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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

William Thomas Maddern – Goldfields Hero

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A Goldfield’s Soldier of the Great War –    Lance Corporal William Thomas Maddern, MM  William Thomas MADDERN was born at Woods Point, Victoria in 1889, the son of William Henry and Isabella (nee Shade) Maddern.  At the outbreak of WW1 he was newly married to Evelyn Ann (Crouch) Maddern, they had a young daughter […]

United British Women’s Emigration Scheme

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The United British Women’s Emigration Association publishes the following:- from the West Australian 24 March 1894, page 4 ” Ten Reasons why Women should go to Western Australia ” (1) It is the only country to which the whole passage-money is offered free. It cost £17 17s. to go there, paying one’s own passage. It only costs the free passengers £1 for ship […]

What is a Tributer ???

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The tribute method of mining has been used through out the world. Tributers generally work in gangs, and had a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive a certain portion of the ore, or so much per pound, as […]

Albany Bell – The Confectionery King

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Many Kalgoorlie locals  will recognise the building in the photograph below as Tippetts Tea Room at 100 Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie (now the House of Babes). However, before being named Tippetts it was called the Albany Bells Tea Rooms. I had thought this name may have come about from someone possibly from Albany but when I […]