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Sailor Bill’s Elopement –

17/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Sun Kalgoorlie 22 September 1907, page 6 THE ROARING NINETIES A BULLA BULLING ROMANCE SAILOR BILL’S ELOPEMENT (By Spinifex). Many of the boys of the old brigade have disappeared. They were a roving lot, and when the share boom collapsed in ’97, and the demand for “properties” had petered out, they booked for various […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Bulla Bulling, Goldfields History, Hotels

Black Flag – ghost town

17/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

BLACK FLAG R H Henning and party pegged the Black Flag lease which in October 1894 was reported to be ‘doing very well.’ The property was sold the following year to Lord Sudley’s syndicate for £48,000. By this time men were opening up their claims, many with good results. In December of the following year, […]

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

Uren Golden Wedding

17/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Western Mail 1 October 1915, page 7 A Golden Wedding On Saturday, September 18, Mr and Mrs Uren, of Kelmscott, celebrated their golden wedding in the presence of all their, children and grandchildren, numbering 25. Mr and Mrs Uren arrived in South Australia from Cornwall in December 1865, and went first to Kapunda, a copper […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Southern Cross, Western Australia

Tom Riseley – a man who blazed the track

10/06/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times – 16 January 1910, page 3 THE DEATH OF TOM RISELEY A MAN WHO BLAZED THE TRACK Tom Riseley (Thomas Randle Riseley) one of the men who helped materially to make Westralia what she is today, went on the last “long journey” from the Perth Government Hospital on Thursday night. Twenty-one years before, […]

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

Harry ‘Tambo’ Taylor – Stockman of the Never Never

03/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

On the 19th of May 1924, Harry ‘Tambo ’Taylor applied to receive the old-age pension having reached the age of 65yrs. His application was refused as he couldn’t show proof of his age. Harry was born to an aboriginal mother and an Irish father in Glenalvon Station NSW in 1859. He had his mother’s skin […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns

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