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

Honour Roll Unveiled – Ora Banda

11/02/2017 By Moya Sharp 12 Comments

Ora Banda sent more men to the First World War than any other town of its size in Western Australia. Of the 100 men who enlisted 35 were to make the ultimate sacrifice. – From the Kalgoorlie Miner 21 October 1920, page 6 HONOUR ROLL UNVEILED. Ora Banda, Oct 18th 1920. On Sunday afternoon […]

Hotels of the Goldfields – Cue

10/02/2017 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

The town of Cue was gazetted as a townsite in August 1893. It is named after Tom Cue, one of those who discovered gold there in 1892. If you would like to know more about Cue visit the OFH page at:- http://bit.ly/2lqK6SA In its heyday it boasted ten hotels:- The Murchison Club Hotel, Daly’s The Miners Arms […]

A Case of Mistaken Identity –

04/02/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

While recently doing my daily post on the WAVMM ‘The Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial’ I found that it was the anniversary of a disaster that caused the death of three men at the Englishman GM in Kookynie on the 3rd February 1900. The names of the victims were:- BOURKE John, Miner 3/02/1900 Age 35 […]

NANNINE – ghost town

02/02/2017 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

The townsite of Nannine is located in the Murchison Goldfields region, 735 km north east of Perth and 30 km south south west of Meekatharra. Gold was discovered in the Nannine area in 1890, the area being rich with gold, and by 1891 was the site of feverish activity. In 1892 John Forrest, the Commissioner […]

Sanitary Carter’s Tragic End

22/01/2017 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Kalgoorlie Western Argus Tuesday 11 March 1902. A carter named Charles Noell, an employee of Mr O Sloss, met with a terrible death, yesterday morning through being jolted off his cart on the road to the Boulder sanitary depot. When last seen alive by two fellow carters, about 4 o’clock, the deceased had almost finished […]