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Dastardly and Diabolical Deed at Day Dawn

02/11/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Evening Mail – Fremantle 23 March 1908, page 1 No one will deny that Harry Goninon Smith, who at 8 o’clock this morning paid, on the scaffold at the Fremantle Prison, the last penalty for the supreme crime in the criminal calendar, was the murderer of the man, William John Clinton at Day Dawn. No […]

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

Coolgardie Pioneer Cemetery – a picturesque and pathetic ceremony

26/10/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Western Argus 3 November 1903, page 19 UNVEILING THE PROSPECTORS MEMORIAL CROSS A picturesque and pathetic ceremony was seen at the unveiling of the pioneers’ memorial this day. In the early nineties, a small plot of ground was set apart as a cemetery. It is not more than a quarter of an acre and […]

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

Mick of the Murchison – ‘Doing Time’

26/10/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail 8 July 1937, page 11 The Dolly Pot – Over the Plates. “Doing Time.” In Tuckanarra, a mining town about 25 miles north of Cue, there resided in the late 1800s, a man named Mick. He was an excellent judge of a horse, a good rider and bushman, and knew to a penny […]

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

The Importance of Being Frank – grave tales

26/10/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Bernard Joseph Frank was born in Nelson Lyell, New Zealand, in 1867. He was a miner and was the son of Jacob FRANK (Carpenter) and Mary HASLAM. He first went to Victoria and then on to the WA Goldfields in 1893, where he headed to Broad Arrow to seek his fortune. This was where his […]

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

A Well Known Wedding Photo –

19/10/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Many of our readers will have seen this well-known wedding photograph featured in the ‘Wedding Breakfast’ room in the British Arms section of the WA Museum Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Kalgoorlie. However, you may not know about the bride and groom and the others in the image. The wedding breakfast in the photo was taken at the […]

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

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