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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

Family History Discovery Days:

09/07/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

To celebrate Family History Month in August, the Latter Day Saints Church will be holding a discovery event from 9th to the 11th August at the church at 118 Egan Street, Kalgoorlie.  

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Goldfields History

Matthew Jackson – Boulder pioneer

09/07/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Matthew Jackson, a merchant of Boulder, was born in Alston, Cumberland, England on the 25 November 1865 and is a son of Mr. Joseph Jackson of the same place. The latter gentleman was one of the early prospectors of Victoria in 1860 and was the first to erect a puddling machine in the gold mining […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

The Worker – a verse

08/07/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Worker The oilrag is the labour toff, he holds the miners dirt, The trucker would not dare to touch a miners dirty shirt, The if the mullocker presumes, the truckers gets annoyed, And all persons a lofty scorn for Boulder’s unemployed. Supposing, lads, we sling this pride and try another plan, And institute a […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner

The Railway Picnic – Bulla Bulling

07/07/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

  Westralian Worker (Perth, WA : 1900 – 1951), Friday 11 September 1903, page 1 RAILWAY EMPLOYEES ANNUAL  PICNIC. The rendezvous for the above this year was Bulla Bulling, the historic place from which the navvies used to come. At Kalgoorlie a start was made with 12 carriages, loaded down to Plimsoll mark, and to […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Bulla Bulling, Goldfields History, Rail, Western Australia

Burbanks : Methodist Marriages:-

05/07/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Because of Burbank’s close proximity to Coolgardie, many of the weddings of the local people took place there. The ones which took place at Burbanks were conducted mainly in people’s homes despite there being a Methodist Church in the town. The first wedding in the church was that of Henry Jones and Jane Letitia Howe […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Burbanks, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, wedding

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