The Mickle family has established a dynasty of Hairdressers (Tonsorial Artists) and tobacconists in Western Australia. Starting in the Murchison and Northern Goldfields of WA, the four brothers and a nephew had premises in Menzies, Mt Magnet, Kookynie, Laverton and Wiluna, and Meekatharra. They would also open a business in Narrogin in later years. The […]
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
Coles’s Find – a fair prospect
28/01/2023 By 5 Comments
Sunday Times 6 June 1920, page 1 Cole’s Find Near Wiluna How a Returned Soldier Discovered a Goldfield by Horace Stirling George Cole, the discoverer of Cole’s Find, 11 miles south of Wiluna, is a scion of a family of 15, four of whom first saw the light within an interval of eleven months. His […]
Leslie Frederick Carter – grave tales
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This week with ‘grave tales’ we are doing it the other way around. With someone being born in the Goldfields but dying elsewhere. On the 21st of February 1899, this finely dressed young man was born in Paddington Western Australia. Paddington was in the Broad Arrow Goldfield 27kms north of Kalgoorlie along the main road […]
The Kalgoorlie Dog and Poultry Society
21/01/2023 By Leave a Comment
In the late 1890s and early 1900 there were many social clubs in the Goldfields of Western Australia. Sporting and church groups were popular but there were many others with something to suit everyone. One of the more unusual groups was the ‘Dog and Poultry Society’. This may seem an odd combination with dogs and […]
The Coolgardie Chambers – a family story
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The Coolgardie Chambers was one of the first ‘Chamber’ buildings in Bayley Street, Coolgardie. I was recently sent these two amazing photographs by Julie Marshall who has allowed me to share them with you. Thank you Julie. Julie tells me, her Great Grandfather is Edward Charles Sharland or ‘Ned’. He is identified in the above […]
