Edjudina Western Australia AKA Peake’s Find 29° 46′ 58” South , 122° 29′ 32” East Edjudina Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in Western Australia. The station is approximately 130 kilometres to the south of Laverton and 240 kilometres north east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region. The Edjudina Goldfield […]
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
When they Drank Champagne out of Pint Pots –
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Sunday Times 2 May 1937, page 10 GLIMPSES of life in Coolgardie in those glamorous days when the “Old Camp” was a magnet to adventurous folk from far and wide, can be interestingly recalled by 89 year old Mrs Julie Kennedy, who resides in Stirling-street, Perth. Picture those of wealthy English families rubbing shoulders with […]
George and Jessie Cooper – pioneer profile
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George Astley and Jessie Cooper from Carol Townsend (Great Granddaughter). George Astley COOPER was born in 1865 at Duck Ponds, Victoria. In 1890 to Benjamin Edward and Sophia Elizabeth. He married Jessie HASTHORPE in Warragul, Victoria. Jessie was born in 1868 in Collingwood Victoria, the daughter of Jessie and Esther nee VARNEY. George and Jessie […]
Murty Broderick – he threw a seven
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Coolgardie Miner Saturday 23 June 1894, page 5 He Threw a Seven – by Smiler Hales He came to Coolgardie among the first army of gold seekers who invaded this State, intent on burgling nature’s treasure chest. He was only one of the gallant band of pioneers, who, leaving home and loved ones far behind them, […]
When Nights Were Nights –
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Western Mail 15 June 1939, page 11 When Nights Were Nights and Days Were Days. OVER THE PLATES – Dear Non-com To me, it has always seemed that the saddest of all things sad, is the tragedy of old age, and more particularly is this so when riches more needed in our shadowing eve have […]
