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Outback Joe – a verse

04/01/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Sun, Sunday 11 June 1899, page 5 OUTBACK JOE A LEGEND OF THE 25-MILE. You miners of Westralia! attention grant, I pray, While I relate in doggerel, a plaintive sort of lay, Wherein a sharper kind of bloke— a half Finn-German Jew — Was introduced to Out-back Joe and shown a point or two. […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner

Oh God! put back the hands of time and give me yesterday:

28/12/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Goldfields Pioneers Reuniuon, Perth Town Hall, 23rd December 1929 The Truth –  Sunday 29 December 1929, page 1 THE TRAIL OF THE GOLDEN PAST GENTLEMEN ! To the memory of our comrades who have crossed the Great Divide! It was a striking and pathetic toast, as pathetic was the response Two hundred grizzled warriors of the West Australian […]

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

The Oldest Bike Store in Australia –

28/12/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Miner, Tuesday 24 December 1901, page 6 ARMSTRONG’S CYCLE AGENCY. The growth of the business of Armstrong’s Cycle Agency ever since its inception has been astonishing,  and it would probably be a very difficult matter to find a parallel case. The firm, which is the oldest in this line of business on the goldfields, […]

Filed Under: People, They were 1st Tagged With: Australian History, Cycle, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Beatrice Hemingway -grave tales

28/12/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

‘Died on Christmas Eve’  :    96yrs ago !!! Beatrice HOWARTH was married to Alfred William ‘Fred’ HEMINGWAY in Coolgardie in 1920. Only three years later she was to die in Southern Cross on Christmas Eve, 24th December 1923. Her husband was acting Station Master at Southern Cross at the time. She was expecting her […]

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

Along by Merry Christmas Time – Henry Lawson

28/12/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Along by Merry Christmas Time by Henry Lawson 1913 Along by merry Christmas time they buy the aged goose, And boil the dread plum pudding, because of ancient use. But to sneer at old time customs would be nothing but a crime,| For the memory of the Past is all bound up in Christmas time. […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner

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