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Navvies, Newlyweds and the Goldfields Dream

27/06/2026 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The Sun. Kalgoorlie 8 December 1901 North Country Notes by Pharisee Since the advent of the navvies with the Malcolm-Leonora railway construction, the Malcolm hash houses have received a severe shaking up. Formerly it was only possible to get a square feed if – like Oliver Twist — a man possessed the grit to ask […]

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

The Crown for the Queen of the Murchison –

27/06/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo0 Goldfields Chronicle – 26 March 1897 Parer’s Crown Hotel, Cue, is one of the most popular resorts for visitors and residents of the town in which to make their home while in the fields. The name of Parer Bros is well known to everyone who has ever been in […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Cue, Goldfields History, Hotels, Western Australia

Coolgardie Cemetery Project –

25/06/2026 By Moya Sharp 6 Comments

COOLGARDIE CEMETERY UPDATE I’d like to share an update on my ongoing project to expand the biographies of those buried in the Coolgardie Cemetery. I recently realised that it is almost exactly a year since I began this enormous undertaking, and I’m pleased to say that I have now completed the biographies for burials from […]

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

The Brewery on the Breakaway: Sandstone’s Beer-Making Marvel

20/06/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Black Range Brewery, or the Breakaway Brewery as it was also known, began trading in August of 1907 with the proprietor as Joseph Vincent Kearney, an Irishman born in 1873 at Ballymoon, Co Carlow, Ireland. The manager was Michael ‘Mick’ Dempsey. It was located on the Maninga Marley Road, 4.8 kilometres from Sandstone. What […]

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

The Waitress, the Barman, and the Wife

20/06/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

New Call and Bailey’s Weekly 25 July 1935 WHAT WIFE SAW THROUGH A CUE WINDOW Lively Ructions In Girl’s Room Chief Justice Grants Decree Nisi That a wife through a Cue window saw her husband in bed with another woman was alleged when before the Chief Justice (Sir John Northmore) this week Edith Bowes sought […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cue, Day Dawn, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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