Weekly Times (Melbourne VIC) – 10 September 1898, page 48 Frank Ernest Randell & Co. Messrs F E. Randell and Co. are well known on the West Australian goldfields as carrying and forwarding agents. Their head office is at Fremantle, having lately been transferred to that rising port, from the goldfields, and there are branches […]
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
The Gold Seekers of Central Australia –
Sunday Times 16 August 1931, page 1 Gold Seekers of Central Australia Government Geologist Blatchford Accompanies Expedition- Sydney Syndicate’s Efforts to Locate Rich Reef Documents Left by Dead Prospector Gold! What a magic spell the word casts over most people, and what a magnet the elusive metal is to tens of thousands of adventurous souls! […]
Yellowdine – a walk through a canvas town (Part 1)
Sadly, we recently heard of the burning down of the Yellowdine Roadhouse. I thought that a story about the town of Yellowdine would be of interest. West Australian 16 April 1935, page 23 YELLOWDINE A Walk Through Canvas Town. A Canvas town beside a hill of gold . . . that is Palmer’s Find, which, […]
Memories of Coolgardie and Wooroloo
I was recently contacted by Helena Britt who very kindly shared with me a copy of a section of her mother’s 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 […]
The Byrne Family – pioneers
I have been sent this wonderful story of the Byrne family in the Western Australia Goldfields. They were to have an amazing fourteen children all apart from three, survived to adulthood. The family history has been extensively researched and I have kindly been given permission to share this extract with you. What an amazing woman […]
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