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

George Brockway: the forgotten conservationist

31/08/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

George Brockway: the forgotten conservationist by Roger Underwood Submitted by Ian Kealley My career as a forester, and the career of famous forester George Brockway, overlapped by exactly two days. On January 2nd, 1963, immediately after graduation from Forestry School, I was appointed an Assistant District Forest Officer and posted to the Forests Department’s […]

Leo Naughton is dead – a verse

31/08/2019 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Today is the anniversary of the death of a local man, Leo Naughton. The following verse was written in his honor by me, his childhood friend – Tony Bozich:- Someone said, “Leo Naughton is dead”, my friend of nine years schooling, who never a nasty word said whether at school or football or fooling. In […]

Bardoc Cemetery – a revival

24/08/2019 By Moya Sharp 6 Comments

On Friday the 16th August 2019, a ceremony was held out in the bush at the Bardoc Cemetery on Mt Vetters Station. It was to celebrate the culmination of almost three years work on a project started by Kellie Carter who owns the Bardoc Station House, and assisted by myself, Kellie is the third generation […]

Alfred Trevillian: A Football Odyssey

23/08/2019 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

This excerpt of my book is provided to Outback Family History. The excerpt focuses on Alf’s football experience on the WA Goldfields in 1904 and in the Perth competition in 1904-1905. To provide veracity and evidence to underpin the book’s commentary, I have spent the past six years collating results of every game of football played […]

A Lost and Desolate Wanderer –

17/08/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Evening Journal, Adelaide, 30 January 1894 A Terrible Experience at Coolgardie. A well-known and respected resident of Kent Town has received a letter from his son, who recently went to Coolgardie from Adelaide, from which the following is extracted :— “On December 24 and 25 (Merry Christmas Day) I was dying, […]