A Tale of Three Cities
Albany, Fremantle and Perth: The three oldest cities in Western Australia: At each other’s throats.
Category Archives: Places
This is all about locations visited, photographed, mapped, written about.
On Cemetery Hill
A visit to the Old East Perth Cemetery, where generations of Colonial Western Australians have been laid to uneasy rest, including all too many Dysons.
The Smoking Gun
Today is a red-letter day. Today I found the smoking gun. I discovered the actual connection between the Dyson family and the construction of the Wesleyan Church in Perth Western Australia.
Dyson’s Hotel
The story of the corner of King and Murray Street in the city of Perth, Western Australia, continued.
Dyson’s Corner (the First)
The corner of King and Murray Street in the city of Perth, Western Australia
Under the Establishment
A visit to the tunnels under the old Convict Establishment in Fremantle, Western Australia
Thurso
The northernmost town on the the British mainland.
Aberdeen
The granite city of Scotland.
Rottnest Island #1: It’s a start
One of the more annoying legends I had to endure when I grew up was how integral Rottnest Island was to the hearts and minds of all true Western Australians. Located only a few kilometres off the coast from Fremantle and easily visible from the continental shore, it was the mythical holiday island of the state. Tradition was, as far as I could tell, you weren’t a true-blue sandgroper unless you’d been conceived there in a boozy, sandy orgy of debauchery, preferably during the school…
Leetown to Auchterarder
When certain members of the Dyson clan chose to deny their Lancashire heritage of robbery and mayhem, they liked to pretend their antecedents came from Scotland (As you do.) However, some of them truly did: These were the Brough family from Perthshire, Scotland.