I was recently sent the following family story from Rae Knee, whose great-great-grandfather, Isaac Lloyd, came to the Western Australian Goldfields. In the quiet town of Hertford, England, in 1834, Isaac Lloyd was born to John, a skilled blacksmith, and Emma Baldwin. His early years were marked by a christening in Ruthin, Denbigh, Wales, a […]
Not At Watsons !!! – pub tales
The Sun Newspaper 15th Nov 1903 Mr J R Watson, licensee of the Boorara Hotel, referring to a couple of ‘They Says’ ( like ‘Heard on Hannan’) pars in last weeks paper, writes:- ‘Mine is the only licenced house at Boorara and we see nothing of fighting and gambling and see considerably less of feminine yelling […]