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The Great Beer Strike of 1903 – Victory !!!!

11/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

BEER STRIKE AT MT MORGANS VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS Kalgoorlie Western Argus: 14 July 1903.  –  A correspondent, telegraphing under yesterday’s date from Mt. Morgans, states :A fierce and decisive battle has been fought in this town, the contest lasting exactly 48 hours. The miners, led by Captain Frampton, held a meeting on Friday night […]

Filed Under: Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Beer, Goldfields History, Mt Morgans, Western Australia

Death of a Bushman – a verse

11/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

We have another excellent poem by Ray Jackson – This is what he tells me about it- In 1897 both of my Great Grandfathers on my Mothers side,  brought their families to Kalgoorlie to live. George Nankiville came from Berrima in NSW with his wife Sarah and my Grandmother Myra and her brothers. Andrew Bruce came […]

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

A Faithful Wife, True and Kind-

04/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently sent this photograph of H Cramer and Co, Saddle, Collar and Harness Maker. To find out a bit more about the business I started to search. A sad tale indeed unfolded. In Kalgoorlie in 1901, a young couple married, Margaret Theresa Angus and Henry Timothy Cramer.  Henry was born in 1871 in […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Simply Mavis – by Margaret Hamilton

04/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Book Review: – This book is a biography written by a 90 year old nurse/midwife who was one of a family of eighteen children born on the Murchison Goldfields just after the turn of the century (early 1900’s). From humble beginnings Mavis succeeds in fulfilling her training at Royal Perth Hospital and was to become […]

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

Aviation Pioneers of the Outback of WA part 2

04/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Aviation Pioneers of the Outback of WA  :  PART 2 – By John Pritchard MacRoberston Miller Aviation Co in WA  The origins of this airline were formed by Mr Horrie Miller in Victoria in 1920 whilst conducting general aviation services using a variety of aircraft types. In 1928, he commenced his first airline service between […]

Filed Under: People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Air travel, Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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