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Black Range Pioneers – Where is ”Frenchy?

23/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times 28 June 1908, page 3 BLACK RANGE PIONEERS       “Where is ”Frenchy ?” There appeared in a recent issue of the Sunday Times, a paragraph relating to the original discoverers of Black Range, fourteen years ago in 1892. It was founded on the statement of one of them, McIntyre, as was published […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Black Range, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Abbotts Cemetery – Yoothapina Station

09/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Abbotts Cemetery (Yoothapina Station) Formerly know as Abbotts Find Reserve 6980 and 22406 AZIZ Abdul — 43yrs, d 29 Apr 1900, at Abbotts GM employed by the Yagahong Co, Bitten by a camel on 20th April which broke his leg, He died on the 29th April from shock after and operation to amputate his leg, […]

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

The Breakaway Brewery:

02/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Black Range Brewery, or the Breakaway Brewery as it was also known, began trading in August of 1907 with the proprietor as Joseph Vincent Kearney, an Irishman born in 1873 at Ballymoon, Co Carlow Ireland. The manager was Michael ‘Mick’ Dempsey. It was located on the Maninga Marley Road, 4.8 kilometers from Sandstone. What […]

Filed Under: Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Black Range, Brewery, Goldfields History, Sandstone, Western Australia

The Importance of Being Gordon:

19/12/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

GORDON Latitude 30° 27′ S Longitude 121° 35′ E Gordon is an abandoned eastern goldfields townsite about 35 km north north east of Kalgoorlie. The development of gold mines in the area in 1896 created a need for a townsite. The townsite was gazetted in 1897. It is not known who the name commemorates, but […]

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

Its a Grand Name:

12/12/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

As some of you may be aware, the ‘Grand Hotel’ has been a popular name for Hotels everywhere, and many towns would have their own ‘Grand Hotel’. Here are just a few from the WA Goldfields: Let me know if I have missed any (:

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

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