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The Prince and the Diggers Daughter-

21/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Nambucca and Bellinger News 6 May 1932, page 5 A TALE OF THE GOLDFIELDS written by JAMES GRAYSON for the “Nambucca News” When gold is calling, however tortuous the road, civilised men all the world over (and some women, too) will overcome all apparent impossible obstacles, reaching their objective often in the last stage of […]

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

Margaret Alice Lynch – grave tales

21/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

103 yrs ago Margaret Alice Lynch died at age 68 yrs and was buried in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery on the 21st Sept 1917 in grave number 4986. This impressive memorial is in a double plot, but she is buried there alone. She is buried close to her son, William Reilly, […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

The World Well Lost for Love:

21/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Story of Bob and Jack – Bunbury Herald 5 June 1907, page 3 A PROSPECTOR’S SACRIFICE By R. M. Cochrane Every prospector knows the dreary tracts of the Mount Margaret goldfields of Western Australia, but few are acquainted with the unspeakable dreariness of the tracks beyond, leading to the McDonnell ranges. So far as […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Erlistoun, Goldfields History, Prospectors

The Prospector – by Twighlight

21/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Geraldton Express 22 August 1906, page 4 “THE PROSPECTOR.” Here’s a song for the sturdy prospector, For the men who have blazed the track ; For the men who have borne the hardships, And have opened the Fields–Out Back. With a supply that was scant they started . With the pick and the water-bag ; […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Bush Poetry, Goldfields History, Western Australia

My Life on the Golden Mile – Tony Bozich

14/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Up to ten years of age and 1949 when my family moved to Boulder and up close to the Golden Mile, I lived in central Brookman Street, halfway between the police station and the brothels as I like to tell people. Opposite the Catholic Church lived a schoolmate of mine, Graham Darcy whose father, if […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

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