A BOOKIE’S BUNK Morris Jacobs Missing from Kookynie The burly form of Morris Jacobs was for long a familiar feature of a Kookynie Hotel billiard room. It has vanished now, and thereby hangs a tale, a tale of woe, for Morris skipped, leaving Kookynie sports lamenting. Months ago Morris opened a book on the Melbourne […]
When an Old Horse Changed Western Australia’s Goldfields Forever
Daily News 19 January 1935, page 12 Yellowdine Finder Tells His Romantic Story A horse with teeth missing makes history and a New Goldfield Rewards Years of Prospecting. PALMERS GRAPHIC STORY – If it had not been that an old horse, to be exact 25 years old, was four teeth short and could not pick […]
Charlie Tyson and the Goldfields’ Greatest Football Family
Charlie Tyson (14 November 1897 – 23 September 1985) was an Australian Rules footballer who played with Collingwood and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the 1920s. Recruited to Collingwood from Western Australian-based Goldfields Football League side Kalgoorlie Railways, Tyson was a half-back flanker and made his VFL debut in 1920. He was named […]
The Importance of Being Frank –
Bernard Joseph Frank was born in Nelson Lyell, New Zealand, in 1867. He was a miner and was the son of Jacob FRANK (Carpenter) and Mary HASLAM. He first went to Victoria and then on to the WA Goldfields in 1893, where he headed to Broad Arrow to seek his fortune. This was where his […]
He Rode Across Australia in Search of Opportunity – The Story of William James Fisher
The following wonderful photographs have been kindly sent to me to share with you. They are from the family album of Ms Robin Panousieris, nee Fisher, and concern her Grandfather, William James Fisher, who was born in 1872, Sago Hill, Ballarat, Victoria. He was the son of Edwin Fisher and Elizabeth Sharp. He married Alice Beatrice […]
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