In the days before the motor vehicle and on the eve of the arrival of railway travel the horse and the camel ruled the transport business. Jules Samuel Gascard was one businessman who was at the forefront of this booming trade. Cue 1896 – Jules Gascard’s Livery stables are the largest in the colony and […]
Milly Soak – Historic Graves
27/04/2019 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to John Pritchard for the original idea for this story: Milly/Millie Soak is 16 kilometers north of Cue and was a popular picnic spot in Cue’s early history. It also became the source of the town’s water for a number of years following the pollution of the town water supply due to poor sanitary […]
Boney Brims Contract:
20/04/2019 By 5 Comments
Sunday Times : 22 December 1907 OLD “Boney Brim” and his old mate Jolly, walked deliberately into the bar of The Miners’ Arms, at Cue, and each drank a pint of beer. The contract for sinking the main shaft of the Old Warden mine another hundred feet, had just been let, and the two mates […]
Mr Schumann – a man of enterprise!
25/02/2019 By Leave a Comment
Margaret Hartley’s ancestors had a long and varied history in the Murchison district of Western Australia. She has very kindly sent me the following photographs and details of the Schumann family. The Schumann family outside their house at Day Dawn about 1907 GULLEWA GOLDFIELD – The W.A. Record – Saturday 27th February 1897 Gullewa Goldfield […]
Nannine – William James Fisher
12/01/2019 By 2 Comments
The following amazing photograph have been kindly sent to me to share with you. They are from the family album of Ms Robin Panousieris, nee Fisher, and are about her Grandfather, William James Fisher, who was born in Ballarat, so he experienced the gold rush there which may have given him the idea that gold […]
