The Old Terbaccy Tin – In 1985 Dan Callaghan died and was buried in the Sandstone Cemetery. This poem was dedicated to him and all of the other old times who will forever provide us with inspiration: I found him lying by the road So I shut the old truck down And made him […]
Left Waiting at the Church:
WAITING AT THE CHURCH. PLIGHT OF A PAIR IN PICCADILLY A Brace of Boulderites Kept Waiting at the Matrimonial Starting Barrier— For the Parson who ” Forgot.” 11th April 1909 A NOW HAPPY PAIR (since they are married) who, for the best part of an hour, on Wednesday afternoon last, feared that their chance of […]
Burt Street – by Vic Dale
Burt Street Boulder Oh the years have long strayed, where my younger days played The dust on a long summer breeze Our old house where we stayed, mother cried when she prayed The dust storms that came as they pleased The Old Trams of Burt Street, in an old world compete With steam on the […]
Abbotts Cemetery – Yoothapina Station
Abbotts Cemetery (Yoothapina Station) Formerly know as Abbotts Find Reserve 6980 and 22406 AZIZ Abdul — 43yrs, d 29 Apr 1900, at Abbotts GM employed by the Yagahong Co, Bitten by a camel on 20th April which broke his leg, He died on the 29th April from shock after and operation to amputate his leg, […]
MUDGEDEEN – Cameleer and Grocer
The following photographs from the family album of Carole Hampton were sent to me recently. Mudgedeen was her husbands Grandfather. Her husband is the son of Mudgedeen and Clara’s daughter Violet, from her second marriage. Mudgedeen, (AKA Charles), was born in 1873 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, the son of M BARRADEEN. He married Clara Ellen […]