For many long term residents we may all have heard of the odd old mine shaft opening up in someones backyerd after a big rain storm. There have even been a couple I have seen in the middle of the road (both in Boulder). However there are many old shafts within the city centre which […]
William Thomas Maddern – Goldfields Hero
A Goldfield’s Soldier of the Great War – Lance Corporal William Thomas Maddern, MM William Thomas MADDERN was born at Woods Point, Victoria in 1889, the son of William Henry and Isabella (nee Shade) Maddern. At the outbreak of WW1 he was newly married to Evelyn Ann (Crouch) Maddern, they had a young daughter […]
United British Women’s Emigration Scheme
The United British Women’s Emigration Association publishes the following:- from the West Australian 24 March 1894, page 4 ” Ten Reasons why Women should go to Western Australia ” (1) It is the only country to which the whole passage-money is offered free. It cost £17 17s. to go there, paying one’s own passage. It only costs the free passengers £1 for ship […]
What is a Tributer ???
The tribute method of mining has been used through out the world. Tributers generally work in gangs, and had a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive a certain portion of the ore, or so much per pound, as […]
Left Waiting at the Church
WAITING AT THE CHURCH. PLIGHT OF A PAIR IN PICCADILLY A Brace of Boulderites Kept Waiting at the Matrimonial Starting Barrier— For the Parson who ” Forgot.” 11th April 1909 A NOW HAPPY PAIR (since they are married) who, for the best part of an hour, on Wednesday afternoon last, feared that their chance of […]
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