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The Eastern Goldfields is made up of hundred towns both big and small. Outback Family History would like to bring you a collection of stories about some of these abandoned towns which you may never have heard of. Some may only have been there for a few years and now very little remains of the small thriving communities.

Fields Find Cemetery on the Old Yalgoo Road

14/10/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: Books, Grave Tales, People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Fields Find, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yalgoo

Five Marriages and a Murder Trial –

14/10/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Towns and Places Tagged With: murder, Western Australia, Yalgoo

Mrs Walshaw of Comet Vale

14/10/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Comet Vale, Western Australia

The Tattersalls Club Affair –

07/10/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was sent this story by Kevin Matthees, who is the great-grandson of Leonard Charles Jackson. Jackson was the proprietor of the Bright Spot Tea Rooms, in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie in November of 1946. This was one of a chain of similar tearooms throughout WA. Do you think he was innocent? This was a case […]

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A History of ‘The Round’ by Darren McAullay

07/10/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Round By Darren McAullay It is, without doubt, one of the biggest, most colourful, and successful racing carnivals to be staged anywhere in Australia. It is steeped in history, has been the scene of some of the most incredible events both on and off the track and for many, it has etched memories that […]

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Filed Under: Books, People, Places, Sport, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Horse Racing, Kalgoorlie boulder, sport, Western Australia

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