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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

Goldfields Heroes – The Dease Collection 1

01/09/2016 By Moya Sharp 6 Comments

George Brabner

‘Kalgoorlie Boys’ The following photograph are from the “The Soldiers of Barrack Street” collection and are  the work of famed West Australian photographer Denis Dease who operated the Dease studio at 117 Barrack Street from 1898 to 1929. Dease was a prolific photographer of great importance.These photographs are all men with connections to Kalgoorlie. The full […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Soldiers, Western Australia, WW1

The Rose Garden Memorial – KRH

28/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Cyril Joseph Della Bosca

Kalgoorlie regional Hospital, St Albans Road, Kalgoorlie Western Australia,  ‘Lat: -30.741389  Long: 121.471111’ (Photographs by Sandy Duncan) Many Readers may be unaware that we have a WW2 memorial at the Rose Garden at the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital at the St Albans Road Entrance. The memorial is in the form of an individual plaque for a […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, War, Western Australia

BULONG – or the I.O.U

27/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Bulong Post Office

  Excerpts from an interesting account of the early days of Bulong which appeared  in the Kalgoorlie Miner newspaper Monday 16th June 1952 Bulong, situated about 20 miles east of Kalgoorlie and 15 miles south east of Kanowna, was active from about 1893 to 1908 with various deep leads and alluvial workings, which by 1900 […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Bulong, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Eliza Mincham – Sepia Saturday

27/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

 

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Bonnievale, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Tommy King and ‘The Miners Dream’

22/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The Southern Cross Times 9th May 1914  –     THE MINERS DREAM The old identities expressed deep and sincere regret yesterday when  word came into town that old Tommy King had been killed at Parker’s Range, for Tommy was one of the pioneers of 1887 and 1888. For over 28 years the deceased maintained that he had a rich gold find […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Southern Cross, Tommy King, Western Australia

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