Water was the great leveller. Everyone needed it, young or old, rich or poor. Many a venture has failed through lack of water, and many a life has ended through lack of, or too much of it. In the early gold rush days, it was often safer to drink whiskey than water that could be […]
One Crowded Night of Life – by John Drayton
22/03/2025 By 4 Comments
That day Mount Margaret was as quiet as a cemetery on a Sunday morning in Melbourne. Andy Flannagan, the ‘Learned Bushman’ and his mates, had reported a strike of alluvial gold 18 miles east, and all the prospectors not on good shows, and had pulled out for the new find, from which Flannagan’s party had […]
What is a t’othersider ???
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T’othersiders People from the eastern colonies were referred to as t’othersiders, an instance of the isolation felt by many in Australia’s ‘Western Third’. It was the influx of ‘t’othersiders’ to the Goldfields however which helped Western Australia to catch up in population and improve its financial status. Some of these people would remain to swell […]
Rothsay Cemetery – nature took what nature gave
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Rothsay Cemetery – Perenjori Shire off Boonerong Road, Rothsay, Western Australia Coordinates – 29.29060, 116.88470 Reserve 6295 Rothsay is an abandoned town in the Mid-West region of Western Australia. It is situated between the towns of Dalwallinu and Mount Magnet and 78 kms from Paynes Find. A prospector named George Woodley discovered gold in the area in 1894 and initially […]
Arthur Stubbs – Pioneer timber merchant
15/03/2025 By Leave a Comment
Arthur Stubbs. J.P. and Timber merchant Boulder: was born at Balmoral in Victoria on January 9th 1873. And is the son of the late William Alwyn Stubbs, one of the pioneer teachers in the Victorian Education Department. He was one of the twenty-three children from his father’s two marriages. His mother was Agnes AITKEN (second […]
