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Kalgoorlie Hospital Admission Records – No 8

26/08/2023 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

The next files are now released:   “3600 individual new entries” File 37 and 38 –  from 30th January 1916 to 27 August 1919  The Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, told us some 17 years ago, that all of the original patient admission registers from the very first days of the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital were still stored in […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Hospital, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

George August Dux – pioneer profile

19/08/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following story was sent to me by the President of the East Gippsland Family History Group, Debbie Squires,  about one of their ‘locals’ who came west! “G.A.D.” has left an entertaining (and informative) description of Bairnsdale and districts in his writings – but who was he? There are a few clues in the narrative. […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Broad Arrow, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Helena Maud ‘Lily’ Pike – grave tales

19/08/2023 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

On the 27th April 1906, Helena ‘Lily’ Maud Pike (nee Rosevere) aged 30yrs, passed away at the St John of God Hospital in Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie from Typhoid. She was the wife of councillor Eustace Walter Pike and the mother of one child, James Albert, aged 6yrs. The couple had married in Adelaide SA in […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

The Swagmans Friend –

19/08/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Quart-Pot and Billy-Can No utensil is so generally used in the bush as the billy-can; none is more widely distributed, none better known in Australia. It is cheap, light, useful, and a burden to no man. It goes with every traveller, it figures in comedy and tragedy and has been the repository of the […]

Filed Under: Dolly Pot, Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales

Beware of Victorians Bearing Gifts –

19/08/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail 29 September 1938, page 11 OVER THE PLATES One Day in Early Kanowna. A couple of young Victorians blew into camp one morning with a spring cart loaded with fresh vegetables, no more than a week old at least. Every man on the field was troubled with ‘Barcoo Rot‘, so the half-withered green […]

Filed Under: Dolly Pot, People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Towns and Places Tagged With: Goldfields History, Kanowna, Western Australia

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