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Prospector Who Dug His Own Grave:

07/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times –  22 September 1940, page 10 Prospector Who Dug His Own Grave The story of Franz Horneg (AKA Franz ERDMAN), a German and Anthon Johansen, called ‘The Swede’ (but was Norwegian), is a true story, yet if it had occurred to a fiction writer, the author would have probably rejected it as too […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kimberley, murder, Western Australia

Uriah Dudley, Mining Engineer and Mason

07/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

BROTHER URIAH DUDLEY, MINING ENGINEER AND FREEMASON by Geoff Randall Shortly after Uriah Dudley was born in 1852 in Bedfordshire, England, his parents migrated to Australia. They were part of the mass immigration of Victoria’s Gold Rush era and settled first of all in Geelong. During the Gympie Gold Boom in Queensland the family moved […]

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

Thousands of Miles Through the Outback:

07/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times – Perth – Sunday 23 August 1936, page 20 Drove Coach For Cobb & Co. MR. Frederick Albert Crews LOOKS BACK ON PIONEERING DAYS Thousands of Miles Through the Outback By Coach A link with coaching days of sixty years ago is provided j by Mr. Frederick A. Crews, of Outram street, West […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cobb and Co, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Snatched from the jaws of death:

31/10/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Lost in the Bush Five Days Without Food or Water Miss Janeczek’s Awful Experience! Southern Cross seems determined to make a name for itself. Beside those persons interested in the mines in the place, nobody scarcely knew of this town, in the barren desert of West Australia. Then it was heard of as a starting-place […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Lost, Southern Cross, Western Australia

Living in caves:

31/10/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Daily News – Tuesday 15 July 1947, page 15 KALGOORLIE —  Drawn back to the goldfields to spend their last days, are two 78 year old pensioners. They are Messrs. A. J. Girdlestone and James O’Connell. They live in caves on the out skirts of Kalgoorlie. The cramped cave homes are in an old open […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

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