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Pannican – grave tales

16/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Police Honour Legendary Aboriginal Tracker. On the 2nd Jul 2008 a memorial was unveiled in Kalgoorlie for one of the state’s most renowned Aboriginal police trackers.  Johnny Grey, also known as Pannican, who was considered one of the best trackers of his time. He worked for the police in the Laverton-Leonora area from 1942 to […]

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

Blue Blood and Bullets:

16/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

In Coolgardie in 1894, there was an influx of British nobility and for a time there were more Lords, Dukes, Baronets and hangers on in Coolgardie than had, or ever has been, in any one Australian town at the same time. Some of them did well. One, with no knowledge of gold-finding, backed a couple […]

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

When Death Creeps In –

16/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

West Australian – Perth WA – 6 January 1934, page 4 WHEN DEATH CREEPS IN A Tale of a Mine. By Ion L. Idriss, author of ‘Flynn of the Inland It is nasty, facing death down below, whether under sea or land. Sam Ure worked doggedly though uneasily, for the ground was creaking, a subterranean […]

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

The Old Terbaccy Tin –

16/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Old Terbaccy Tin – In 1985 Dan Callaghan died and was buried in the Sandstone Cemetery. This poem was dedicated to him and all of the other old times who will forever provide us with inspiration:   I found him lying by the road So I shut the old truck down And made him […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History

Left Waiting at the Church:

09/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

WAITING AT THE CHURCH. PLIGHT OF A PAIR IN PICCADILLY A Brace of Boulderites Kept Waiting at the Matrimonial Starting Barrier— For the Parson who ” Forgot.” 11th April 1909 A NOW HAPPY PAIR (since they are married) who, for the best part of an hour, on Wednesday afternoon last, feared that their chance of […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder

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