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An Unlucky Gamble – by Big Jim Allanson

23/07/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Dolly Pot – Western Mail, Perth – 21 November 1940, page 8 OVER THE PLATES An Unlucky Gamble. DEAR “Non-Com,” Early in the “Roaring Nineties,” Billy Collins, Ned Campion, Barney – and I were camped at a pool ten miles west of Cue. At the south end of the pool, flies were making short work […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Prosperity of Southern Cross – 1936

23/07/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail – Perth  24 December 1936, page 16 THE PROSPERITY OF SOUTHERN CROSS NEW TOWN HALL OPENED SOUTHERN CROSS was in a gala mood last Wednesday. The cause of many arrangements, official and festive, was the opening of a new ornament to the district’s civic architecture, an imposing Town Hall surmounted by a high […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Southern Cross, Western Australia

Kundana – The town that never was!

16/07/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kundana is situated 25kms west-northwest of Kalgoorlie and 27 km nor-northeast of Coolgardie. In the 1890s the area was known informally as the ’21 Mile’ because it was 21 miles from Coolgardie on the Black Flag Road. Other unofficial names used were ‘Barkers Find’ after the first prospector in the area and also ‘White Flag’ […]

Filed Under: Books, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Barkers Find, Goldfields History, Kundana, Western Australia, White Flag

The Crown for the Queen of the Murchison

16/07/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo Goldfields Chronicler – 26 March 1897 Parer’s Crown Hotel, Cue, is one of the most popular resorts for visitors and residents of the town at which to make their home while on the fields. The name of Parer Bros is well known to everyone who has ever been in […]

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

Laverton Cemetery update –

16/07/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Over the last 18 months, one of my dedicated volunteers, David Senn, has been working on revising and researching the records we have on the Laverton Cemetery. The finished list is now on the website at  Laverton Cemetery. (I say finished, but I really mean the best we can make it at the moment, no […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Laverton, Western Australia

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