Western Mail 15 June 1939, page 11 When Nights Were Nights and Days Were Days. OVER THE PLATES – Dear Non-com To me, it has always seemed that the saddest of all things sad, is the tragedy of old age, and more particularly is this so when riches more needed in our shadowing eve have […]
The Battle of Wingina Gorge
Daily News 21 October 1955, page 5 Jandamarra aka “Pigeon” led one of the first rebellions of the Australian Aboriginal people armed with firearms in Western Australia. Jandamarra or Sandawarra, known as Pidgeon had been one of the best and most trusted police trackers in the West Kimberley. When Jandamarra’s close friend, an English stockman […]
Old Mulgabbie – over the plates
Western Mail 23 January 1941, page 9 – Dolly Pot Old Mulgabbie About 130 kilometres north-east of Kalgoorlie, along the Kurnalpi-Pinjin Road. In the year of 1898 or thereabouts following closely on the opening of the Kanowna Deep Leads, I struck the track from Norseman to Coolgardie accompanied by a mate. We had light hearts, […]
Goongarrie Cemetery – they paid the price of the golden game
The Goongarrie (AKA Goongarri) area was first prospected, before Hannans was discovered, by Pickersgill, Frost and Cahill in 1893. It was first known as ‘The Roaring Gimlet’ and afterwards, when it was at its most prosperous, The Ninety-Mile. If you have ever driven up to Menzies, I am sure you will have seen the two […]
When East Meets West by N E Gledhill
Another ‘Ripping Yarn’ from the pen of N E Gledhill, kindly shared by his Great Nephew Allen Gledhill with thanks: When East Meets West (By N. E. Gledhill) You wonder how he came to be there; but I’ll tell you. There are brave men in this world who will face anything but themselves. Rio, Danilova, […]
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