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The Eyes Behind the Lens –

12/12/2020 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

I think that Photographers are the people who have the least photographs of themselves. Mainly of course, because they are usually on the ‘other’ end of the lens. When I do happen to come across a photographers photo, I always take note.  For example, the photo you will see below of Newman HALL. He was […]

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

The Ghosts of Red Flag Well

05/12/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sophie Chapman died at the Ajax GM lease at Red Flag on the Mt Margaret Goldfields. 12 miles south west of Laverton and 2 miles from the Hawks Nest Rail Siding. Buried alongside Alexander McDONALD (age 27)  100 meters ESE of the old Red Flag Well. Sophie Chapman and Alexander McDonald were killed by the […]

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

John Fitzpatrick – Plumber and Tinsmith.

05/12/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

John Fitzpatrick – Written by Susie de Monchaux John “Fitz” Fitzpatrick ran a plumbing and ironwork business on the corner of Ford and Sylvester Street, Coolgardie from 1896 to 1900. Family legend tells that John Fitzpatrick was born in South Australia in 1861, however, it was in Western Australia where he made his life. He […]

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

Diver Hughes – The Hero of Coolgardie

28/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Cecil Albert Francis Herbert ‘Frank’ HUGHES was born on 11th Nov 1861 in Wrexham, North Wales, and educated at Ruabon Grammar School, he was the eldest son of Thomas Edward HUGHES and Mary THOMAS. Frank showed early on that he was of a roving and adventurous disposition. To satisfy his strong desire to go to […]

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

Russian Jack – the other J F K

21/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift:  a journal of bush history Russian Jack and Synchronicity  –    by Diane Oldman I rather thought I had made up the word ‘synchronicity’ and when I attempted to look it up in several dictionaries I couldn’t find it. So I decided it was a new noun – my noun. Then […]

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

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