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Skeleton Gully by Arthur Watts

06/01/2024 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Mail 16 December 1898, page 102 Skeleton Gully by Arthur Watts I was bushed! After I had spent two hours vainly attempting to find the track, I sat down for a rest and a smoke, and I admitted to myself that I was really bushed. I had started from the township early in the […]

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

Mudgedeen – Cameleer and Grocer

06/01/2024 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The following photographs from the family album of Carole Hampton were sent to me recently. Mudgedeen was her husband’s Grandfather. Her husband is the son of Mudgedeen and Clara’s daughter Violet, from her second marriage. Mudgedeen, (AKA Charles), was born in 1873 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, the son of M Barradeen. He married Clara Ellen […]

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

How Mac Held the Bonnie Dundee

30/12/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

How Mac Held The Bonnie Dundee The Golden West Magazine 1921 For The  Golden West by JOHN DRAYTON “My apologies for the Scottish dialect, but it wouldn’t be the same if translated to plain English, hope you can make it out” In the early days of the Victorian goldfields, when , the present writer, was […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Claim jumpers, Goldfields History

James Webster Berry – Anzac Hero

30/12/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

I was recently sent the following story by Peter Davidson about his relative by marriage, James Webster Berry. He tells me that the widow of James Berry later married Claude Albo de Bernales. James Webster Berry (Reg 4207) was the son of George Berry who was born in 1838 in Fife Scotland and Mary Berry […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Soldiers Story, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

Erlistoun – ghost town

30/12/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Western Argus 13 December 1904, page 19 THE ERLISTOUN by V. Clausen Where is Erlistoun??? Latitude 27″ 59′ 03″ S Longitude 122″ 20′ 25″ East Mt Margaret Goldfields. Located 71.5 km north of Laverton at Borodale Creek once known as Mistake Creek. Erlistoun usually referred to as ‘The Erlistoun’ was never gazetted as a […]

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

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