Oldest Bike Store in Australia

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 … [Continue reading]

Fanny Hannah Hunt – pioneer profile

GOLD- that commodity was so powerful, but as a child, I played with it as a toy. It was a glass phial of specks and small nuggets in liquid and tightly corked. I remember shaking it and watching the dull yellow stuff glint in the light. I must have … [Continue reading]

Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 3 October 2021

Hi Everyone, and a big welcome to all of our 49 new readers. We hope that you will stick with us and that you enjoy the stories to come as much as I enjoy finding them. At this time there are over 1300 stories on the blog so I am sure if you take the … [Continue reading]

The Matron and the Major – nurse Annie Jones

In early 1896 Annie Jones from Bendigo, Victoria, was nursing in the Government hospital at Cue, Western Australia.  While she was recovering from a mild form of typhoid fever, word came by camel train that Mr. Magnus Maxton Calder, a member of the … [Continue reading]

Suicide, Cyanide and Scones –

Murchison Advocate 27 February 1904, page 3 Suicide and Attempted Murder. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR At Boulder this morning, Alexander Solomon, aged 40yrs, a notorious character and well known to the police, was arrested on … [Continue reading]