Western Mail Perth – 16 September 1926, page 19 THE SEEKER – THE LATE BILLY FROST Prospector and Explorer By John Meiklejohn. Round the campfires of the various diggings during the 1890s, no name was more prominent than that of the late Billy Frost. He never had the fortune to make any sensational gold discovery, […]
Barrambie put the ‘Wild’ in the Wild West
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Barrambie, is located 116 km southeast of Meekatharra and 75 km northwest of Sandstone. Of all the small satellite towns surrounding Sandstone, Barrambie was the one that has had, right up to the present time, the most constant stream of prospectors and miners working the shows in that vicinity. In June of 1905, there was […]
John Bain – grave tales
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John Bain was born in Wick, Scotland on 18 Mar 1866 to John Bain and Margaret Miller. He came to Western Australia in 1894. He married Betsy Calder Miller in Fremantle WA in 1900. John was to go into partnership with Betsy’s brothers, Donald George and Ben Miller, when they founded the Marvellous West GM. […]
Widgiemooltha Cemetery – Forget us not, for eternity here we reside
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Widgemooltha Cemetery Off Coolgardie Esperance Highway Long -31.478272 Lat 121.583090 ‘We loved and were loved before we died, Forget us not for eternity here we reside.’ 16 Burials – 1 Mine Death – 8 children – 1 female – 1 suicide. BROWN Raymond Jeffrey – d 25 May 1935, 32yrs, Born: Melbourne VIC, In WA […]
The Niagara Football Club – a verse
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Kookynie Advocate and Northern Goldfields News 31 October 1903, page 2 The Niagara Football Club. (With apologies to “Banjo” Patterson.) On Saturday 17th October 1903, after Niagara became football premiers, there was a grand wind-up at the Niagara Hotel where over fifty people sat down to a great feast. To mark this event the following […]
