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Mother and Daughter – grave tales

17/08/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The below elaborate memorial to a mother and daughter who died not long apart has stood the test of time. As you will see in the second photograph taken 107 years later it remains much the same. It is surprising that often a grave made with the same type of materials will fall into disrepair […]

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

THE LEGEND OF C.Y. O’CONNOR … and his golden pipeline

17/08/2024 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

THE LEGEND OF C.Y. O’CONNOR … and his golden pipeline by John Terrell The following was a well-deserved Blue Ribbon winner by John Terrell at the Kununurra Agricultural Society’s annual show in July 2024 in the category of – Poetry and Prose – Yarn (max 900 words) theme ‘Water’. Water was the central issue in […]

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

Michael Tobin – a grave in the wilderness

10/08/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

  Michael TOBIN died on the 7th of April 1907 aged 33 years at Wadda Waddah Well or No 40 Well on the newly proposed stock route from the Kimberly called the Canning Stock Route. He was buried on a sandy ridge 250 metres from well No 40. His burial was confirmed by A G […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Halls Creek, Kimberley, Western Australia, Wiluna

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

A Trip Through Kunanalling to Bonnie Vale –

10/08/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Sun 28 June 1903, page 3 A TRIP FROM KUNANALLING TO BONNIE VALE by Cobb. Coming over from Siberia I, put up a night at Kunanalling, and had an opportunity to study the town and its inhabitants. Two or three dismal lights illuminated the principal thoroughfare, a rather lengthy street dotted with a store, […]

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Filed Under: People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Bonnie Vale, Goldfields History, Kunanalling, Western Australia

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