Coolgardie Miner 6 February 1911, page 3 DEATH OF ANDREW BARR AN IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL Few men in Coolgardie were better known and respected than Andrew Barr, and when the news was circulated early on Saturday that he had gone to his rest, many a kindly word of good feeling was uttered. We all knew him […]
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
A New Town Hall for Southern Cross –
Western Mail – Perth 24 December 1936, page 16 THE PROSPERITY OF SOUTHERN CROSS THE NEW TOWN HALL OPENED SOUTHERN CROSS was in a gala mood last Wednesday. The cause of many arrangements, official and festive, was the opening of a new ornament to the district’s civic architecture, an imposing Town Hall surmounted by a […]
The Widow Who Sued – a breach of promise
Sun Sunday 21 June 1908, page 9 THE WIDOW WHO SUED! THEN, BREACH O’ PROMISE SUITED THE MAN. An Ex Kalgoorlie Barmaid the Plaintiff (Margaret Augusta Elizabeth BRIDGELAND) and an Ex -Publican of Boulder Block the Defendant (‘Rorty’ Harry RODER) The Bridgeland- Roder breach of promise for £1,000 action was heard and concluded before Judge […]
Eh! but she was a good girl – grave tales
It is a far cry from Coolgardie to Corbie in the Somme Valley in France. Still, in 1916, a Salvation Army Chaplin, Benjamin Orames, who as a boy had been on the Goldfields of Coolgardie, found himself in Corbie seeking the town mayor who he located in a dugout. While shells blasted the historic building […]
St Ives Cemetery – grave tales
St Ives AKA Ives Find Cemetery (no headstones) Reserve 18492 (Cancelled in 1991) on the Gold Fields St Ives Mine Site (not accessible without permission from mine) DOUGLAS William – d about 12 Aug 1933, 69 yrs, a half a mile west of St Ives Hotel, Occ: Prospector, Cause: Natural Causes, Son of John and […]
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