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An Explosive Situation

04/10/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Menzies Miner 20 February 1897, page 11 The Kanowna Explosion MATCH DROPPED INTO CASK OF RUM. DEATH OF ONE OF THE INJURED MEN An accident resulting in serious injury to several persons occurred at the White Feather Hotel today, when a match dropped in a cask of spirit caused  a terrific explosion. Mr Cole, proprietor […]

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

The Black Range Pioneers – “Where is Frenchy?”

15/09/2019 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 in the […]

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

First WA Union and Labor Congress 1899:

14/09/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Back Row: John Reside (A.C.D.C.A), R Hancock (Trades and Labor Council), Robert Hastie (AWA), William Fraser (AWA), James W Nevill (AWA), M H O’Connor (AWA), L Larney (Loco Drivers Assoc), William Stewart (AWA), J McCarthy (Bootmakers Union) Middle Row: R Balmire, R Pugh (Bakers Union), S R Hill (Boilermakers) , Fergie Reid (AWA), W Diver […]

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

The Bardoc Murder –

24/08/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The grave of the victim of the unsolved Bardoc murder is on the bank of the creek leading down from Lindsay’s Soak, which is crossed by the road from the Dark Horse (mine) to the Bellvue (mine) about three miles east of Grants Patch. The fenced grave is on the North bank of the creek, […]

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

Typhoid : digging for gold often ended in digging a grave

10/08/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Typhoid Lives on the waterless goldfields were lost not only from thirst alone but also from typhoid. In the 1890s, typhoid was endemic throughout Australia. It struck at Perth, Western Australia’s capital itself, in established outlying centres such as Northam and at temporary townships on the road to the goldfields such as Woolgangie. But the lack […]

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

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