ABC Landline have put up a FB post with some photos taken in the 1990’s of some WA old timers: all gone now
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My Nan told us a story of how during the polio outbreak in Launceston in the 1930’s she was sent away to the country to stay with family for a while, and they went up to Ringarooma where her uncles were mining tin. She said they never married, had long beards and didn’t say much. She remembered a long walk through the bush to go and see them at the mine. We have a photo of them standing by a head frame and its exactly like that, ragged looking men with long beards wearing dirty suits.
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As you can see they lived the “High Life”! Palatial homes & lavish lifestyle!
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Just lacking some “sophisticated investors” to boost their coffers
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