We often think that family law matters didn’t go to court in the early days, but this unusual story shows that matters could still be most complicated and acrimonious: Leonora Miner 6 August 1927, page 3 Wife of 39yrs Sues Husband of 82yrs A woman of 39 years, sad-eyed and patient, and a man said […]
Darlot Remembers 100 years –
03/10/2020 By Leave a Comment
Former residents of the abandoned townsite of Darlot, 130kms north of Leonora, returned to celebrates the towns centenary in December of 1994. Darlot gold mine manager, David Hatch, said that the earliest known Darlot Mining tenement was registered on December 3 1894. This is the date to mark the towns centenary. Plutonic Resources, which runs […]
Arthur Cranbrook Ashwin – prospector and pastoralist
23/05/2020 By Leave a Comment
The following biography and photographs have been kindly supplied by Jeffrey Oates, whose wife is the great-granddaughter of Arthur Cranbrook Ashwin, a prospector/pastoralist of note in the Lake Darlot area in the late 1800’s until his death in 1930. This is his story- Arthur Cranbrook Ashwin was born on 12 November 1850 in Adelaide, South […]
Brandon’s Fate – a tale of Darlot
26/10/2019 By Leave a Comment
Sun Kalgoorlie Sunday 16 March 1902 Brandon’s fate- A TALE OF DARLOT By Pharisee. The eager, excited crowd which thronged the long dry stage to the Darlot diggings in the first blush of the new discovery, included Dick Brandon and his mate, Jimmy Spiggot. That dreary and water-less track skirting the edge of desolate […]
The Graves of Horseman’s Gully – grave tales
27/09/2019 By Leave a Comment
WARNING:- Graphic content of grave remains that may upset some people. In 1995 Forsyth-Plutonic Gold Mining held the mining lease of an area that included burials at Horseman’s Gully near Darlot in the Murchison. Under mining law, it is prohibited to mine within 100 yards of a know burial site. This posed a problem for […]
