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The Kalgoorlie Hotel – Judds pub

28/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

  Kalgoorlie Hotel ‘Judds Pub’. Hannan Street Kalgoorlie This photo is not one often seen of this well know local iconic building. Built c 1896 from ‘white stone’ it has remained a going concern ever since. It hasn’t always been called ‘Judds’ it was named as such from James (Judd) Mahony who gave his nick […]

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

Found Dead – a verse

28/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The suns fierce beams are striking From out the cloudless sky, And a weary man is toiling On the sand plain drear and dry. His tongue is swollen and blackening And his eyes are dimmed and blurred How he longs for the sight of timber; Fringing some streamlet clear! He shades his throbbing eyeballs With […]

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

The Graves of Horseman’s Gully – grave tales

27/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

WARNING:- Graphic content of grave remains that may upset some people. In 1995 Forsyth-Plutonic Gold Mining held the mining lease of an area that included burials at Horseman’s Gully near Darlot in the Murchison. Under mining law, it is prohibited to mine within 100 yards of a know burial site. This posed a problem for […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Darlot, Goldfields History, Horsemans Gully, Western Australia

Davyhurst -ghost towns

21/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following information was supplied by Julia Flavel: My Gt, Gt Uncle Walter (Wattie) Davys found gold in Davyton now Davyhurst. It is our understanding it was named after him. The Davy came from his name and the Hurst from Hurstone farm which was the name of the farm they left behind in England before […]

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

In Search of Mordaunt Reid:

21/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

More than one third of the 62,000 Anzacs who died in WW1 are still listed as missing with no known graves. This is the story of one woman who never stopped looking for her soldier. Lieutenant Mordaunt Reid was paid the ultimate accolade by war historian and correspondent, Charles Bean, on the morning of the […]

Filed Under: People, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia, WW1

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