The Knickerbocker Hero – The Little Lennonville Hero, were some of the words used to describe Vincent Atkinson, a young boy of just ten years of age, who was to inspire West Australians with his presence of mind and his ‘heart of a lion’ after he brought his younger brothers and sister to safety following […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
Outback Joe – a verse
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The Sun, Sunday 11 June 1899, page 5 OUTBACK JOE A LEGEND OF THE 25-MILE. You miners of Westralia! attention grant, I pray, While I relate in doggerel, a plaintive sort of lay, Wherein a sharper kind of bloke— a half Finn-German Jew — Was introduced to Out-back Joe and shown a point or two. […]
Oh God! put back the hands of time and give me yesterday:
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The Goldfields Pioneers Reuniuon, Perth Town Hall, 23rd December 1929 The Truth – Sunday 29 December 1929, page 1 THE TRAIL OF THE GOLDEN PAST GENTLEMEN ! To the memory of our comrades who have crossed the Great Divide! It was a striking and pathetic toast, as pathetic was the response Two hundred grizzled warriors of the West Australian […]
The Oldest Bike Store in Australia –
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Kalgoorlie Miner, Tuesday 24 December 1901, page 6 ARMSTRONG’S CYCLE AGENCY. The growth of the business of Armstrong’s Cycle Agency ever since its inception has been astonishing, and it would probably be a very difficult matter to find a parallel case. The firm, which is the oldest in this line of business on the goldfields, […]
Beatrice Hemingway -grave tales
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‘Died on Christmas Eve’ : 96yrs ago !!! Beatrice HOWARTH was married to Alfred William ‘Fred’ HEMINGWAY in Coolgardie in 1920. Only three years later she was to die in Southern Cross on Christmas Eve, 24th December 1923. Her husband was acting Station Master at Southern Cross at the time. She was expecting her […]
