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A Gallant Young Hero

21/09/2017 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Sunday Times – Perth – 5 April 1914, page 7 The Knickerbocker Hero The Little Lennonville Hero were some of the words used to describe Vincent Atkinson, a young boy of just ten years of age, who was to inspire West Australians with his presence of mind and his ‘heart of a lion’ after he […]

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

Mystery Box – in the Gala Annual Show!

15/09/2017 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

I came across this following photograph dated 20 Sep 1900 and immediately thought that the wooden item in the top of the display looked very much like the case which held the petition for separation from the rest of Western Australia. Im not sure if they were the makers of the box but it looks […]

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

Did she fall or was she pushed? – Annie Solly

07/09/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Life for a single woman on the Goldfields of Western Australia could be very hard. Annie Solly seems to have been a young woman who could look after herself and she appeared in the newspapers several times for things such as drunk and disorderly. On New Years Day 1902 she was arrested and charged 10 […]

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

Liquid Gold – a tribute to Hannans Lager

13/08/2017 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

Suppliment to the Kalgoorlie Miner 22 april 1989:- The closure of the Hannans Brewery in Brookman Street, Kalgoorlie, had many resident crying in their beer. The future of the local brewery was put in doubt in the late 1970‘s when beer drinkers developed a taste for the Swan Breweries, Emu Export Lager, but Paddy Hannans namesake […]

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

Murder and Suicide at Nannine –

31/07/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Inquirer and Commercial News  29 March 1895, page 6 THE RECENT TRAGEDY AT NANNINE. THE MURDER OF JOHN SUTHERLAND. SUICIDE OF HIS ASSAILANT. THE INQUEST. Full details reached the Murchison Times by the last mail regarding: the murder and suicide which occurred at Nannine about a fortnight ago. A brief account, received by wire, appeared […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, murder, Nannine, Western Australia

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