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Snatched from the Jaws of Death

18/12/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Lost in the Bush Five Days Without Food or Water Miss Janeczek’s Awful Experience! Southern Cross seems determined to make a name for itself. Beside those persons interested in the mines in the place, nobody scarcely knew of this town, in the barren desert of West Australia. Then it was heard of as a starting […]

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The Mining Expert –

18/12/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

In the first days of the Coolgardie field, any man game enough to sign himself M.E. (Mining Expert) could put his story over.  So-called ‘Mining Experts’ were characteristic of the Coolgardie field especially from 1893 to 1896. Most were self-styled ‘Captains of Industry’ and had most of the letters of the alphabet after their names. […]

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

Woodarra – now your but a memory blurred !

06/12/2021 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The town of Woodarra was surveyed and gazetted on January 14, 1898. It was also known as Darlot, Lake Darlot, or Ballangarry, all names were used at different times. It was located between Laverton and Leinster. Woodarra is the name given by the local Aboriginals to a line of Granite rocks from which a supply […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Ballangarry, Darlot, Goldfields History, Lake Darlot, Western Australia, Woodarra

The Marvellous Corricks

04/12/2021 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

What happened to Dan Heitmann?

04/12/2021 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Way back in 1988 I was contacted by a lady called Elsie Heitmann (yes I still have my correspondence from then). She was trying to find out what happened to one of her relatives who went missing in Western Australia from South Australia. All she had to go on was the following photo which was […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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