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The Wiluna Crossing Smash

07/10/2017 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

James Farrell Read Age 18 who was killed in a train collision at Wiluna in 1936. Kalgoorlie Miner – 2 April 1936, page 4 WILUNA GROSSING SMASH TWO KILLED AND FIVE INJURED TAXI SMASHES INTO RAIL TANK The already long list of level crossing fatalities was added to yet again last night when two persons […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, rail history, Western Australia, Wiluna

Gold and Ghosts – book review

05/10/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Gold and Ghosts Vol 1

Gold and Ghosts Vol 1 and Vol 2 – by D W de Havelland Many of you, I am sure, will have heard of the series of books called ‘Gold and Ghosts’! There are four volumes in the series and many consider them to be the ‘Prospectors Bible”. It is Vol 1 and Vol 2 […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian History, Gold and Ghosts, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Mining Accidents, Western Australia

Miss Elsie Fletcher – grave tales

03/10/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

On the 13th February 1903 Miss Elsie Evelyn Fletcher died at her parents home at 3 Brookman Street, Boulder. She was the eldest daughter of Edmund and Elsie Fletcher of Boulder. her father was a well known butcher in Burt Street. It is not known what caused her death, she wasnt admitted to hospital. Sadly […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Fletcher, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

A Gentleman of the Road-

30/09/2017 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Patrick PELLY

Four years after the establishment of the Department of Mines, it bore little resemblance to the tiny Mining Branch which had started operation within the Department of Lands and Surveys in Perth WA. Mr Patrick Pelly, a clerk with the Department, was remembered as ‘a reserved, courteous and obliging old fellow’, however he was without […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Bush rangers, Western Australia

Blake the Bold – a ripping yarn

29/09/2017 By Moya Sharp 6 Comments

In the town of Mt Magnet, one of the local public figures, a police constable, became very unpopular due to his making a point of closing the Grand Hotel at night whilst allowing the Royal Mail Hotel to keep trading.  This situation came to a head when he arrested a man for swearing in the […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Mt Magnet, police history, Western Australia

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