After living in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for many years, and talking to lots of people about what they did as youngsters and what games they played. I was told, that although playing on the slime dumps and near mine shafts was ‘strictly forbidden’ just about everyone did it. If their parents had know what they got up […]
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
Where is Gum Creek ?
12/11/2022 By Leave a Comment
While researching details on the burial of a mining death for the Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial, I came across the cemetery of Gum Creek. This was a new name for me so I looked into it further, I was also able to add another name to my collection of hotel names. The Book ‘West […]
Adam Glover Brown – a family story
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I was recently contact by Geoff Edwards, who was planning a trip to Kalgoorlie to look into his family history. His relative, Adam Glover Brown, was a member of a Masonic Lodge. Geoff was fortunate to be able to attend a talk by Doug Daws on the history of Freemasonry at the Eastern Goldfields Historical […]
Memories of Coolgardie and Wooroloo
05/11/2022 By Leave a Comment
I was recently contacted by Helena Britt who vary kindly shared with me a copy of a section of her mothes memoirs. Her grandfather, Dr Robert Mitchell, was the first Chief Medical Officer at Coolgardie Hospital and the first Superintendent of Wooroloo Sanitorium, he was in this post until his retirement in 1941. Helena’s mother […]
Current Cue Cemetery – beyond the white gate
05/11/2022 By 5 Comments
As promised (albeit two weeks late!) the following is the end result of a research project bravely taken on in the last 18 months by John Pritchard whose help I find invaluable. He took the ‘basic’ cemetery record for the Cue Cemetery which consisted mostly of a name, date & denomination and he has made […]
