17 November 1896, Port Adelaide Tuesday 7 a.m. My Dearest Wifie We have just arrived here per Gabo and leave again this afternoon at 4 p.m. so we have been little time for this part the city of Adelaide or churches as it is often called by irreverent persons. It is situated 7 miles from […]
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Ghost Town – Gindalbie
03/06/2015 By 2 Comments
Gindalbie – Western Australia Latitude 30 degrees 20’S Longitude 121 degrees 45’E Gindalbie is an abandoned Goldfields townsite located about 55kms north east of Kalgoorlie. In 1898 when it was proposed to establish a town here the name nominated was ‘Vosperton’. This was to honour a well-known Goldfields identity, newspaperman Frederick Charles Burleigh Vosper. He […]
Menzies to Kalgoorlie Bike Race – 1930
01/06/2015 By Leave a Comment
Australia’s Richest Handicap Cycle Race Cycling has been part of the Goldfields since the courier cyclist in the 1890’s carried messages around the Goldfields before the telegraph line came to the region. This year’s Minara Resources Goldfields Cyclassic will continue as a two-stage handicap race across the rich and historic landscape of the Western Australian outback from Kalgoorlie-Boulder to Menzies […]
