Young men “turned to stone”. George Boyland George Boyland was born in Garden Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, on the 8th March 1872. The son of a miner, he and his brother and sister moved with their parents from Victoria to Queensland, and then around 1894 to Western Australia. He seems to have travelled back and forth […]
Book Review – Pipe Dream to Pipeline
Pipe-Dream to Pipeline, The Eventful Life of Nathaniel W Harper by Stan Gervas Many of you will know of the story of the water pipeline which came to the Goldfields bringing fresh water and permanent prosperity and the roll played in the scheme by C Y O’Connor. Many of you will not however know of […]
The Kalgoorlie Hotel – Judds pub
Kalgoorlie Hotel ‘Judds Pub’. Hannan Street Kalgoorlie This photo is not one often seen of this well know local iconic building. Built c 1896 from ‘white stone’ it has remained a going concern ever since. It hasn’t always been called ‘Judds’ it was named as such from James (Judd) Mahony who gave his nick […]
Found Dead – a verse
The suns fierce beams are striking From out the cloudless sky, And a weary man is toiling On the sand plain drear and dry. His tongue is swollen and blackening And his eyes are dimmed and blurred How he longs for the sight of timber; Fringing some streamlet clear! He shades his throbbing eyeballs With […]
The Graves of Horseman’s Gully – grave tales
WARNING:- Graphic content of grave remains that may upset some people. In 1995 Forsyth-Plutonic Gold Mining held the mining lease of an area that included burials at Horseman’s Gully near Darlot in the Murchison. Under mining law, it is prohibited to mine within 100 yards of a know burial site. This posed a problem for […]
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