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Lancefield Memories

17/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

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 […]

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Uren Golden Wedding

17/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Southern Cross, Western Australia

The Great Unwashed Preserver of the Peace

10/06/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Goldfields History, police history, Western Australia

Tom Riseley – a man who blazed the track

10/06/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Southern Cross, Western Australia

Dryblower Jack – pioneer profile

10/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

John Carins know as Dryblower Jack John was born in Newcastle on Tyne, in Northumberland, England in 1890 and was educated at Rutherford College in that town. He was said to have come to Australia in 1913, he had a discharge certificate from the British services. As a young man, he worked in various trades […]

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

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