The old timer was sitting among the pots and pans in orderly array outside his little camp, he was skewering a startling blue patch to a pair of trousers. ‘Can I do it for you?” asked the young lady visitor with a smile. He regarded her solemnly over his spectacles, then, ‘Thank ye kindly,” he […]
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
Lina FURIA – people profile
Lina Furia (1891 – 1970) Born 4 November 1891 – Grosotto, Tirano, Valtellina Died 1970 Coolgardie, Western Australia – buried Boulder Cemetery. Occupation – Hotel owner Alternative Names – Osmetti, Lina – Robustellini, Lina Summary Lina Furia owned and ran the Cornwall Hotel in Boulder with her husband Charlie Furia and her son […]
The Picnic – tragedy in the great drought
The day dawned still and sure, as the first day might have dawned. No wind whispered across the white dust. This was a day like any other. But she knew it was not! By Frannie HOPKIRK The woman had slept fitfully through the hot night. Her slumber the shallow sad unrest of one tormented by life, […]
Time Lapse – then and now
Kalgoorlie Cemetery gates, first photo taken today and the second c 1950, which do you prefer???
“The Steward and his wife” – a family story
The photographs in this story were kindly supplied by Catherine and George’s Granddaughter, Jan Hale. This photo shows 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 from […]
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