While I was recently away, I was deeply saddened and quite shocked to hear of the unexpected passing of Helen Astrand. Although we were not close friends, we had known each other for many years through our work on the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Cemetery Board and our shared passion for local history. Helen, a proud Boulder girl, […]
The Woman Behind the Headlines: The Story of Catherine May Davis
The photographs in this story were kindly supplied by Catherine and George’s Granddaughter, Jan Hale. This photo shows Catherine ‘Kate’ Davis in a nurse uniform outside her private hospital in either 1898 or 1899. The occasion was Jan’s mother Dorothy’s 4th or 5th birthday. She is the little dark-haired girl in the front row, 4th […]
Captain Kettle and the Toorak Hotel
Built in 1899. On June 25, 1903, a fire destroyed the whole of the front of the hotel. Situated on the 90 Mile Road, in the early days, this was the road out of Coolgardie on the North side. It closed some time in 1910. Coolgardie Miner – 3 July 1903, page 2 LETTER OF […]
The Forgotten Architect of the Goldfields –
The Man Behind Kalgoorlie’s Grandest Buildings Geoffrey Oswald Hawkins Geoffrey Oswald Hawkins (1870-1936) was born on 10 July 1870 at Sandhurst (the town regained the name Bendigo from 1891), Victoria. He was the third of twelve children born to Edward Jackson and Eliza Rebekah (nee Annear) Hawkins, who had married at Sandhurst in December 1866. […]
The Peak Hill Tragedy: The Heartbreaking Story of Catherine and Ethel Howard
While recently researching the lives of those buried in the Peak Hill Cemetery, I came across this very sad and tragic story. Catherine Francis ‘Kitty’ and George Howard had married in Warriminnie near Minginew, WA, in 1895 at the home of Catherine’s sister. Both George and Catherine were from Victoria. Up to the time of […]
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