I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand Which, I’m told is very tony – and its front looks very grand And somehow fell a-thinking of a pub I know so well Of a place in West Australia called The Bulletin Hotel Just a little six-room shanty built of corrugated tin […]
The Great Beer Strike of 1903 – Victory!!!!
BEER STRIKE AT MT MORGANS VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS. Kalgoorlie Western Argus: 14 July 1903. – A correspondent, telegraphing under yesterday’s date from Mt. Morgans, states: A fierce and decisive battle has been fought in this town, the contest lasting exactly 48 hours. The miners, led by Captain Frampton, held a meeting on Friday night […]
The Killer Cyclone of ’28’
RAVAGED GOLDFIELDS TOWNS Cyclone Claims Child Victim. PREMIER CAUGHT IN STATION WRECK Total Damage Estimated at £150,000 Albany Advertiser 14th Feb 1928 – Sent hurtling through the air by the fury of the cyclone that devastated the goldfields towns on Friday, a sheet of iron struck down six year old Violet Guy, of 198 Piesse […]
Death on the Woodline
It wasn’t only working on the mines that was a dangerous occupation but working on the wood lines, was also marred with frequent accidents. This article is about a well know wood cutter “Ilija Radunovich’ who was killed in a terrible accident at Lakewood. Ilija ws a married man of 45yrs whose wife, Kece, and […]
An Eerie Premonition – Michael Madden
I had been researching the accidental death of this miner because of an entry I found in the Annual Report from the Department of Mines for 1897 which stated, that a miner called ‘John Madden’ had been killed in an accident on the Goongarrie GM. As this name was not one I had listed I […]
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