The following is a guest post from the Family History of Marcia McIntyre Bert and Cyril Longmore were first cousins to my mother, Alice Mary Jones nee True. Although the Longmore family left Gundagai when Bert was only a small child and moved to Melbourne, then Western Australia, the family always kept in contact with […]
“The Challenge’ for the ‘Belle of Coolgardie’
09/11/2019 By Leave a Comment
In the days of early Coolgardie it was often the case that when a disagreement occurred it was settled in the time honored way by bashing each other senseless. This was welcomed by the general population who were somewhat starved for entertainment. It also ensured your ‘disagreement’ was well and truly ‘settled’. Coolgardie drew to […]
Madame Eugene Vauthier – pioneer profile
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CENTENARIAN DIES – Nurse in Franco-Prussian War – Thur 26th Dec 1935 Kalgoorlie Miner This photograph was taken a fortnight before Eugenie Vauthier broke her leg and entered hospital. It shows her with Jack Frost, an old prospector who regarded her as his mother and took care of her. The dog is Marshall, a great pal […]
The Desert Secrets – by Jules Raeside
06/11/2019 By Leave a Comment
There’s a shaker up the gully, There’s a paddock partly stripped, And a shovel pick and dishes lying round And a little heap of tailings Lying underneath the sieves And a heap of hoppers stones upon the ground. But the hand that shook the shaker Never more will raise a ‘run’, O’er the ripples of […]
Oh! Who could paint a Goldfields – Henry Lawson
01/11/2019 By Leave a Comment
Oh! Who could paint a Goldfields and paint the picture right? As old adventures saw it in early morning light. The yellow mounds of mullock with spots of red and white The scattered quartz that glistens like diamonds in the light Hear the fall of timber from distant flats and fells The pealing of the […]
