Extracts from: Sand & Stone – Moran Family History By Kevin Moran “Fatal Accident at the Bohemia’ Friday the 10th January 1936 was bringing to an end the full workday week. The miners only worked a half day on Saturdays. The week had been hot and overcast with the threat of rain. The folk […]
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
My Dear Annie – Missingham Letters 6
The following letter is by far the longest written by David to Annie. I think it sounds like he is missing her and the children a great deal. I think that maybe Annie is getting a little tired of having the plans for her to join him taking rather too long. In this letter he […]
Goldfields Without Chrysanthemums – by Catherine Bond
In the late 1800s and early 1900’s it was popular for travellers to keep a travel diary to record the day-to-day happenings of the places and things they did on their journeys. It does seem to have been more popular with women, and many diaries have gone on to be published. This gives us a […]
Then and Now – The Peoples Church
This church has changed very little over the years. The top photograph is when it was originally The New Congregational Church (date not known but approximately 1908), it later became the Wesleyan Church of St Pauls and the recent photograph, taken in 2006, is as it is today. It is now The Peoples […]
Push Ball – A most unusual sport!
The winners of the first Push Ball competition in Coolgardie on 12 July 1905. Back Row: W Sowerby – P Kiely – E Millane – D M Strickland – F P Strickland – M Noonan – C H Field Middle Row: C C Monaghan – H C Pearson – C P Bloom (Capt) – J […]
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