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 […]
Carrie of the Miner – The Goldfields’ First Lady of Letters
Columnist ‘Carrie of the Miner’ may not have been as widely known as Carrie Bradshaw of a certain TV show, but in Eastern Goldfields, she is by far more important and arguably more impressive. Carrie’s real name was Amy Augusta Buscombe, who was born in Victoria in 1862. She was the first female journalist at […]
Brothers of the Black Jack – The Hendersons of Yunndaga
Some time ago, I was sent these wonderful photographs by Terry and Dawn Leitch of their family’s mine, The Black Jack GM at Yunndaga (Woolgar). It was leased first by Patrick George Henderson (Terry’s great-grandfather) and later by his sons Cyril and Eric Henderson. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this area, the […]
Goldfields Without Chrysanthemums – by Catherine Bond
In the late 1800s and early 1900’s it was popular for travellers to keep a travel diary to record the day-to-day happenings of the places and things they did on their journeys. It does seem to have been more popular with women, and many diaries have gone on to be published. This gives us a […]
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 […]
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