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The Old Prospector – a verse

25/04/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Coolgardie Miner 16 June 1938, page 8 The Old Prospector: He fossicks around from year to year Away in the country’s outback, A little bit there, a little bit here With a sample or two in his pack. Away from the tracks of his fellows, The places that other men know, To the land of […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Western Australia

The Box Soak Creek Rush:

25/04/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Where is Box Creek you may ask? As I did myself back in 2000, (I can’t believe it was so long ago), when I received a letter from a lady in Queensland about a distant relative of hers called Ronald Donald McMillen who was supposed to be buried in the Box Soak Cemetery. I had […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Box Soak, Cemeteries, Granites, Western Australia, Yundmaindera

The Bulletin Hotel – by Henry Lawson

18/04/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand Which, I’m told is very tony – and its front looks very grand And somehow fell a-thinking of a pub I know so well Of a place in West Australia called The Bulletin Hotel Just a little six-room shanty built of corrugated tin […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner

Herbert Ernest Wright – a family story

18/04/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

1872– 1945 Guest Post by:-  Katherine Statton Herbert Ernest Wright was the ninth child of Thomas Wright and Sarah Hayes Hutchinson.  He was born at Green Ponds in Tasmania on 21 April 1872.  His father was a teacher at the Green Ponds State School. Green Ponds was first settled in the 1820s.  It is a hilly […]

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

The Departed Miner at Old Kanowna

18/04/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Coolgardie Pioneer – 18 Dec 1897 Pg 16 The claims were pegged out at midnight, and one or two men commenced work right away “THE DEPARTED MINER” “What’s you game, Bill?? Yer jumped me bally claim out at the Flag last winter, ran away with my wife just after, and now when I throw […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Western Australia

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