Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
Im sure that you will agree that we owe a great debt to the early photographers that captured life on the Goldfields that no written version of events could possibly portray. Not only the family photographs of the people but a record of important … [Continue reading]
Western Mail 8 July 1937, page 11 The Dolly Pot - Over the Plates. "Doing Time." In Tuckanarra, a mining town about 25 miles north of Cue, there resided in the late 1800s a man named Mick --. , He was an excellent judge of a horse, a … [Continue reading]
George Augustus Jessop was born on 2 April 1872 in Kilmore, Victoria. He was the son of George Jessop (1847-1898) and Mary nee Deane (1844-1876). he was the middle child of three born to the couple with an older brother Thomas James and a younger … [Continue reading]
No more bets big Nick cried, as the pennies went up, And they spun round and round in the air Tails he called when they came down to rest, For the spinner it was sheer despair. He tossed the kip down on the ground in the ring; that was a quick … [Continue reading]
The Sun Kalgoorlie 22 September 1907, page 6 THE ROARING NINETIES A BULLA BULLING ROMANCE SAILOR BILL'S ELOPEMENT (By Spinifex). Many of the boys of the old brigade have disappeared. They were a roving lot, and when the share … [Continue reading]
