Dolly Pot – Western Mail, Perth – 21 November 1940, page 8 OVER THE PLATES An Unlucky Gamble Early in the “Roaring Nineties,” Billy Collins, Ned Campion, Barney, and I were camped at a pool ten miles west of Cue. At the south end of the pool, flies were making short work of a horse […]
Navvies, Newlyweds and the Goldfields Dream
The Sun. Kalgoorlie 8 December 1901 North Country Notes by Pharisee Since the advent of the navvies with the Malcolm-Leonora railway construction, the Malcolm hash houses have received a severe shaking up. Formerly it was only possible to get a square feed if – like Oliver Twist — a man possessed the grit to ask […]
The Brewery on the Breakaway: Sandstone’s Beer-Making Marvel
The Black Range Brewery, or the Breakaway Brewery as it was also known, began trading in August of 1907 with the proprietor as Joseph Vincent Kearney, an Irishman born in 1873 at Ballymoon, Co Carlow, Ireland. The manager was Michael ‘Mick’ Dempsey. It was located on the Maninga Marley Road, 4.8 kilometres from Sandstone. What […]
Lost for Love – The Tragedy of Beth Maynard
The following story is one of the most unusual I have read for some time. It really does fit into the category of ‘Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales’. The story starts in South Australia and ends in NSW but has a WA Goldfields link. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, […]
A Bolt from the Blue: The Astonishing Experience of William Smith
Kalgoorlie Western Argus 28 January 1908, page 20 STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A Singular Experience There are probably few men who have been struck by lightning and have survived to tell the tale. One of them, if there are any others, is William Smith, from Kalgoorlie, who is depicted here as he appeared after his extraordinary […]
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