Con Stiggas outside his tunnel dugout home on Stingas Road on The Flat. Date of photo unknown. Photo source facebook See HS 00106 for report on the death of Con Stingas at age 68 in 1988. Greek spelling of his name Tsigas. He had the nickname "Spy" due to his undercover activities for the British during the war.
Con Stiggas in his tunnel dugout home on Stingas Road on The Flat. Date of photo unknown. Photo source facebook See HS 00106 for report on the death of Con Stingas at age 68 in 1988. Greek spelling of his name Tsigas. He had the nickname "Spy" due to his undercover activities for the British during the war.
Photo of Underground Catacomb Church Coober Pedy South Australia by Peter Caust
BI 00006 19 Australian Dictionary of Biography Wollaston, Tullie Cornthwaite (1863 - 1931) by Bernard O'Neil
CO 00080 Brochure OPAL INN Coober Pedy SA Hotel Motel Caravan Park
SH 00028 Program for Carols by Candle Light published by Coober Pedy Area School
The Bicycle Bushmen, Jim and Dick O'Neill with Fred Blakeley and Jethro Fred spent 5 years cycling around NSW and Queensland working as a shearer and station hand and opal mining. In June 1908, the three mates Fred Blakeley, Jim and Dick ONeill - travelled 2,200 miles by bicycle from Broken Hill to Darwin. Blakeley's book Hard Liberty tells about this journey.