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Charlie Webb and the Mountain that Wasn’t

11/04/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE:  The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence. Mr. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an auriferous patch […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Henry Lawson, Western Australia, Yundamindera

Doubly Deserted by Val Jameson

04/01/2025 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Mail 25 December 1905, page 10 Doubly Deserted by Val Jameson Up in the heavens, a westering sun cast oblique rays, still fiercely hot, on the parched bush that stretched its shrivelled growth as far as the eye could see from the prospectors’ camp. Nearby, a windlass under a roof of boughs stood on […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yundamindera

The Doubly Deserted –

24/08/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail 25 December 1905, page 10 The Doubly Deserted by Val Jameson Up in the heavens, a westering sun cast oblique rays, still fiercely hot, on the parched bush that stretched its shrivelled growth as far as the eye could see from the prospectors’ camp. Nearby, a windlass under a roof of boughs stood […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yundamindera

The Old Yundamindera Pub

14/07/2018 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Old Yundamindera Pub With mud walls rough and weathered, The old pub stands four square But there’s now no horses tethered, No miners drinking there The rusted roof is leaking, The bar room walls are bare, A loose door’s eerie creaking, The only sound you hear. Gone are the hardy miners, Who did their […]

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

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