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What's in a name? Diggings names that may hold the key
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<blockquote data-quote="SWright" data-source="post: 46847" data-attributes="member: 1541"><p>G'Day</p><p></p><p>there are lots of them for sure. What about all the sailors gullys - named after a gully full of sailors that jumped ship to go to the gold fields. "Who is in that gully mate?" - "just a bunch of sailors just up from Melbourne". Apparently hundreds of ships were stuck in Melbourne for want of sailors to man them. At one stage the ship's owners were offering better that what the blokes could get in Ballarat just to man the ships back to England. A whole lot dead horse, dead dog and dead cat gullies which are pretty self explanatory. Brandy and whiskey gullies also.</p><p></p><p>One story I like was the story about Growlers Gully near Bright in Victoria. Apparently there was this old prospector up this gully and when anyone asked how he was doing he always growled and said "gettin noffingk". Apparently he also always paid his bills and was there for over five years, so it could not have all that bad.</p><p></p><p>Araluen</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SWright, post: 46847, member: 1541"] G'Day there are lots of them for sure. What about all the sailors gullys - named after a gully full of sailors that jumped ship to go to the gold fields. "Who is in that gully mate?" - "just a bunch of sailors just up from Melbourne". Apparently hundreds of ships were stuck in Melbourne for want of sailors to man them. At one stage the ship's owners were offering better that what the blokes could get in Ballarat just to man the ships back to England. A whole lot dead horse, dead dog and dead cat gullies which are pretty self explanatory. Brandy and whiskey gullies also. One story I like was the story about Growlers Gully near Bright in Victoria. Apparently there was this old prospector up this gully and when anyone asked how he was doing he always growled and said "gettin noffingk". Apparently he also always paid his bills and was there for over five years, so it could not have all that bad. Araluen [/QUOTE]
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