ARTHUR POSTLE “THE CRIMSON FLASH” WORLD CHAMPION ATHLETE Born in 1881 at Springside near Pittsworth in Queensland – Arthur Postle was revered around the globe in the years before World War I as the fastest man alive. He turned professional in 1902 and on 5 December 1906 in Kalgoorlie Western Australia he set a world record beating […]
Archives for April 2015
A Man was Killed in the Mine Today – Poem
05/04/2015 By 1 Comment
I entered the cage for the ‘Number Nine’ A trucker paused at the brace to say, As he left the depths of the gloomy mine, A man was killed in the mine today! Then the winder sang as we rushed below, And the plats flashed upwards merrily, And yet to toil. Yet it came to […]
George GAYFORD, Prospector – grave tales
05/04/2015 By Leave a Comment
This is a photograph of George Gayford, a prospector, taken about 1935 in Wilina. He died the same year as this photo was taken. He is buried in the Wiluna Cemetery I have always thought this image captures the hard life of the prospector in the early days. How tough must he have been to […]
Bridget Delia Oates – grave tales
03/04/2015 By 7 Comments
The following photograph is of the headstone and grave of Bridget Delia Oates, who was the beloved wife of Richard Knight Oates, born in County Clare Ireland on 28 Jan 1873. She died at Kalgoorlie on the 17th Sep 1909 aged 37 years. This photograph was taken just after the headstone, ledger, and grave fencing […]
Mount Magnet – Goldfields Town
02/04/2015 By 3 Comments
Latitude : 28 04 S Longitude : 117 51 E Western Australia Mount Magnet is a townsite in the Murchison goldfields, 569 km north east of Perth and 126 km east of Yalgoo. Gold was discovered in the Mount Magnet area in July 1891 by the prospectors George Woodley and Tom Sampey. By late 1893 […]
