Old Mulgabbie – over the plates

Western Mail 23 January 1941, page 9 - Dolly Pot Old Mulgabbie About 130 kilometres north-east of Kalgoorlie, along the Kurnalpi-Pinjin Road. In the year of 1898 or thereabouts following closely on the opening of the Kanowna Deep … [Continue reading]

Goongarrie Cemetery – they paid the price of the golden game

The Goongarrie (AKA Goongarri) area was first prospected, before Hannans was discovered, by Pickersgill, Frost and Cahill in 1893.  It was first known as 'The Roaring Gimlet' and afterwards, when it was at its most prosperous, The Ninety-Mile. If … [Continue reading]

When East Meets West by N E Gledhill

Another 'Ripping Yarn' from the pen of N E Gledhill, kindly shared by his Great Nephew Allen Gledhill with thanks: When East Meets West (By N.  E.  Gledhill) You wonder how he came to be there; but I'll tell you. There are brave men in this world … [Continue reading]

Blanche Habgood – a station grave

A Story sent to me by Jennifer Sherwood as told to her by Lorraine Rieck, published with Lorraine's kind permission. It is about Blanche Habgood who died in the Peak Hill district of the Murchison of Western Australia. The reason for this story is … [Continue reading]

The Painting in the Pub –

West Australian 12 July 1952, page 14 A Curtain Raiser for the Golden Nineties by Freda Vines One of our truly indigenous works of art, "Bayley's Luck" painted by Gerald Walsh in 1899, hangs in the carefree atmosphere of a … [Continue reading]