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Darcy Uhr’s Bell Bird – by John Drayton

19/09/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Smith’s Weekly, Sydney, Saturday 19 February 1927, page 21 WEST AUSTRALIAN pioneers who remember Norman Sligo and Harry Swincer, will be glad to know that Norman is doing well in New Zealand. He is general manager of the Anderson’s Bay quarries at Dunedin. He and Swincer were early on at Mt Magnet and with the […]

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

The Back Country Honors its Dead

19/09/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times – Sunday 29 September 1912, page 11 THE GRAVE OF A PIONEER Walter B (S) Williams –  the Prospector of Mt Ida Wandering about the goldfields of this State, away from the beaten paths, it may be, one sometimes unexpectedly happens across a lonely grave. Sometimes, but very rarely, it’s merely a mound […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Menzies, Mt Ida, Western Australia

A clock on the wall – Lindell Jewellers

19/09/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

In 2008 I was contacted by Kirsti Hiekka Langbein who lives in Finland, and who was seeking information on her Grandfather who was a jeweller in early Kalgoorlie. We corresponded for some time and I was able to tell her that the clock in the Kalgoorlie town hall chambers was made by Lindell’s Jewellers, as was […]

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

John Hindhaugh – grave tales

05/09/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

John Hindhaugh was born in Northumberland England in 1870, the son of William and Elizabeth Hindhaugh, and he died in Perth on the 19th Aug 1958 aged 88yrs. His ashes were scattered on the gardens at Karrakatta Cemetery. He is not known to have ever married. At the age of 14 years he canceled his […]

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

The Boy from Maryborough – grave tales

05/09/2020 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Copy of extract taken from Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser – 4 Nov 1907 OLD MARYBOROUGH BOY Mr William Henry STANLEY On Wednesday last there arrived in Maryborough from Kalgoorlie, Mr W.H. Stanley, Manager of the Kalgoorlie Electric Tramways Ltd. Mr Stanley’s mother and father, who are still living, are two of the oldest identities of […]

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

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