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

Picture Perfect – T F MacKay Studios

11/04/2018 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

This is the first in a series of profiles on Goldfields Photographers. Some, like the T F MacKay Studios, ran a successful commercial ventures, mainly catering for portraiture photography. Others were travellers who went around to the outlying areas taking pictures of both people and places. In 1917, Joseph J Dwyer sold his studio to […]

The First Coolgardie Marriages

08/04/2018 By Moya Sharp 11 Comments

Many years ago I was fortunate to be given access to the first marriage records for Coolgardie from July 1894 to Aug 1898. These marriages are not only a record of two people joining in matrimony but it also show the broad number of the different nationalities and occupations of these first pioneers. I have […]

Kurrawang-Coolgardie United Football Club 1923

04/04/2018 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Kurrawang-Coolgardie United Football Club Season-1923 Back Row:- J Tovey, J Crudace, W Reid, J Moran, A Dunlop, G Rinaldi Third Row:- G Hilliert, J Clementson, D Maguire (Sec), E Cullen, M Maguire Second Row:-S Thompson, W Mulligan, J Rinaldi (President), D Brown (Capt), H Larcombe (Vice-Capt), E Scahill, J Ryan. Front Row:- G Hoyer, T […]

Cricket isn’t life or death. It’s much more important!

03/04/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

BAYLEY’S CRICKET CLUB Premiers 1938-1939 Coolgardie Cricket Association Back Row:- L to R = L WILSON, J MacFARLANE, W CATTENACK, M NIVEN (Capt), D Matthews, L NORRISH, W SIMPSON, Front Row:– J MORALEE, F HOLT, J McKENZIE, R DOWNEY, John Ronald PAUL (with hat)

The Caldwell Brothers – a soldiers story

01/04/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The following biographies have been researched by – Dave Spain 3638 PTE James Caldwell was born in Kanowna on or about January 1896. He enlisted in Perth, Western Australia, on the 23rd of March 1917. His Father was James Jonas Caldwell and his Mother was Charlotte Caldwell nee Gardner. They resided at 68 Padbury St, […]