The Wedding of James Faul and Annie Nutman 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 bride’s parents and it looks like no expense was spared. The church where the wedding took place was St Michael […]
Arthur King or Theo Herchler – grave tales
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Arthur KING – real name Theodore HERCHLER Born in Germany in September 1859. As a young man Arthur was a student of the Conservatoire of Music where he graduated with honours. He then started working with Gilbert and Sullivan, Doyle Carte in England as a repetiteur or rehearsal pianist. On the 22nd October 1890, he […]
Oldest Bike Store in Australia
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Kalgoorlie Miner, Tuesday 24 December 1901, page 6 ARMSTRONG’S CYCLE AGENCY. The growth of the business of Armstrong’s Cycle Agency ever since its inception has been astonishing, and it would probably be a very difficult matter to find a parallel case. The firm, which is the oldest in this line of business on the goldfields, […]
Fanny Hannah Hunt – pioneer profile
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GOLD- that commodity was so powerful, but as a child, I played with it as a toy. It was a glass phial of specks and small nuggets in liquid and tightly corked. I remember shaking it and watching the dull yellow stuff glint in the light. I must have loved it as no accident ever […]
Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 3 October 2021
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Hi Everyone, and a big welcome to all of our 49 new readers. We hope that you will stick with us and that you enjoy the stories to come as much as I enjoy finding them. At this time there are over 1300 stories on the blog so I am sure if you take the […]
