The people of the Goldfields

The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things

The Man in a Mining Camp – by N E Gledhill

23/09/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Men In A Mining Camp – A tale by N.E. Gledhill This ‘Ripping Yarn’ from the pen of N E Gledhill is kindly shared by his Great Nephew Allen Gledhill with thanks: As soon as I had explored the empty, hollow-sounding rooms of our new house in Boulder, I saw with delight that a huge […]

Life in the Australian Backblocks

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THE BOUNDARY RIDER by Edward S Sorenson Life in the Australian Backblocks. The bush claims many lonely lives, none lonelier perhaps than that of the boundary rider, who is posted on the outskirts of a run to look after the stock, to watch the tanks and waterholes, and keep the boundary and intermediate fences in […]

A Dastardly Deed in Lefroy Street –

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Coolgardie Miner 28 December 1897, page 5 SENSATIONAL SHOOTING. Attempted Murder by Four Armed Men A party of shop workers was held up in Forrest Street Coolgardie by two armed and masked men. There is so far no known motive for the dastardly crime and no arrests have been made. The police are baffled. One […]

Yuin Reef Mine Cemetery –

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Yuin Reef Mine Cemetery 27°56’379″S 116°09’06.8″E Yuin Cemetery also known as Yuin Station Cemetery situated in the Mid-West region of Western Australia. Yuin Station, the Yuin Reef Townsite and Royal Standard Mine have historic and social significance for their role in the development of the Shire. The cemetery is now no longer in use and […]

The Donkey Man

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The Mirror 14 December 1935, page 25 The Donkey Man – Sun-Tanned Outbacker Who Travelled 19,000Miles Now Cooks for Well-Sinkers on W.A. Station Most Western Australians retain vivid recollections of ‘the man with the donkey’ — the gallant A.I.F. man who with a donkey in the Hades of Gallipoli’s shot and shell conveyed wounded men […]