Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
As promised (albeit two weeks late!) the following is the end result of a research project bravely taken on in the last 18 months by John Pritchard whose help I find invaluable. He took the 'basic' cemetery record for the Cue Cemetery which consisted … [Continue reading]
The Priest and the Policeman by Peter Conole (WA Police Historian, Retired 2013) with permission from the Police Historical Soc - http://www.policewahistory.org.au/HTML_Pages/Museum.html The above photograph is a fairly well known West … [Continue reading]
Coolgardie Pioneer 24 December 1898, page 38 THE MAYOR AND HIS ESTABLISHMENT "I don't want no pioneering life, take me back to Collingwood." This was the strain sung by an Eastern states poet who visited and was disgusted with these … [Continue reading]
I was recently sent the following story by Andrew Ricketts about one of our more well-known members of the Goldfields Sporting Hall of Fame, Walter Lindrum, he was in fact one of the original inductees in 2005. About the author:- Andrew Ricketts, … [Continue reading]
I am a digger at Mulgabbie and I'd like to rise and say Dryblowing is a swearful game to most diggers anyway. You work for days without a color, then have a lengthy swear that takes two solid windy days to cleanse the atmosphere. If an … [Continue reading]
