A good place to start:
Everything:
extinct on the mainland,
you shouldn’t kick it like a football,
or feed it by the hand.
Most recent:
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Pavement Archaeology
On the pavements of around where I live in a southern suburb of Perth in Western Australia, are many concrete slabs of various shapes, sizes, and marked with various esoteric designs. Show me anything with two or more variations on a basic pattern of anything and I’m going to want to understand why, or more…
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Dyson’s hat
Kings Meadows Convict Station discovery finds artefacts, convict hat
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A Tale of Three Cities
Albany, Fremantle and Perth: The three oldest cities in Western Australia: At each other’s throats.
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On a Roll
Was your ancestor a member of the Sons of Australia Benefit Society (1837-1897)?
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Dyson’s Corner (the Second)
Joseph Dyson became a husband and a father (though not necessarily in that order) during the year 1872. It was time for him to strike out and get a house of his own. Thus the second Dyson’s corner was formed.
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Our George Dyson
A brief overview of George Dyson’s life, the most accomplished Dyson you’ve never heard about.
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Thomas Dyson: The Canny one
When Thomas Dyson was a young boy, he shot the son of his father’s main business rival in the head. After that, his fortunes could only improve.
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The Fate of The First Wife, Part III
Fanny Dyson’s end was horrible and no-one comes out of this event looking good.
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The Fate of the First Wife, Part II
The new evidence
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The Fate of the First Wife, Part I
This is a reconstruction of the last years of the life of Mrs Frances (Fanny) Dyson, the first wife of James Dyson, and mother to his first four children. This is a very different narrative to the one that which has heretofore been told, and has been accepted as the truth for nigh on one…
