North Kalgoorlie School Cadets, winners of the best shooting school cadets. Taken in 1909. Back row ? SMITH, Jack BACKHOUSE, Captain Lionel JEFFRIES, E STRANGER, Eric LEAN Front Row: Royce WOODHEAD, Tom CLEMENTS, B CAPLE, Sid KINGS. Young Royce Woodhead would have been 14 yrs old in this photograph although he look younger. The shooting […]
Isaac Goss – A Christian Man in Every Sense
Issac William Goss, Undertaker – This is one of my favorite photographs. It is of the Goss family taken at their home in Piesse Street, Boulder in 1910. The family was well known for their Undertakers business in Piesse Street, Boulder. Many of the headstone in our local cemeteries have their maker’s name on them. […]
I started reading ‘Where Is Brown Hill’ – by Tony Bozich
I started reading ‘Where Is Brown Hill’, having last read it years ago, people sometimes ask “Is it there still?” but really deep in their hearts they know. For Brown Hill is no more, not even a trace, yet real people and mines there existed, homes, mothers buying their daughters lace, and streets and schools […]
The Metropolitan Hotel – Coolgardie hotels 8
The Metropolitan Hotel Coolgardie: When Pat Kennedy and his wife vacated the site on the north-eastern corner of Bayley and Fords streets in 1894, Fred Brewer erected a hotel two years later which was called The Metropolitan. The hotel had two frontages – one on Bayley Street and the other in Ford Street, with he […]
Where is Quinns – ghost towns
xgy z vxsd+632. Many of you may not have heard of the small settlement of Quinns in the Murchison of Western Australia. It is described in 1895 as ‘A picturesque spot, half way between Nannine and Barambi, and was at one time the largest alluvial field on the Murchison. The Phoenix is the main mine, […]
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