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The Ghost of Goya River –

01/04/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail 10 March 1938, page 10 The Ghost of Goya River by Jim O’Brien, This series of reminiscences has been gathered in years of roamin’ around, and stowed deep down in my old memory-box are scenes and sounds of other days. And, though life’s road grows rougher, so to speak, and the grades are […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Goldfields History

How the Black Camel Came for Clyde Firebrace

25/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Kalgoorlie Western Argus -25 December 1900, page 56 HOW THE BLACK CAMEL CAME FOR CLYDE FIREBRACE A Story of the W A Goldfields. by F. Wills Johnson. The man who told me this strange story, Bryce V Fairclough, is one of whom naught but good is spoken, and whose words are of a truth unvarnished. […]

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

Crimes of Passion in Kanowna

04/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Crimes of passion are not something new, and they happened in the early Goldfields days just as they do today, but the town of Kanowna seems to have had more than its fair share in its short history. The following three stories. Sadly there are no photographs of any of the people in these dramas. […]

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

Bulong Woodline 1908-1918 by Rod Milne

04/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

The following article is reproduced with the kind permission of the author Rod Milne and the Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc . The article first appeared in the publication, ‘Light Railways’ June 2014. A rare photograph of a loaded wood train posed at Kurramia. Motive power is almost certainly ex WAGR G 127 […]

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

The Shadow of Death Hotel & Tiger Tail Jerry

18/02/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

There was a man by the name of John Hawes who was a parish priest up to the 1930s in the Yalgoo/Murchison district. In a biography on his life he tells of how, after riding all day, he spent the night at a lonely wild spot with a well called the ‘Shadow of Death’. There […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Fields Find, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yalgoo

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