The SMITH’s – By Edwin Greenslade Murphy eg ‘Dryblower Murphy” We had many problems set us when Coolgardie was a camp When a journey to the Goldfields was meant a coach fare or a tramp We has water troubles, tucker ditto, also that of gold, how to clothe ourselves in summer, how to dress to […]
Horrific Accident at the St George Mine
MAN SWEPT ROUND SHAFTING AT THE ST GEORGE MINE. CONDITION CRITICAL On the 5 July 1908, Amadeo (Andrew) Thomas Sarte, 59 years of age, and employed in general work on the surface, met with a dreadful accident at the St. George mine on Thursday afternoon last. It appears that the unfortunate man was in the act of removing […]
Goldfields History Books – A Library Thing
You may have taken part in the survey I sent out to readers last year on whether or not you thought a ‘Book Finding’ facility for books on the people and the places of the Goldfields of Western Australia. Well I was overwhelmed at the number of responses I got, over 480 people said they […]
A Most Private Wedding
Western Argus 24th March 1903 Boulder The Marriage of Arthur Waldo Connelly to Mariona Way 1903 Boulder Western Australia A wedding that occasioned much interest in social circles took place on March 4 between Dr. Arthur Waldo Connelly, youngest son of the late Mr. T. J. Connelly. of Bendigo, Victoria, and Miss Marion Way, youngest daughter […]
A Church a Long Way From Home
I recently received a very unusual email as follows:- Gnowangerup has a bit of Boulder History in the form of a Church, Presbyterian/Methodist/Uniting. In 1922 this church was dismantled in Boulder, transported and re-erected here in Gnowangerup. About 2 years ago the Church was decommissioned and sold which included a large block of land, it is now […]
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