The Ghost Town:- by Jules Reside AKA Cork Tree Flat Tuckanarra:- Latitude 27° 07′ S Longitude 118° 05′ E “Deserted now, no more your stirred by those in quest of gold. Now you’re but a memory blurred of what you were of old. Yet, though the camp in silence sleeps, Except for songs of […]
The Tragic Death of Mollie Smith
On the 3rd July 1924, a young teacher aged 18 years, Mary ‘Mollie’ Smith, was tragically burned to death in front of her class of young children. It must have been horrific for the children present. She is buried in the Boulder Cemetery. MARY ‘MOLLIE’ FINDLATER SMITH Mollie Findlater SMITH was born in 1905 in […]
The Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial
Since the launch of the WAVMM last year I have often been asked why I have decided to include miners from the whole of Western Australia instead of just the Goldfields. I thought this might explain why. The following graph from the 1934 Department of Mines (Now the Dept of Mineral and Energy), shows the […]
The Italian Miner
If you attened recent the talk by Dr Criena Fitzgerald at the WA Museum Kagoorlie-Boulder on the 18th November you would be interested to read the following verse from the Murchison Advocate in 1902. This pre dates the period that was covered in the talk, WW1, but it shows how the seeds of unrest and […]
Alexander Pitman – The Man Behind the Legend!
I am sure that most people who are interested in the history of the Goldfields of Western Australia will have heard the story of the two gold stealing officers were cruelly murdered and their bodies dismembered and thrown down a mine shaft just outside of town at Millers Find. A great deal has been written […]
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