Peter Dennis Kavanagh joined the Police Force when he was twenty-one. How he crushed the gold-stealing industry on the Golden Mile has now gone down in history. He was tutored by that wonderfully astute Excise Inspector – John Mitchell Christie. He was a born detective, keen and shrewd, with boundless energy. He was also a […]
Arthur Postle – The Crimson Flash
ARTHUR POSTLE – WORLD CHAMPION ATHLETE “THE CRIMSON FLASH” Born in 1881 at Springside near Pittsworth in Queensland, Arthur Postle was revered around the globe in the years before World War I as the fastest man alive. He turned professional in 1902 and on 5 December 1906 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, he set a world […]
George GAYFORD, Prospector – grave tales
This is a photograph of George Gayford, a prospector, taken about 1935 in Wilina. He died the same year as this photo was taken. He is buried in the Wiluna Cemetery. I have always thought this image captures the hard life of the prospector in the early days. How tough must he have been to […]
YUNNDAGA – ghost town
YUNNDAGA AKA WOOLGAR Latitude 29° 45′ S Longitude 121° 03′ E Yunndaga is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 718 km east north east of Perth and 7 km south of Menzies. Gold was discovered in the area in the mid-1890s, and in 1898, a business and residence subdivision was laid out at what was then […]
Horace LAMBLEY – A Forgotten Victim of War
HORACE LAMBLEY: – It is not known why Horace Lambley came to Kalgoorlie and was buried here in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, alone, and a long way from his family. His life after the war was a sad one and is a testament to possible mental problems arising from his service, as was the case for […]
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