‘Playing Hooky’, many of you, myself included, may think this means by definition:- To be absent from school with out permission or excuse. However if you were a drinker in the 1930’s in Kalgoorlie Boulder you probably would remember a quite different game. I first heard of this game when an ‘Outback Family History’ reader, […]
A verse to the Flu: 100yrs ago
Just over 100 years ago we were advised to do similar things to protect our health as we are today. Regional towns in WA were quarantined just as we will be doing next week. Leonora Miner 21 June 1919 Averse to the Flu. (With apologies to Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox). Laugh and the world […]
The Prince and the Diggers Daughter-
Nambucca and Bellinger News 6 May 1932, page 5 A TALE OF THE GOLDFIELDS written by JAMES GRAYSON for the “Nambucca News” When gold is calling, however tortuous the road, civilised men all the world over (and some women, too) will overcome all apparent impossible obstacles, reaching their objective often in the last stage of […]
Margaret Alice Lynch – grave tales
103 yrs ago Margaret Alice Lynch died at age 68 yrs and was buried in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery on the 21st Sept 1917 in grave number 4986. This impressive memorial is in a double plot, but she is buried there alone. She is buried close to her son, William Reilly, […]
The World Well Lost for Love:
The Story of Bob and Jack – Bunbury Herald 5 June 1907, page 3 A PROSPECTOR’S SACRIFICE By R. M. Cochrane Every prospector knows the dreary tracts of the Mount Margaret goldfields of Western Australia, but few are acquainted with the unspeakable dreariness of the tracks beyond, leading to the McDonnell ranges. So far as […]
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