Yesterday I went on a tour with the Adelaide Northern Districts Family History Group which went to Little Para Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery, One Tree Hill Cemetery, Uley Baptist Cemetery and Uleybury School.
genealogy
Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign
Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign
“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”
— Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
If you’ve come to this page, you’re probably curious about the “Viewable With Any Browser” themed button on it. Here’s my explanation. I am very unhappy with the current trend towards web sites designing only for specific browsers and ignoring others. It’s extremely annoying to me to visit a web site and to find that I’ve been rejected until I come back with Netscape or Internet Explorer. It’s also annoying to visit web sites that allow you in with any browser, but rely heavily on tags only supported in a few popular browsers, or leave out support for text browsers.
I would like to reverse this trend. I know I can’t change the web by myself, but every little bit counts, and this is my vote for a platform independent, non-browser specific World Wide Web. So, I have displayed the “Viewable With Any Browser” button to emphasize that I try to create my web sites to be viewable in all browsers, and totally functional. Some pages may look better in some browsers than others, but they should all be readable by any browser. I try to only use browser specific tags in appropriate manners, and only if there’s a good reason for their use, and in the cases in which I’ve used tags which only some browsers support, such as image maps, frames, Java, etc., I have done my best to utilize the graceful degradability options available in HTML or provided alternatives for browsers that don’t support them. Please let me know if you come across anything on my web pages that doesn’t work in your browser (be specific about what browser you’re using and what didn’t work) and I’ll try to fix it.
I invite anyone who wants to join in this effort to go ahead and copy any of the many graphics provided by participants in the campaign, which are available on the Any Browser Graphics page. If you feel like creating other graphics for the campaign, please do! (and let me know if I can provide that graphic for others to use). I would prefer if you linked the graphic to this page, so that people know what it’s all about, or create your own page about this campaign, but if you don’t want to that’s cool with me too.
What Are You Listening To, What Are You Reading etc
What are you listening to?
Simon & Garfunkel Old Friends album
What are you reading?
I’ve got quite a number of books to read or look through at the moment.
Vintage Adelaide – Peter Fischer
Lost Adelaide – Michael Burden
Rag Rugs – JuJu Vail
Crochet – Jane Davis
The Art Of Graeme Base – Julie Watts
I love Graeme’s books and reading about his childhood and his developing talent is very interesting. There’s a lovely photo of a wistful young Graeme, holding his teddy, newly arrived in Australia from England.
Nancy Wake – a biography – Peter Fitzsimons
Stranger In The House – Julie Summers
The Prayer That Changes Everything – Stormie Omartian
From My Heart To Yours – Robin McGraw
What websites are you visiting?
facebook
friend’s blog footprints diary
ancestry.com.au I’m uploading photos from my trip and inputting all the information I found in Bendigo and Elmore, Victoria, Aust.
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My Great Great Grandfather & A Fatal Mining Accident 1881
Transcript of the above article:
Misfortunes never come singly. The deplorable accident which happened yesterday at the Catherine Reef United mine, Eaglehawk,by which the lives of two miners were suddenly cut off, has been closely followed by another fatal mishap, the scene now being the mine of the Carlisle North Garden Gully and Passby Company, near Long Gully. The victim was a young man, 28 years of age named George Jenkin, who leaves a wife and two children very badly provided for. It appears that during some recent baling operations at the mine the tank, in its passage up and down the shaft, knocked against the skids and injured the timbering. Two of the men employed by the company—the deceased and a miner named Richard Wigley—were on Tuesday night put on to repair the timber-
ing, and to do the work they took off the baling-tank from the eastern compartment of the shaft and put on a bucket in its place, on which they could sit and get more conveniently to their work of fixing the skids. This morning about 4 o’clock the men finished their work, with the exception of putting in one skid. They signalled to be raised to the surface to get the skid they required, but when the bucket had been brought up to about 680ft. from the surface, Jenkin knocked his shoulder against one of the frames of the sets, and losing his hold of the rope fell off the bucket, on the edge of which he and his mate were standing, and was precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, which is 1,340ft. deep, the unfortunate man, therefore falling a depth of 660ft., and
dropping into the well, which contained 23ft. of water. The sudden swaying of the bucket, caused by the jerk, and the removal of Jenkin’s weight from one side, placed Wigley in a very perilous position, for on the one hand he was in danger of being caught in the frame sets, as Jenkin had been, and again the bucket tilted through the weight being all on one side. He was in imminent danger of losing his footing and following his mate. He managed, however, to cling to the rope until he reached the surface, when men were at once sent to the bottom of the shaft to recover Jenkin’s body. It was never hoped that he would reach the surface alive. Grappling irons were sent down, and the well was dragged, but several hours elapsed before the body was raised above water. It was in a dreadfully mangled state, the unfortunate man having no doubt in his fall knocked from side to side against the timbers in the shaft.
The accident appears to have arisen from carelessness. The regulation of Mines Statute provides that men shall not ride on a bucket up or down the shaft without being lashed to the rope attached to the cage. A great many miners object to being lashed to the rope. Jenkin and his mate objected similarly, and although they were furnished with rope for lashing purposes, they did not use it. An inquest will be held tomorrow.
Richard Henry Wigley was my great great grandfather. The mine where he worked is in Bendigo. I went to the place where the mine used to be. There are only a few things left and a plaque now.
Bendigo
