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Wheels of Fortune: The Rise of Armstrong’s Cycle Agency in Western Australia

18/04/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Miner, Tuesday 24 December 1901, page 6 ARMSTRONG’S CYCLE AGENCY. The growth of the business of Armstrong’s Cycle Agency ever since its inception has been astonishing,  and it would probably be a very difficult matter to find a parallel case. The firm, which is the oldest in this line of business on the goldfields, […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, They were 1st Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Cycle, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Struck Down in His Prime: The Death of Constable Edward Tindall

18/04/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Death from Typhoid Fever was common around the turn of the 19th century. Many of the victims were fit young men who could succumb to the disease and perish very quickly, as this story of a young Police Constable, who had been on the Goldfields less than 6 months, will tell. The following is an […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, police history, Western Australia

The Roll-Up at Lindsey’s Store: Gold, Betrayal, and Bush Justice.

11/04/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Truth Perth – 14 April 1906, page 4 ROLL UP AT KURNALPI by the EMINENT EXPLORER As I entered the precincts of the camp at Kurnalpi the dishes were rattling with a venomous din that would have caused a new chum to look around with a view to keeping clear of where the bees […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kurnalpi, police history, Western Australia

Charlie Webb and the Mountain that Wasn’t

11/04/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE:  The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence. Mr. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an auriferous patch […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Henry Lawson, Western Australia, Yundamindera

Life in the Australian Backblocks by E S Sorenson

11/04/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Life in the Australian Backblocks by Edward S Sorenson THE STOCKMAN “‘Twas merry ‘mid the blackwoods when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard, With a running fire of stockwhips, and a fiery run of hoofs— Oh! the hardest day was never then too hard.” by Adam Lindsay […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Stockmen, Western Australia

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