The ‘Dolly Pot’ column, which was started in the Western Mail newspaper between 1936 and 1942, was initiated by Cyril Longmore and later taken over by Malcolm Uren. The column started out to collect the reminiscences of the pioneer prospectors and was remarkably successful and popular. Dolly Pot remains the most significant source of information […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
The Hash House Riot of Ford Street
The Sun Kalgoorlie 27 April 1902, page 1 DINNER AT DALTONS by Pharisee. In the boom days of Coolgardie an enterprising individual named Dalton ran a hash and doss house in Ford Street. The building was made of bush timber covered in with hessian, and was divided into three compartments -a dining room, a kitchen, […]
Bobby Budgeree: The Bush Doctor of the Dreaming
Kalgoorlie Miner 13 January 1923, page 8 An Aboriginal Doctor Bobby Budgeree was the medicine man of the tribe, and thus one of the great men. To attain that position, he was tutored by the old men in the trying days of his initiation or man-making ceremonies and had to pass his medical examination according […]
The Body at the Bottom of the Omega Shaft
Kalgoorlie Miner Wednesday 31 August 1898, page 4 A Dead Man In A Mine Shaft Believed to be a Kanowna Resident A gruesome discovery was made at about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon by Mr H Colin. That gentleman was walking over the ground about three-quarters of a mile to the southwest of the southern end […]
Jealousy and Dynamite and Unrequited Love in Boulder
Kalgoorlie Western Argus 2 June 1903, page 16 The Dynamite Outrage at Boulder. Arrest of Mrs Elizabeth Charnley A sensational development took place at noon on Thursday in connection with the dynamite explosion at the residence of Mr James Ferguson, telegraph operator, of Boulder, when Detective Walsh, of Kalgoorlie, with Detective McLernon and plainclothes constable […]
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