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The Old Coolgardie Road – a verse

30/11/2018 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

A FLITTING shadow follows The rushing night express; Dawn shades the eastern hollows And wakes the wilderness. And there across the valley One fleeting moment showed, Between the clump of mallee, The old Coolgardie road! No clouds of dust betoken The old-time roaring days; It keeps a peace unbroken Throughout its winding ways. But when […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Bush Poetry, Coolgardie, Dorham Doolette, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Kangaroo Dog – ‘Roo Dogs’

30/11/2018 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

The first Australian dog breed ever created, was the Australian Kangaroo dog, today known as a Staghound. Another names these dogs is ‘roo dog’. The first Australian dog breed ever created, was the Australian Kangaroo dog, today known as a Staghound. Other names these dogs go by is roo dog. The kangaroo dog type was […]

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

The Pauley Bros – pioneer profile

10/11/2018 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Mr Edward Pauley was the senior partner in the firm of Pauley Bros, produce merchants of Boulder. He was born in Bendigo Victoria on the 5 Apr 1869. He was the son of the late Edward Pauley, a farmer, who was one of the first to prove the existence of payable gold in Bendigo. Mr […]

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

The Mysterious Mr Bradley – a family story

06/11/2018 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The comment ‘not another Lionel’ is a long-standing joke, between a good friend of mine and fellow historian, Graeme Sisson, who was the Archivist of the Police Historical Soc of WA at the time. It came to refer to any research inquiry that we were working on that was more than a little complicated and […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Menzies, Pilkington, Western Australia

Western Australian Heritage Trails-

04/11/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Back in 2001, I approached what was then called the WA Heritage Committee, to ask if there was any likelihood that the booklet on the ‘York to Goldfields Heritage Trail’ in the WA Heritage Trails Network – Bicentennial Project for Community Participation series of books, might be updated. My husband and I have attempted to […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Goldfields History, Western Australia

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