Where is Erlistoun??? Latitude 27″ 59′ 03″ S Longitude 122″ 20′ 25″ East Mt Margaret Goldfields. Located 71.5 km north of Laverton at Borodale Creek once known as Mistake Creek. Erlistoun, usually referred to as ‘The Erlistoun’ was never gazetted as a townsite under the Lands Act, but was surveyed as a Business and Residential […]
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
No News Today
08/03/2025 By 23 Comments
My apologies to everyone but there will be no newsletter this week. I have just had an operation and didn’t think it would knock me around as much as it had. I will be back on board next week as usual.
Jack Tulloch – a tragic fatality at Lake Way
01/03/2025 By 3 Comments
Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgoo Goldfields Chronicle 22 January 1897, page 9 A TRAGIC FATALITY AT LAKE WAY The sad news is just to hand from Lake Way that Jack Tulloch, the well-known and respected partner in Tulloch Willis and Co’s butchery business at Cue, Day Dawn and Leonora, has perished near Lake Way […]
Sir Samuel Cemetery – ”are we remembered not?”
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Sir Samuel / Mt Sir Samuel Cemetery Yakabindi Station East of Bellevue Mine Camp. 27°36’90”S – 120°32’65”E 31 known burials – Reserve 6405 Tis sad to see these friendless graves And think of those who lie therein Their mute appeal some tribute craves For love which in the past had been. AKBAR Meer AKA Mullang […]
Turrell and Kay Mining Contractors –
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Between 1895 and 1901 the partnership of Turrell & Kay and Co was responsible for a great many mine buildings and plant construction all around the Goldfields. They employed up to 50 men at any time and the following images are just a few of their many projects. William Wakeford TURRELL was born on the […]
