Fri 17th Jul 1942 Kalgoorlie Miner BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED ON WARBURTON RANGES TRACK LAVERTON AMBULANCE LONG TRIP About noon yesterday, the Laverton ambulance commenced a 200-mile trip each way along Warburton Ranges to attend a boy seriously injured when run over by a tractor trailer. The boy is John William Wade, the 13-year-old son of Mr […]
The Fighting Leane’s
The following story was sent to me by Kerry Satchwell. She is not related to the Leane family, but lives in a house that used to belong to them in Swanbourne, Perth WA. While researching the house’s history she came across their amazing story. The Leane family would, in the words of official war historian […]
The Monte Christo Quarry – by D Daws
This story was originally presented to the Eastern Goldfields Historical Soc in 2018. It is now reproduced here with the permission of the author, Doug Daws. When Paddy Hannan and his partners, Flanagan and Shea, discovered gold at Kalgoorlie in June 1893, they were quickly surrounded by literally thousands of other gold prospectors who, too, […]
Police Honour Legendry Tracker Pannican
Police Honour Legendary Aboriginal Tracker On the 2nd of July 2008, a memorial was unveiled in Kalgoorlie for one of the state’s most renowned Aboriginal police trackers. Johnny Grey, also known as Pannican, who was considered one of the best trackers of his time. He worked for the police in the Laverton-Leonora area from 1942 […]
Murchison Reminiscences
The Umpire – 24 December 1901, page 4 LIFE ON THE GOLDFIELDS A Few Murchison Reminiscences by D T Morgan If the man who battled for the precious metal 0n the Murchison five or six years ago dropped down there again and expected to find things as they were, he would be sadly disappointed. True, […]
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