Community spirit rises to meet Mr and Mrs Dawson CRUDEN BAY says tangible thanks to SCWS manager and his wife—Mr and Mrs Alfred Dawson, who are leaving for Aboyne—with a refrigerator and box of chocolates—with Mr Witham Burns doing the honours on behalf of the...
An article from THE Aberdeen Leopard, This is the first of several articles on the links between North East Scotland and Australia to mark the Bicentennial. There can be few who have not heard of the Australian-born Rupert Murdoch, one of the 20th century’s most...
Image created for creatative purposes by Cruden Bay Life An article from THE REGISTER, a newspaper published in Adelaide, Australia, on Saturday, 20th January 1912. WRECK OF WISTOW HALLTERRIBLE EXPERIENCES Further particulars have been received concerning the wreck of...
(No. 7535.) “WISTOW HALL” (S.S.). The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. In the matter of a Formal Investigation held at Liverpool on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 14th days of May, 1912, before STUART DEACON, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate, assisted by Vice-Admiral JOHN...
Image created for creatative purposes by Cruden Bay Life This article explores how early-20th-century British newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, portrayed Lascar seamen—sailors from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa—as visibly out of place in Britain. A...
