Coolgardie was booming, diggers who had struck it rich were as common as sand flies; money was easy to come by and even easier to lose. If you wanted to part with what you had in a hurry, ‘Hughie the Baker’ or ‘Handsome Jack Wilson’, the town’s leading professional gamblers would assist you in your […]
Frederick Vosper – firebrand and agitator
The son of a civil engineer, Charles Watson Vosper, Frederick Charles Burleigh Vosper was born in St Dominick, Cornwall in England and educated at Truro. He immigrated to Bolivia at the age of 15. Few other details of his early life are known, but in 1885, he was at Devonport serving with the Royal Navy on […]
Wings Over the Wilderness: A Thrilling Australian Epic
Dive into a tale that’s a bit longer than our usual posts (grab a cup of tea!), but trust me, it’s a gripping, real-life adventure straight out of the pages of Boys’ Own Magazine. A huge thanks to Bob Sommerville for sharing the original article. Western Mail 5 January 1933 AN OUTBACK EPIC – AIR […]
Selling the Show by The Floater
Western Mail Perth – 28 January 1937, page 13 Selling the Show by The Floater – Bulong. Dear Non-Com -This is a true story concerning the Mt. Katherine mine near Kookynie. It is about 25 miles out on the Edjudina road. I had Ted Kerry (not his real name), one of the original prospectors, camped […]
Speakman’s Find: The Fleeting Glory of Callion’s Gold
Callion – Western Australia AKA Speakman’s Find Latitude 30° 07′ S Longitude 120° 34′ E Gold was discovered here by prospectors James Speakman, Cooke and Lukin in 1895, in an outcrop of quartz. The location was initially known as Speakman’s Find, until the town was gazetted as Callion in 1897. This name is thought to […]
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