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A Notable Career on the Goldfields: The Life of Robert James Crawford

31/01/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following story from the family of Gavin Crawford is shared with his kind permission: All images supplied by Gavin unless otherwise stated. The Baker’s Beginning In the spring of 1875, the town of Carisbrook near Maryborough, Victoria, witnessed one of its most memorable wedding celebrations. Twenty-year-old Robert James Crawford, son of an ironmonger, married […]

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Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Carbine, Kintore, Western Australia

A House with a History –

10/08/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Daily News 28 October 1933, page 4 HOUSE WITH A HISTORY – Never Inhabited QUAINT RELIC OF BOOM DAYS (By J. D. Costello) Perched alone on the lip of a breakaway near the deserted townsite of Kintore on the road from Coolgardie to Carbine, is the skeleton of an imposing stone house. A landmark for […]

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