Thanks to Faye (Desmond) Keeffe, this is Bob Desmond’s story as he told it titled “Looking Back Down the Dusty Track”, written in April 1999. Robert (Bob) Desmond’s Diary Well …
Timothy Smiddy (Ned) Higgins
Born: 16th December 1906Married Sylvia May Stevens 2nd March 1931Died: 15th September 1993 at the age of 87. PREFACE BY TONY CRITCH Growing up in the 1950s and 60s …
The Olman Story
The Beginnings of the Olman Family in the Mullewa /Tenindewa areas – as supplied by Lindsay Olman (2015) Archibald Alfred Alexander Olman The Davies family came to Mullewa in 1926, …
Albert Cream – My Farming Life at Ajax 1951- 1987
The early days At a Christmas tree function at Tenindewa in 1950, I agreed to go share farming with Dave Heelan on his farm named Ajax. The farm was named …
The Flock Reduction Scheme
View PostRob and Mel Weir History
Matthew Robert Weir was born on 17th Jan 1917 in the Goldfields town of Menzies. His parents were Matthew and Louisa Weir. Louisa, whose maiden name was Baker. Her parents …
Tenindewa Store & Post Office
View PostOn the Road Again – an autobiography by Kevin Critch
Kevin was born in Geraldton in 1921 and died in 2010. His autobiography starts in 1853 when his grandfather was born, and documents Kevin’s life each decade until the 1990s.
Keith Butler
1929 to 2012 (Eulogy by Tony Critch) May I start by adding my condolences to Elaine, to Craig, Jenny and Alex, Gloria and Doreen and all of the extended Butler …