I received the following letter back in 2016 – I wonder what became of the old church. Gnowangerup has a bit of Boulder History in the form of a Church, Presbyterian/Methodist/Uniting. In 1922, this church was dismantled in Boulder, transported and re-erected here in Gnowangerup. About 2 years ago, the Church was decommissioned and sold, […]
Kookaburra’s Gold: Alec Epis Tale of Grit and Glory –
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Alessandro ‘Alec’ EPIS ‘Kookaburra’ by Tony De Bolfo – Aug 2006 Alec Epis never married or fathered any children, but he’s never been lonely. That he says is the legacy of his Italian upbringing in one of Australia’s most inhospitable environments. “They were hard days but they were happy days”, Alex said of his boyhood […]
Cuddingwarra’s Golden Days: A Murchison Boom and Bust
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CUDDINGWARRA Latitude 27° 22′ S Longitude 117° 47′ E Cuddingwarra was a townsite in the Murchison goldfields near Cue. When gold was first discovered in the area in 1888, the place was known as “Dead Finish”, but when the government gazetted a townsite in 1895, Cuddingwarra was the name chosen. Cuddingwarra is the Aboriginal name […]
Death in the Dark: Unravelling Marin Trdervich’s Fate
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Sunday Times 26 December 1937, page 2 MURDER IN THE DARK Who Killed Marin Trdervich Peculiar Circumstances in the Boulder Tragedy Dead Man’s Mate Talks to “The Sunday Times” Who was the man dimly seen in the darkness of a Boulder street on Monday night, engaged in the act that brought death to 45-year-old Marin […]
Where Belinda Bought the Drinks –
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Where Belinda Bought the Drinks by Andree Hayward – 1896 In the outback pub, it was always known when ‘womenfolk’ would be arriving in town. The news could never be kept secret. When the weekly coach arrived, all eyes would be on the lookout to catch a glimpse of the ‘new girl’. There was no […]
