Earlier this year I was in correspondence with Julie McKenna and she told me of her wonderful family story which appeared in the Warrnambool Standard newspaper on 13th February 2024. I would like to acknowledge and thank Jenny McLaren, of The Warrnambool Standard, for her kind permission to reproduce the story, and to Julie for […]
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
‘Bold McManaway’ – publican and gentleman
30/03/2024 By Leave a Comment
From Finder of Relics February 16, 2021 JOHN MCMANAWAY OF CUE, BLACK RANGE AND SANDSTONE Author – Vivienne Sinclair. John McManaway was born in Roscommon, Ireland in 1863. He moved to Victoria, Australia and by the age of 21 years had married Mary Glover. They had 6 children and by 1895 the family had moved […]
Kathleen Valley – ghost town
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Kathleen Valley – Western Australia Located in the Leonora District Latitude : 27 31 S Longitude : 120 34 E Kathleen (Kathleen valley) is an abandoned townsite in the East Murchison Goldfield, located about 50 km north of Leinster. Gold was discovered in the area in 1897, and a townsite was gazetted in 1900. Locals […]
The Women of the West –
30/03/2024 By 1 Comment
They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill, The houses in the busy streets where life is never still, The pleasures of the city, and the friends they cherished best: For love they faced the wilderness -the Women of the West. The roar, and rush, and fever of the city died away, […]
The Queen of White Feather –
23/03/2024 By Leave a Comment
The Queen of White Feather A true story of the introduction of the first barmaid in Kanowna in 1896 by John Drayton. Smith’s Weekly Sydney – 2 September 1922, page 24 TOM DOYLE, licensee of the Kanowna Hotel (White Feather) in 1896, introduced the first barmaid to the fields. There were, women in the camp, […]
