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Black Range Pioneers – Where is ”Frenchy?

23/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times 28 June 1908, page 3 BLACK RANGE PIONEERS       “Where is ”Frenchy ?” There appeared in a recent issue of the Sunday Times, a paragraph relating to the original discoverers of Black Range, fourteen years ago in 1892. It was founded on the statement of one of them, McIntyre, as was published […]

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

When Death Creeps In –

16/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

West Australian – Perth WA – 6 January 1934, page 4 WHEN DEATH CREEPS IN A Tale of a Mine. By Ion L. Idriss, author of ‘Flynn of the Inland It is nasty, facing death down below, whether under sea or land. Sam Ure worked doggedly though uneasily, for the ground was creaking, a subterranean […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Sandstone, Western Australia

The Old Terbaccy Tin –

16/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Old Terbaccy Tin – In 1985 Dan Callaghan died and was buried in the Sandstone Cemetery. This poem was dedicated to him and all of the other old times who will forever provide us with inspiration:   I found him lying by the road So I shut the old truck down And made him […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History

Left Waiting at the Church:

09/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

WAITING AT THE CHURCH. PLIGHT OF A PAIR IN PICCADILLY A Brace of Boulderites Kept Waiting at the Matrimonial Starting Barrier— For the Parson who ” Forgot.” 11th April 1909 A NOW HAPPY PAIR (since they are married) who, for the best part of an hour, on Wednesday afternoon last, feared that their chance of […]

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

Macquarie’s Dog-

09/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Geraldton Advertiser 13 November 1896, page 3 That There Dog o’ Mine From Henry Lawson’s ” While the Billy Boils.” Macquarie the shearer had met with an accident. To tell the truth, he had been in a drunken row at a wayside shanty, from which he had escaped with three fractured ribs, a cracked head, […]

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

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