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Milly Soak – an oasis in the desert

18/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Thanks to John Pritchard for the original idea for this story: Milly/Millie Soak is 16 kilometers north of Cue and was a popular picnic spot in Cue’s early history. It also became the source of the town’s water for a number of years following the pollution of the town’s water supply due to poor sanitary […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cue, Goldfields History, Milly Soak, Western Australia

Jules Gascard – pioneer profile

18/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

In the days before the motor vehicle and on the eve of the arrival of railway travel the horse and the camel ruled the transport business. Jules Samuel Gascard was one businessman who was at the forefront of this booming trade. Cue 1896  –  Jules Gascard’s Livery stables are the largest in the colony and […]

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

A History of Lodge Golden Thistle –

18/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

A HISTORY OF LODGE GOLDEN THISTLE No. 840 S.C. First Scottish Lodge erected on the Eastern Goldfields of WA By Bro. Doug Daws PDGM, Hon, SGW (Scot.) – August 2021 Although Coolgardie is now known to most West Australians as a tourist town and refueling stop on the road to the Eastern States, in the […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Masonic, Western Australia

A Swearful Dryblower – a verse

11/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I am a digger at Mulgabbie and I’d like to rise and say Dryblowing is a swearful game to most diggers anyway. You work for days without a color, then have a lengthy swear that takes two solid windy days to cleanse the atmosphere. If an angel down from heaven had to dryblow for a […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History

The Sun – Not a Detective Agency

11/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Sun Newspaper was circulated in the Goldfields from 1898 to 1929 when the name was changed to The Goldfields Observer, which continued until 1939. Printed and published by Frank Walker for Kalgoorlie Newspapers, Ltd at their office, 51 Forrest Street, Kalgoorlie next to the Railway Hotel. The Sunday Times and “The Sun” newspapers of Western […]

Filed Under: Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Newspapers, Western Australia

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