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The Ghosts of Bayley Street – a verse

14/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Almost a 1000 men under the age of 26 lie buried in the Coolgardie Cemetery. The Ghosts of Bayley Street Last night the occult was in power And as the clocks struck midnight hour With saddened eyes and soundless feet, A thousand ghosts walked Bayley Street Ghosts of men who, joys denying Paved the way, […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Kunanalling Graves:

07/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

KUNANALLING — The town grew up on the goldfields, located 32 kilometres north west of Coolgardie. It was gazetted in June 1893 just a few months before Kalgoorlie. Originally known as 25 Mile, the name was changed later to Kunanalling which in the Aboriginal dialect of the area means place of the eagle hawk. The […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kunanalling, Western Australia

Prospector Who Dug His Own Grave:

07/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times –  22 September 1940, page 10 Prospector Who Dug His Own Grave The story of Franz Horneg (AKA Franz ERDMAN), a German and Anthon Johansen, called ‘The Swede’ (but was Norwegian), is a true story, yet if it had occurred to a fiction writer, the author would have probably rejected it as too […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kimberley, murder, Western Australia

Uriah Dudley, Mining Engineer and Mason

07/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

BROTHER URIAH DUDLEY, MINING ENGINEER AND FREEMASON by Geoff Randall Shortly after Uriah Dudley was born in 1852 in Bedfordshire, England, his parents migrated to Australia. They were part of the mass immigration of Victoria’s Gold Rush era and settled first of all in Geelong. During the Gympie Gold Boom in Queensland the family moved […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Thousands of Miles Through the Outback:

07/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times – Perth – Sunday 23 August 1936, page 20 Drove Coach For Cobb & Co. MR. Frederick Albert Crews LOOKS BACK ON PIONEERING DAYS Thousands of Miles Through the Outback By Coach A link with coaching days of sixty years ago is provided j by Mr. Frederick A. Crews, of Outram street, West […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cobb and Co, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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