The Heat Wave When the earth was parched and the sky aflame When the old year slept beyond praise or blame In an evil moment a heatwave came Some dropped the pen and some dropped the pick Some were dying, and some more were sick And sunstroke cases came fast and thick Creation dropped in […]
Mr Schumann – a man of enterprise
Margaret Hartley’s ancestors had a long and varied history in the Murchison district of Western Australia. She has very kindly sent me the following photographs and details of the Schumann family. GULLEWA GOLDFIELDS – The W A Record 27th Feb 189 Gullewa Goldfield is situated N.E. from Mingenew 80 miles, and east of Wurarga on […]
A Woodline Childhood by Ron Matthews
From the late 1890s until the early 1950s because all heavy machinery was steam-driven, vast quantities of wood were required to fuel the boilers, coal was too expensive. Consequently, Wood Lines were born. The last surviving company was “The Western Australian Goldfields Firewood Supply Limited” which ceased operations in 1964. From early 1946 until the […]
Christmas Tragedy at Day Dawn –
I have read of many tales of hardship and terrible accidents over the years, but the following story is, without doubt, one of the saddest and most tragic of all I have ever come across. I first read about it some time ago when I was contacted by Ian Leithhead, who asked me to assist […]
The Mining Expert –
In the first days of the Coolgardie field, any man game enough to sign himself M.E. (Mining Expert) could put his story over. So-called ‘Mining Experts’ were characteristic of the Coolgardie field especially from 1893 to 1896. Most were self-styled ‘Captains of Industry’ and had most of the letters of the alphabet after their names. […]
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