What a wonderful photo of a young boy and his best friend!
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
Isaac Goss – A Christian Man in Every Sense – Grave tales
15/03/2014 By 1 Comment
Issac William Goss Undertaker This is one of my favourite photographs. It is of the Goss family taken at their home in Piesse Street, Boulder in 1910. The family was well known for their Undertakers business in Piesse Street, Boulder. Many of the headstones in our local cemeteries have their maker’s name on them. This […]
Kunanalling – Ghost Town
11/02/2014 By 2 Comments
Kunanalling – Ghost Town Latitude 30 141’ S Longitude 121 04’ E Now an abandoned townsite, Kunanalling is located in what is now the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia 25 “miles” (32 Kms) from Coolgardie on the road that traversed the western side of Mt Burges. Gold was discovered here in 1892 and it was known […]
Miners Memorial
28/11/2013 By Leave a Comment
Some of you may know of the Miners Memorial which has been in the pipeline for nearly a decade now. I am proud to say that the completion is now in sight. Finally the many people who have lost their lives in the quest for gold are now to be honoured and recognised with a […]
