Fields Find Cemetery – Coordinates: -29.03668, 117.25572 On mining reserve No 14350 12 known burials Fields Find Cemetery Sign – Photo by Doug Hardman In a thicket of acacias on the low side of the present Yalgoo Road, hidden from passing motorists, lies the Fields Find Cemetery. It is a good 1 ½ km by car from […]
Paddy Hannan’s Statue –
Paddy Hannans Statue Early in 1928, The Sun newspaper in Kalgoorlie directed the attention of the residents of Kalgoorlie that although a plaque and a tree existed to make the first place where gold was found in Kalgoorlie no permanent memorial to the man who found it, Paddy Hannan, existed. The article suggested that a […]
Five Marriages and a Murder Trial –
The following story has many twists and turns and has been difficult to trace in a timeline with various marriages and children born. If anyone has any further details to add I would love to hear from you so that the story is told correctly. Daily News Perth 7 March 1936, page 1 Sensational Disclosures […]
Mrs Walshaw of Comet Vale
Mrs Walshaw of Comet Vale Story and photos by Bernie Morris First Published in ‘The Westland’ 2005 For a few months in the year 1895, the terminus of the new railway thrusting east from Southern Cross to the twin Eldorado’s of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie stood at Boorabbin with strings of half-piled wagons, sullen afghans cruising […]
Home Made Adventures by Stan Gratte
Stan Gratte (OAM) has just released a book called “Homemade Adventures – My Expeditions, In the West Australian Bush and Desert”. Extracted from the foreword: I’ve been asked many times by family, friends and people who travel our outback, to write about my expeditions, particularly in the desert. I kept a diary or field notebook, […]
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