamphlet on the deep alluvial leads of Knnowna and Kalgoorlie and how to find them. […]
