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Niagara’s Rise – by Nick Roberts

01/02/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

by Nick Roberts 20 Jan 1919 – Time Gents Australian Pub Project Mrs Clara Paton Recalls – The Western Mail (Perth) on October 30 1952: NIAGARA’S RISE “IN February, 1895, Dorrie Doolette and Charley Northmore arrived at the 90-mile and asked my husband, Arthur Williams, the licensee of the 90-Mile Hotel, if they could put […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kookynie, Niagara

A Racing Man from Tipperary – grave tales

01/02/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

FATAL MINING ACCIDENT IN THE PERSEVERANCE MINE – MAN FALLS DOWN A PASS. Richard Ryan, a well known citizen of Boulder, met with an instantaneous death in the Great Boulder Perseverance. Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 – 1916), Tuesday 17 March 1908, page 17 On Wednesday 11th March about 9.30 a.m. the deceased and […]

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

Why Can’t the Kids be Always Young?

01/02/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Why Can’t the Kids Be Always Young? by (Edwin Greenslade Murphy) Dryblower Murphy 1926 Published first in the Sunday Times 28 Apr 1918 pg 6 with some differences Why can’t the kids be always young? Why must they grow from babyhood To hear life’s sordid stanzas sung; By souls too clearly understood? Why must we […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Dryblower Murphy, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Burley Bill and the Cemetery Rush – by Ted Rowell

25/01/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Neil McLeod, with his partner, Syd Ward, had the license at the primitive Exchange Hotel, a galvanized iron structure at the corner of Hannan and Maritana Sts, Kalgoorlie. Talk would turn to athletics and one of the customers who fancied he could run would be ‘chivied’ by Neil McLeod. McLeod would say “I don’t think […]

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

A gift of Light and Water:

25/01/2020 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 – 1916), Tuesday 8 February 1910, page 25 PUBLIC DRINKING FOUNTAIN- Mr. George P. Doolette’s Gift to Kalgoorlie The public drinking fountain now on its way out from London to West Australia, the subject of this illustration has been presented by Mr. George P. Doolette, a prominent figure in […]

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

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