BLACK FLAG R H Henning and party pegged the Black Flag lease which in October 1894 was reported to be ‘doing very well.’ The property was sold the following year to Lord Sudley’s syndicate for £48,000. By this time men were opening up their claims, many with good results. In December of the following year, […]
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
Lancefield Memories
Western Mail 9 November 1950, page 14 Goldfields life had its pleasures and a few tragedies by Caryndon Over 40 years have passed since I went to Lancefield as a young bride. The train was late and we drove through the hot night over a rough, uneven track with a lantern swinging at the back […]
Uren Golden Wedding
Western Mail 1 October 1915, page 7 A Golden Wedding On Saturday, September 18, Mr and Mrs Uren, of Kelmscott, celebrated their golden wedding in the presence of all their, children and grandchildren, numbering 25. Mr and Mrs Uren arrived in South Australia from Cornwall in December 1865, and went first to Kapunda, a copper […]
The Great Unwashed Preserver of the Peace
Sunday Times Perth – 7 November 1909, page 1 Jolly’s Bath – by Spinifex It was hot, something like 100 deg in the Victoria Hotel passage, and about 120 in the police tents. The ‘cosmopolites’ of the old camp were as cool as they could get in common khaki, pants and soft shirts, the latter […]
Tom Riseley – a man who blazed the track
Sunday Times – 16 January 1910, page 3 THE DEATH OF TOM RISELEY A MAN WHO BLAZED THE TRACK Tom Riseley (Thomas Randle Riseley) one of the men who helped materially to make Westralia what she is today, went on the last “long journey” from the Perth Government Hospital on Thursday night. Twenty-one years before, […]
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