Thomas Cantwell Died of Thirst or Foul Play? The following item appeared in the local paper in Camblin, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, Ireland on the 24th Dec 1895: Perished between Norseman and Coolgardie Western Australia, supposed from thirst, Tom Cantwell (43 years), one of the best fellows who ever pulled off a shirt. Poor Tom was […]
Victor Watts – grave tales
“A Most Unusual Story” This is a strange story about one of the men who are listed on the Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial Memorial which is located at the WA Museum Kalgoorlie Boulder in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie. His name is Victor Watts. Several years ago I had a phone call from a homeowner to say […]
Wooroloo Sanatorium:
The Wooroloo Sanatorium Wooroloo Sanatorium, in the Darling Ranges of Western Australia, was established by the State Government in response to the infectious diseases, such as typhoid, diphtheria, and tuberculosis, that were widely prevalent in the aftermath of the mass migration that came as a result of the gold rushes in Western Australia in the […]
Isaac Goss – A Christian Man in Every Sense
Issac William Goss – Undertaker This is one of my favourite photographs. It is of the Goss family taken at their home in Piesse Street, Boulder in 1910. The family was well known for their undertaker’s business in Piesse Street, Boulder. Many of the headstones in our local cemeteries have their maker’s name on them. […]
The Bardoc Murder –
The grave of the victim of the unsolved Bardoc murder is on the bank of the creek leading down from Lindsay’s Soak, which is crossed by the road from the Dark Horse (mine) to the Bellvue (mine) about three miles east of Grants Patch. The fenced grave is on the North bank of the creek, […]
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