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Linden Cemetery – grave tales

03/02/2024 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Linden Cemetery (formerly Griffithston) Reserve 4683 S 29° 17.32, E 122° 25.28 The first burial was in 1899 when the cemetery was gazetted and it was not until 1911 that the second occurred. In 1915 the local residents wrote to the Dept of Works to ask “ we are enquiring of you as the best […]

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

Yellowdine – the people on the field (Part 2)

27/01/2024 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

This is Part 2 of the story of Yellowdine – To read the first part go here:  Yellowdine – A walk through a canvas town West Australian 17 April 1935, page 25 YELLOWDINE The People on the Field There is to be found on the purple veldt of South Africa, a certain shrub which, when […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Palmers Find, Western Australia, Yellowdine

Linden – ghost town

27/01/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Linden the wounds of the golden game Linden is an abandoned townsite in the eastern goldfields, 75 km south of Laverton on the southern side of Lake Carey. Gold was discovered in this area in the mid-1890s, and in 1896 Warden Owen suggested a townsite be created. Owen used the name Griffithston for the place, […]

Filed Under: Books, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Goldfields History, Linden, Western Australia

Frank Ernest RANDELL & CO.

27/01/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Weekly Times (Melbourne VIC) – 10 September 1898, page 48 Frank Ernest Randell & Co. Messrs F E. Randell and Co. are well known on the West Australian goldfields as carrying and forwarding agents. Their head office is at Fremantle, having lately been transferred to that rising port, from the goldfields, and there are branches […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, They were 1st Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Menzies, Norseman, Western Australia

The Gold Seekers of Central Australia –

20/01/2024 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Sunday Times 16 August 1931, page 1 Gold Seekers of Central Australia Government Geologist Blatchford Accompanies Expedition- Sydney Syndicate’s Efforts to Locate Rich Reef Documents Left by Dead Prospector Gold! What a magic spell the word casts over most people, and what a magnet the elusive metal is to tens of thousands of adventurous souls! […]

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

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