Christine Harris

The Sacred Nugget In the late 1890s, Kanowna experienced a gold rush frenzy culminating in the hoax of the “Sacred Nugget.” A fake gold find, manipulated by pranksters using scrap iron and gold paint, in…

#history #western_Australia #ghost_towns #gold_rush #genealogy
My latest blog for the @ghostswa.bsky.social project
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Meanwhile in Venice...
#travel #photography #Italy #Venice #Venezia #Europe

Eastern Water Dragon #Australia #fauna #NewSouthWales #nature #photography

I visited the Cathedral last September completely unaware that Jane Austen was buried there. How could that be? I have read her work all my life, but somehow had assumed that she was buried either in Chawton or in Westminster Abbey. They sit on her during services!

#flora #flower #photography
Snake Vine

#Sydney #travel #photography

Tulip time here in Perth #flowers #tulips #red #photography #flora

#travel #Sydney #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneyHarbourBridge #SydneyHarbour #photography

Burglary or Misstep? A Curious Case in Higginsville, 1907 In the early days of January 1907, the quiet mining town of Higginsville, Western Australia, found itself at the centre of a curious legal drama. Nestled in the…

Did he or didn't he? #history #genealogy #familyhistory #WesternAustralia #ghosttowns #trial #burglary
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Ernest Giles and the 1875 Expedition Across Australia Map of Giles’s Route (Surveyor General’s Office, 1875) – Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Digitized and available via the National Library of Australia; this work is out of…

One of Australia's lesser known explorers. #ghostswa #FamilyHistoryWA #genealogy #familyhistory @christineharris.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
ghostswa.au/2025/08/30/u... #UlarringWA #UllaringWA @familyhistorywa.bsky.social

I have always loved this photo! Looking at it makes me forget that today's weather is atrocious! 🙂 #tulip #flower #pink

I know of your society, but up til now the project has been so huge that we have looked at it holistically. Now that we have processes in place, it becomes easier to step back and look at the individual communities. I know @simondmd.bsky.social has been watching with interest.

We have a number of teams working on different aspects. Places look at whether the place really is abandoned. Research looks at potential sources. Indexers capture references to individuals. Writers prepare community profiles.

At our last Project Board meeting, we accepted a further 16 places to be added to our master list. There are now 555 places making up our project with a further 450-odd alternative names for many of the original 555!!

@janejanealogy.bsky.social The primary goal of the People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns project is to create an index of all the people associated with those towns, but the second goal is to document everything we can find about those towns/communities/places. So I agree. :-)

Phase 4 is on its way! On Friday 29 August, 2025, we will move into Phase 4 of our project and that adds 16 new communities to the list of communities on which we are already working. The biggest community in this phase …

PHASE 4 OF THE GHOSTS TOWNS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA PROJECT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER
Check out the names of the 16 new communities that will be added to the project this coming Friday, August 29.
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#genealogy #familyhistory #ghost-towns

Sunset in Geraldton, Western Australia
#photography #skyscape #sunset #seascape #travel

Visited the Terracotta Warriors exhibition today. Extraordinary!

Port Douglas, Queensland
#photography #travel #Australia

Fountains Abbey
#travel #photography #England #Yorkshire

Winchester Cathedral #photography #travel

Cossack – 12 June 1897 On this day in 1897, Roebourne defeated Cossack in a close match.

ON THIS DAY - Cossack 12 Jun 1897 😀
#cricket #cossackwa #Genealogy #history #FamilyHistory #ghosttowns
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We Are a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder WeAre.xyz: a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder

Totally agree @genealogymum.bsky.social. I am loving weare.xyz and am using it to write about anything and everything - family history or not! Love it.

Captured Records at 31 May 2025 Our project team are working hard to capture as many records as possible of the people in WA’s ghost communities. Once our website and search engine is fully operational you will be able to a…

To keep everyone up to date with the progress being made on the project, we will be posting a monthly update to our blog. Here is the first of these posts. 👍
#genealogy #familyhistory #ghosttowns #westernaustralia #history
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The State Brickworks Early in the 20th century, the price of bricks became higher. In order to stop the price of bricks getting too high, the Government built a Brickworks at Homebush in 1911. In 1936, it was sold to priv...

The Homebush Brickworks was where my grandfather, Ted Hamilton, worked for most of his adult life. #genealogy #familyhistory #blog
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20:59 #sunset of today
#Nature #stunday

The People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns project FamilyHistoryWA has launched a project to create a digital index of all the people associated with the hundreds of ghost towns in Western Australia. We will also be creating a digital archive telling ...

We are fundraising for the People of Western Australia’s Ghost Towns project. Please help us to keep this project sustainable.
www.mycause.com.au/page/372166/...

#travel #photography #clouds #skyscape

Just set up a timeline in Notion. Having fun! :-)

Here in Western Australia we call them 28s (it sounds like they are saying 28 when they squawk).