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‘Bold McManaway’ – publican and gentleman

30/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

From Finder of Relics February 16, 2021 JOHN MCMANAWAY OF CUE, BLACK RANGE AND SANDSTONE Author – Vivienne Sinclair. John McManaway was born in Roscommon, Ireland in 1863. He moved to Victoria, Australia and by the age of 21 years had married Mary Glover. They had 6 children and by 1895 the family had moved […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Black Range, Cue, Goldfields History, Sandstone, Western Australia

Sir Samuel Cemetery –

09/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sir Samuel / Mt Sir Samuel Cemetery “With lonely old graves where departed souls sleep, Where a merciful god a vigil must keep Till the trumpet is heard on that final last day Let us never disturb them, just leave them that way’   Sir Samuel Townsite Cemetery Sign Yakabindi Station East of Bellevue Mine […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Mt Sir Samuel, Sir Samuel, Western Australia

The Farren’s of the Falls Hotel – by Jill Peady

24/02/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Prologue:  Thomas Farren was born in 1857 in Seascale in the west of England where the Sellafield nuclear power station is today. Mary Elizabeth ‘Polly’ Farren nee Saunders, was born in Birmingham in 1863. They were married in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1879, at which time Mary could not read or write. They lived […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Hotels, Kookynie, Menzies, Niagara, Western Australia

Erlistoun – ghost town

30/12/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Western Argus 13 December 1904, page 19 THE ERLISTOUN by V. Clausen Where is Erlistoun??? Latitude 27″ 59′ 03″ S Longitude 122″ 20′ 25″ East Mt Margaret Goldfields. Located 71.5 km north of Laverton at Borodale Creek once known as Mistake Creek. Erlistoun usually referred to as ‘The Erlistoun’ was never gazetted as a […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Hotels, People, Places & Towns, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Duketon, Erlistoun, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Captain Kettle and the Toorak Hotel –

26/11/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Toorak Hotel, built in 1899. On June 25, 1903, a fire destroyed the whole of the front of the hotel. Situated on the 90 Mile Road, in the early days this was the road out of Coolgardie on the North side. The hotel closed sometime in 1910. Licensee’s Harold B McCormick – 1900 E […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

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