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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-05-2024, 03:34 PM
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From Waverly Cemetary, Eastern Sydney - The grave of Henry Lawson, one of Australia's most loved poets.
Henry Lawson (1867 - 1922) was born Henry Archibald at Grenfell, NSW to an immigrant gold prospector Niels Hertzberg (Peter) Larsen and Louisa Nee Albury. He was the eldest sibling of four and an unhappy child due in part to deafness that resulted from illness. Henry's interrupted schooling led to his leaving education early. His parents' marriage ended in 1883 and he and his siblings moved to Sydney with their mother where Henry attended night school, while working as an apprentice stagecoach painter.
Within a few years his first poems were published. His work appeared in The Bulletin and the Australian Town and Country Journal. His first published poem was "A Song of the Republic, 1 October 1887).
By 1890 Lawson had achieved some reputation as a writer of verse, for poems such as "Faces in the Street", "Andy's Gone with Cattle" and "The Watch on the Kerb", which were soon followed by some of his most notable works including "The Drover's Wife" and "While the Billy Boils".
Lawson was something of a legendary figure in his lifetime with most of his best work being achieved by the time he was 35. The next stage of his life was characterised by depression and alcoholism. Lawson spent time in Darlinghurst Gaol for repeated public drunkenness and failure to pay child support.
In 1904, Lawson was befriended by Mrs Byers, a fellow poet, who provided him with food and shelter for the rest of his life. Deeply depressed and perpetually poor, Lawson continued to write. In 1908, he recorded his time in gaol in the poem "One Hundred and Three", his prison number.
Lawson was buried in a state funeral on 4 September 1922, with many dignataries and a large crowd of mourners in attendance. Prime Minister Billy Hughes who attended the funeral acknowledged Henry Lawson as "the minstrel of the people."
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-29-2020, 03:53 PM
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I am enjoying the new format - thank you for taking the time on these tributes.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-20-2017, 02:05 AM
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The grave of Annie Dorrington, Artist and Australian Flag designer. In 1901 the year of Australian Federation, Annie shared first prize with four others in a world wide competition to create a winning design of the Australian National Flag.
Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-04-2016, 11:17 PM
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Found this headstone at Mourambine cemetery in Western Australia.
So an alternative storyline in the upcoming series: So the real John Snow died as a young child and the one in GoT is an imposter so doesn't matter any more. ;-)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-30-2016, 08:34 PM
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Hi Clickers... #760 has that memorial
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-30-2016, 12:24 AM
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Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia
Joseph Bolitho “Moondyne Joe” Johns (c1827-1900) Escapologist
Joseph Johns’ criminal career began in 1849 when he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Wales for stealing food. Four years later, he headed for Fremantle Western Australia on the convict transport Pyrenees as a ticket of leave prisoner.
After a few years Johns went to Moondyne Springs near Toodyay (east of Perth) where he rounded up straying horses for a fee. Arrested for stealing a horse, he escaped from the lockup on the horse he was accused of stealing, using the magistrate’s saddle and bridle.
John’s became known as “Moondyne Joe”, and his life became a cycle of escapes and recaptures. His most famous escape was from a specially strengthened cell al Fremantle Prison.
In his later years Moondyne Joe married a young widow and kept out of prison. In 1900 he was found to be of unsound mind and died at the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum. The inscription on his tombstone “rhyddid” is Welsh meaning “freedom”.
[Metropolitan Cemetery Board]
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Fremantle Cemetery Western Australia
Charles Yelverton O’Connor (1843-1902) Engineer
Charles Yelverton “C.Y.” O’Connor was born and educated in Ireland. Aged 22, he ,moved to New Zealand and established himself as a brilliant engineer. In 1891, Western Australian Premier John Forrest offered O’Connor a job working on “railways, harbours, everything”.
O’Connor’s first job as an Engineer-In-Chief of the Public Works Department was to build a new harbour at Fremantle. Construction of the port was completed in 1897, and O’Connor received a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George the same year.
O’Connor’s plans to provide a permanent supply of fresh water uphill to the Coolgardie goldfields were also underway at the same time. The scheme consisted of three key elements – the Mundaring Weir, which was fed with water from the Helena River in the Darling Scarp; a 760 mm (30 in) diameter steel pipe which ran from the dam to Kalgoorlie 530 kilometers (330 mi) away; and a series of eight steam powered pumping stations and two small holding dams to control pressures and to lift the water over the Darling Scarp ridge. At the time it was built it was the longest freshwater pipeline in the world
His solution was “simple and elegant” but he was brutally criticised in parliament and by the press. The massive project was nearing completion when O’Connor rode his horse into the sea near Robb Jetty on 10 March 1902 and shot himself. His devoted Public Works Department staff paid for the granite Celtic cross marking the grave.
By the end of 1902 the pipeline was completed as planned and was opened in 1903 by John Forrest amid much celebration. C.Y. O’Connor’s pipeline was entered onto the National Heritage List in 2011.
[Metropolitan Cemeteries Board and Wikipedia]
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-04-2015, 06:38 PM
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First lead singer for ACDC Bon Scott in the Fremantle Cemetary West Australia..
Note the Australian Heritage listing plaque on the right hand side and the fan tributes around the edges.
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