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A Swearful Dryblower – a verse

11/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I am a digger at Mulgabbie and I’d like to rise and say Dryblowing is a swearful game to most diggers anyway. You work for days without a color, then have a lengthy swear that takes two solid windy days to cleanse the atmosphere. If an angel down from heaven had to dryblow for a […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History

The Sun – Not a Detective Agency

11/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Sun Newspaper was circulated in the Goldfields from 1898 to 1929 when the name was changed to The Goldfields Observer, which continued until 1939. Printed and published by Frank Walker for Kalgoorlie Newspapers, Ltd at their office, 51 Forrest Street, Kalgoorlie next to the Railway Hotel. The Sunday Times and “The Sun” newspapers of Western […]

Filed Under: Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Newspapers, Western Australia

A Mothers Despair – grave tales

11/09/2021 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

While recently researching the lives of those buried in the Peak Hill Cemetery, I came across this very sad and tragic story. Catherine and George Howard had married in 1895 and, up to the time of her death in 1908, Catherine and George had six children. Children: George Charles born 1896, George James born 1898, […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Peak Hill, Western Australia

Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 5th September 2021

04/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Hi Everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. This week I had the pleasure of meeting one of my volunteers in person as he was coming through Kalgoorlie. It doesn’t often happen that I do get to meet any of the many people who help me and who I am friends with online. It’s […]

Filed Under: About Outback Family History

A Most Prestigious Hotel:

04/09/2021 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

When driving to Perth from Kalgoorlie you may have seen a sign on the left not long after the Yellowdine Road House and before Moorine Rock, directing you to Mt Palmer. But have you ever ventured there??? In 1935 it was thought that Palmers Find (AKA Mt Palmer), 23 miles from Southern Cross, would become […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Mt Palmer, Palmers Find, Southern Cross

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