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And a Good Time Was Had By All

30/08/2016 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Egg and Spoon Race, Bricknells Picnic 1908

Every Year the Bricknell Grocery Store in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie would hold a picnic for their employees which was a much looked forward to event. It was usually held in September and all the staff would attend. There were games and races and lots of food and drink. The event was usually held outside of […]

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Filed Under: Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Bricknells, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

The Rose Garden Memorial – KRH

28/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Cyril Joseph Della Bosca

Kalgoorlie regional Hospital, St Albans Road, Kalgoorlie Western Australia,  ‘Lat: -30.741389  Long: 121.471111’ (Photographs by Sandy Duncan) Many Readers may be unaware that we have a WW2 memorial at the Rose Garden at the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital at the St Albans Road Entrance. The memorial is in the form of an individual plaque for a […]

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Filed Under: Rolls of Honor Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, War, Western Australia

BULONG – or the I.O.U

27/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Bulong Post Office

  Excerpts from an interesting account of the early days of Bulong which appeared  in the Kalgoorlie Miner newspaper Monday 16th June 1952 Bulong, situated about 20 miles east of Kalgoorlie and 15 miles south east of Kanowna, was active from about 1893 to 1908 with various deep leads and alluvial workings, which by 1900 […]

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Eliza Mincham – Sepia Saturday

27/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

 

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Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Bonnievale, Goldfields History, Western Australia

My Blog is three years old !!!

26/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

I can’t believe it is three years since my very first post. Now three years later and 277 posts on here we are. I must say that I absolutely love searching for new stories to tell and often, well most of the time actually, I end up writing about something compleatly different to what I […]

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