One of the many impressive memorials in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery is of the grave of James and Amelia SAUNDERS. Grave 5262 in the Anglican section. This is part of their story. James Archibald SAUNDERS was born Malmsbury, Victoria 29 June 1873 to James and Catherine (nee Williams) Saunders. He married Amelia Elizabeth FLEXMORE in Boulder, […]
Darlot Remembers 100 years –
Former residents of the abandoned townsite of Darlot, 130kms north of Leonora, returned to celebrates the towns centenary in December of 1994. Darlot gold mine manager, David Hatch, said that the earliest known Darlot Mining tenement was registered on December 3 1894. This is the date to mark the towns centenary. Plutonic Resources, which runs […]
Too Late to Say Goodbye – grave tales
Fri 17th Jul 1942 Kalgoorlie Miner BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED On Warburton Ranges Track – LAVERTON AMBULANCE LONG TRIP About noon yesterday the Laverton ambulance commenced a 200 miles trip each way along Warburton Ranges to attend a boy seriously injured when run over by a tractor trailer. The boy is John Wade, a 13 year old […]
Bulong’s Battery, boom to bust – by David Whiteford
The following article is re produced with the kind permission of the author David Whiteford and the Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc . The article first appeared in the publication, ‘Light Railways’ April 2010. Contemporary map, showing the route of the tramway as surveyed. To aid legibility, the route has been overlaid in […]
The Back Country Honors its Dead
Sunday Times – Sunday 29 September 1912, page 11 THE GRAVE OF A PIONEER Walter B (S) Williams – the Prospector of Mt Ida Wandering about the goldfields of this State, away from the beaten paths, it may be, one sometimes unexpectedly happens across a lonely grave. Sometimes, but very rarely, it’s merely a mound […]
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