Sunday Times, 23 August 1936, page 20 Drove Coach For Cobb & Co Thousands of Miles Through the Outback by Coach F. A. CREWS LOOKS BACK ON PIONEERING DAYS – A link with coaching days of sixty years ago is provided by Mr Frederick Albert Crews, of Outram Street, West Perth, who has crowded varied […]
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
Blood Red Days in the Golden West
The Truth – Qld -10 January 1926, page 12 Like every other gold rush in history, the outbreak of yellow-gold fever in Western Australia attracted many of the best, and a number of the worst, humans from far and wide. But it was not until the terrible hardships of the pioneers were known to have […]
The Coolgardie Explosion Horror
West Australian, 9 February 1925 A COOLGARDIE HORROR Ammonia Cylinder of Death Three People Killed DISTRESSING SCENES – The most distressing tragedy ever known in Coolgardie occurred in the early hours of this morning, as the outcome of a destructive fire at Messrs Mulligan and Kemp’s butcher’s shop, in Bayley Street, Coolgardie. The alarm was […]
Bread Upon the Waters
Western Mail Perth 1 August 1940, page 9 Bread Upon the Waters In the early days of the Golden Mile, Davy Jones was working on a mine and according to custom, he bought a block of land in preparation for the time when he and Mifanwy could marry. A little house was built, and as […]
The Gallant Mrs Taylor – a woman in a mans game
From The Sunday Times -Perth, Sunday 9 June 1940 Mining for gold is usually looked upon as a mans game in which muscle and endurance are needed to wrest the gold-bearing stone from the earth and to keep the machinery moving. It calls for grit, a brave heart and the ability to withstand all the […]
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