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Sailor Bill’s Elopement –

17/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Sun Kalgoorlie 22 September 1907, page 6 THE ROARING NINETIES A BULLA BULLING ROMANCE SAILOR BILL’S ELOPEMENT (By Spinifex). Many of the boys of the old brigade have disappeared. They were a roving lot, and when the share boom collapsed in ’97, and the demand for “properties” had petered out, they booked for various […]

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Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Bulla Bulling, Goldfields History, Hotels

Black Flag – ghost town

17/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

BLACK FLAG R H Henning and party pegged the Black Flag lease which in October 1894 was reported to be ‘doing very well.’ The property was sold the following year to Lord Sudley’s syndicate for £48,000. By this time men were opening up their claims, many with good results. In December of the following year, […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Black Flag, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Lancefield Memories

17/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Mail 9 November 1950, page 14 Goldfields life had its pleasures and a few tragedies by Caryndon Over 40 years have passed since I went to Lancefield as a young bride. The train was late and we drove through the hot night over a rough, uneven track with a lantern swinging at the back […]

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Uren Golden Wedding

17/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Western Mail 1 October 1915, page 7 A Golden Wedding On Saturday, September 18, Mr and Mrs Uren, of Kelmscott, celebrated their golden wedding in the presence of all their, children and grandchildren, numbering 25. Mr and Mrs Uren arrived in South Australia from Cornwall in December 1865, and went first to Kapunda, a copper […]

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Filed Under: People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Southern Cross, Western Australia

The Great Unwashed Preserver of the Peace

10/06/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times Perth – 7 November 1909, page 1 Jolly’s Bath – by Spinifex It was hot, something like 100 deg in the Victoria Hotel passage, and about 120 in the police tents. The ‘cosmopolites’ of the old camp were as cool as they could get in common khaki, pants and soft shirts, the latter […]

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Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Goldfields History, police history, Western Australia

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