Article contributed by – By Outback Family History reader Jenni Hodge There are few better ways to get a feel for the people of the past than by eating their diets. The experience of tasting something which our ancestors tasted connects us with them through a sensory experience which cannot be equaled in the realm of academic learning. […]
Violence, Murder, and Dispossession – The Human Cost of the Australian Gold Rush
Contributor of the week – Violence, Murder, and Dispossession – The Human Cost of the Australian Gold Rush – By Outback Family History reader Jenni Hodge Rushing for gold makes a few individual fortunes, and breaks the hearts and lives of many more. While it is undoubtedly true that, on a larger level, the Australian […]
The Tea and Sugar Train
This is a fascinating short film on the ‘Tea And Sugar Train’ made by the Commonwealth Film Unit 1954. Once a week the Tea and Sugar Train leaves Port Augusta and heads west along the Nullarbor with all the supplies needed by the track maintenance workers and their families that live along the route. Everything […]
Isaac Goss – A Christian Man in Every Sense
Issac William Goss – Undertaker This is one of my favourite photographs. It is of the Goss family taken at their home in Piesse Street, Boulder in 1910. The family was well known for their undertaker’s business in Piesse Street, Boulder. Many of the headstones in our local cemeteries have their maker’s name on them. […]
Kunanalling – Ghost Town
Kunanalling – Ghost Town Latitude 30 141’ S Longitude 121 04’ E Now an abandoned townsite, Kunanalling is located in what is now the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia 25 “miles (32 km) from Coolgardie on the road that traverses the western side of Mt Burges. Gold was discovered here in 1892, and it […]