The wedding of the daughter of the North Kalgurli mine, Annie Nutman, was celebrated in style. This photograph shows the wedding party at the home of the brides parents and it looks like no expense was spared. The church where the wedding took place was St Michael and All Angels, Brownhill. The ceremony must have […]
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Anzac Service – St George’s Church Boulder
25/04/2015 By 8 Comments
This photograph shows the St George’s Presbyterian Church in Moran Street Boulder ready for the Anzac Service on the 26th April 1931. In the far right you will see displayed the Honour Board which is today in the keeping of the Goldfields War Museum. It has the names of 114 service men and members of the […]
First Mayor of Coolgardie – James Shaw
24/04/2015 By 2 Comments
James Shaw was born in 1846 in Belfast Ireland, his father was Hugh Shaw, an engineer and his mother was Margaret, they married in Victoria. In 1864, age 18, James Shaw sailed to Auckland New Zealand where he started a contracting business which was most successful. He also won a service medal for fighting in […]
BONNIEVALE – The Mincham Family
21/04/2015 By 3 Comments
This photograph which is one of many Goldfields photographs belonging to the ‘Mincham Family Photos’ collection and shows Eliza Mincham seated outside her home (left) with a friend and their children (and dog). Eliza was to have four children all born at Bonnievale before she and her husband Charles Stephen Mincham left in 1907 and moved […]
Titanic Sinks – How the Goldfields Heard!!!
14/04/2015 By 1 Comment
On the 14th April 1912, 103 yrs ago today the SS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. The following is a copy of the newspaper article from the 16th April 1912 from the Kalgoorlie Miner and describes how the people of the Goldfields of Western Australia were first told of the tragedy. WHITE STAR LINER […]
