After the Crushings Over –

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After the Crushing’s Over by W Gregory. Our beers cut down, and our creditors frown, And it’s hard to raise a pot, But we’ve worked down hard on me and my pard, And found troubles quite a lot But they’ll soon be o’er, and we’ll pay our score And find ourselves in clover, Get off […]

An Underworld Figure Convicted in Kalgoorlie –

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Matilda Mary Devine, an infamous Sydney crime figure known as ‘Tilly Devine’, portrayed in the TV series Underbelly, had links to Kalgoorlie Boulder after being arrested and jailed on the Goldfields. Matilda ‘Tilly” Devine, was born in England in 1900 and became a prominent crime syndicate crime figure involved in sly grog dealing and razor […]

A Man with a Famous Mate – William Cutmore

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Back in 1998, I was in correspondence with a lady, Joanne Shumak, who I was assisting to look into the family history of her uncle, William Basham Cutmore, who, if not for a slip of fate, may be a name as familiar to the Goldfields as his famous mate Arthur Bayley. W. B. Cutmore was […]

Mother and Daughter – grave tales

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The below elaborate memorial to a mother and daughter who died not long apart has stood the test of time. As you will see in the second photograph taken 107 years later it remains much the same. It is surprising that often a grave made with the same type of materials will fall into disrepair […]

THE LEGEND OF C.Y. O’CONNOR … and his golden pipeline

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THE LEGEND OF C.Y. O’CONNOR … and his golden pipeline by John Terrell The following was a well-deserved Blue Ribbon winner by John Terrell at the Kununurra Agricultural Society’s annual show in July 2024 in the category of – Poetry and Prose – Yarn (max 900 words) theme ‘Water’. Water was the central issue in […]