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Hasty’s Grave – raised to glory

23/11/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Hasty’s Grave This grateful country cherishes the fine courageous band Who pioneered the wilderness, and founded our great land And so it is appropriate that the name of one so brave Be printed on our outback maps, marked simply ‘Hasty’s Grave’ And for those who wished to go there, and find the grave, perhaps Longitude […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns, Poets Corner Tagged With: Explorers, Goldfields History, Horse

The Niagara Football Club – a verse

12/10/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kookynie Advocate and Northern Goldfields News 31 October 1903, page 2 The Niagara Football Club. (With apologies to “Banjo” Patterson.) On Saturday 17th October 1903, after Niagara became football premiers, there was a grand wind-up at the Niagara Hotel where over fifty people sat down to a great feast. To mark this event the following […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Poets Corner, Sport, Towns and Places Tagged With: Goldfields History, Niagara, Western Australia

After the Crushings Over –

24/08/2024 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

After the Crushing’s Over by W Gregory. Our beers cut down, and our creditors frown, And it’s hard to raise a pot, But we’ve worked down hard on me and my pard, And found troubles quite a lot But they’ll soon be o’er, and we’ll pay our score And find ourselves in clover, Get off […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Men of the Rail – a verse

27/04/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Men of the Rail Through time and space in a furious race Spurning the midnight gales. The steel steel reels on flying wheels Over the shining rails; With a good cigar in the sleepy cars, Cosy and safe and warm, Ye pay small heed to the headlong speed And the men who breast the […]

Filed Under: Places & Towns, Poets Corner Tagged With: railway, Western Australia

My Country by Dorothy MacKellar

20/04/2024 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

I am sure that just about everyone would know or has heard the second verse of this wonderful verse beginning with ‘I love a sunburnt Country’  but not many would have read the full poem which is beautiful. I have given a short biography of the author below: My Country First Know as ‘Core of […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History

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