Run to Earth at Barambie: The Arrest of Florence Menon, 1906 Among the many stories that emerged from the remote settlements of the Western Australian Goldfields, few capture the character of the era quite like that of Florence Menon. In the days when sly grog shanties dotted the bush and the police waged a constant […]
Nunngarra Cemetery – Out on the wastes of the Never Never
Nunngarra Cemetery – Black Range (Ivy Linden) Reserve 9270 – 28°04’45.1″S – 119°14’38.0″E 43 Known Burials – In the Shire of Sandstone, approximately 12 km from the Sandstone townsite. On an active Mining lease, the Cemetery is hard to find, and the graves are overgrown in the bush. ‘From Oct 1903 to Feb 1908’ Out […]
A Dearly Beloved Wife – Edith Rosman
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who sees beauty in some memorials in cemeteries. I have spent a great deal of my life wandering around cemeteries, especially our Kalgoorlie Cemetery. The view from the road is often as much as is seen, but if you venture through the gates, you will discover so […]
Gullewa Goldfield: A Fleeting Boom in the Western Australian Outback
GULLEWA GOLDFIELDS The W.A. Record 27th February 1897 The Gullewa Goldfield is situated N.E. from Mingenew, 80 miles, and east of Wurarga on the Mullewa-Cue line, which is the nearest railway station, about 18 miles, and is only one day’s journey by rail from the Port of Geraldton. This new field is still in its […]
Tampa’s Forgotten Cemetery: A Single Soul at Rest
TAMPA BURIALS 29°13.41’S – 121°50.07’E – Cemetery Reserve: 4096 TAMPA – AKA Dingo Creek Tampa is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 805 km east northeast of Perth and about 55 km south of Leonora. Gold was discovered in the Tampa area in the late 1890s, and by 1896, there was enough demand for land for […]
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