‘Orse Thieves

In 1958 when I was about 7 or 8 years old my father, my older brother and I went to Burracoppin to buy some stores for the farm which was situated at Booraan approximately 14 miles distance. Somehow (as was my dad’s want) we ended up “having a drink” with a...

An anecdote from 1936

Ron Adams found an article in the West Australian written way back in 1936. It’s an anecdote written by Elsie M. Lloyd Annois of Claremont, Western Australia. It tells the story of how Mary Glass discovered the first gold in the Eastern District at the bottom of...