Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift: a journal of bush history Russian Jack and Synchronicity – by Diane Oldman I rather thought I had made up the word ‘synchronicity’ and when I attempted to look it up in several dictionaries I couldn’t find it. So I decided it was a new noun – my noun. Then […]
The Wood Trains of the17 Mile Camp
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The wood trains of the 17 Mile Camp and Gindalbie Wood for the gold mines by Rod Milne The WAGR terminus at Kanowna dealt with a large tonnage of firewood traffic from the wood line, and these trucks are depicted standing in the middle roads between the station and overline goods shed. The WAGR allowed […]
Mrs Walshaw of Comet Vale:
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Mrs Walshaw of Comet Vale Story and photos by Bernie Morris First Published in ‘The Westland’ 2005 For a few months in the year 1895, the terminus of the new railway thrusting east from Southern Cross to the twin Eldorado’s of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie stood at Boorabbin with strings of half-piled wagons, sullen afghans cruising […]
Thousands of Miles Through the Outback:
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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 […]
Snatched from the jaws of death:
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Lost in the Bush Five Days Without Food or Water Miss Janeczek’s Awful Experience! Southern Cross seems determined to make a name for itself. Beside those persons interested in the mines in the place, nobody scarcely knew of this town, in the barren desert of West Australia. Then it was heard of as a starting-place […]
