The newsletter will be taking a short break until 8 November while I travel to England to visit my two youngest children, who both live there. When I return, I hope to share news of a new venture I’ve been working on for some time—something I hope you’ll find interesting. Until then, take care, and […]
Doyle’s Well: Coaches, Cold Beer and Frog Cocktails
DOYLES WELL Originally called CUTMORE’S WELL Located between Leonora and Agnew and near the Turkey and Wilson Creeks. A wayside inn and coaching stop. In 1903, there was a coach service from Leonora on three days a week. There were stockmen working for the stagecoach lines stationed there until at least about 1912. The first […]
A Fate Worse than Death – Lost in the Bush
Mirror Perth – 27 December 1907, page 16 AUSTRALIAN BUSH YARN by Rodney Creek, an old Bushman Lost in the Bush It is doubtful if, for bodily and mental anguish, anything can much exceed the hardships of one who is lost in the bush, more especially so when those sufferings are accentuated by the lack […]
When There’s a Gold Rush, Sell Beer – John Glowrey
Coolgardie Pioneer, 11 December 1897, page 14 ONE OF THE PIONEERS. “I don’t want no pioneerin’; take me back to Collin’wood.” This was the strain sung by an Eastern states poet who visited, and was disgusted with, these goldfields in the early days. Fortunately for the country, the majority of the old-timers, although having to […]
Rogues Along the Coach Road from Kunanalling to Bonnie Vale
The Sun 28 June 1903, page 3 A TRIP FROM KUNANALLING TO BONNIE VALE by Cobb. Coming over from Siberia, I put up a night at Kunanalling, and had an opportunity to study the town and its inhabitants. Two or three dismal lights illuminated the principal thoroughfare, a rather lengthy street dotted with a store, […]
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