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Gullewa Cemetery –

13/07/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Gullewa Cemetery – Reserve 3911 Coordinates: -28.5507826, 116.3726805 GULLEWA  GOLDFIELD – The W.A. Record 27th February 1897 The Gullewa Goldfield is situated N.E. from Mingenew 80 miles, and east of Wurarga on the Mullewa-Cue line, which is the nearest railway station, about 18 miles, and is only one day’s journey by rail from the Port […]

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

Russian Jack – the other J F K

13/07/2024 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 I […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Halls Creek, Western Australia

Ashton & Cocks – a furniture emporium

06/07/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Coolgardie Pioneer 24 October 1896, page 15 A Furniture Emporium in Coolgardie The above image affords our readers a view of Messrs Ashton and Cocks Furniture Emporium, the principal business of the kind in Coolgardie. which has a frontage of 23ft to Bayley Street and 165 ft in depth. The photographs of the two principals […]

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

Darcy Uhr’s Bell Bird –

06/07/2024 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Smith’s Weekly ‘Sydney’ 19 February 1927, page 21 West Australian pioneers who remember Norman Sligo and Harry Swincer, will be glad to know that Norman is doing well in New Zealand. He is general manager of the Anderson’s Bay quarries at Dunedin. He and Swincer were early on at Mt Magnet and with the Herbert’s […]

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

Captain Kettle at the Toorak Hotel –

06/07/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Toorak Hotel was 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. It closed sometime in 1910. Licensee’s Harold B McCormick – 1900 E […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Hotels, Toorak

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