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The Founding of the Coolgardie Miner –

01/07/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Founding of “The Coolgardie Miner” The Golden West Magazine Avon Argus and Cunderdin-Meckering-Tammin Mail 13 April 1935 W. E. CLARE tells the story of Coolgardies first Newspaper, its Vicissitude and Fortunes, those of the “Old Camp,” and the men of the” Roaring Nineties·. “It is indeed a far cast of my memory. Hardly a […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Mabel Hartrick – grave tales

01/07/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Mabel Hutchinson was born in Walhalla, Victoria in 1874. She was the daughter of William Hutchinson and Mary Ann nee Lapping. At the age of 24yrs, young Mabel Hutchinson travelled to the Western Australian town of Geraldton where she married Charles Francis Fade Hartrick in 1899. The following photograph shows Charles with his brother Harry […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Cemeteries, lennonville

When War Came to Kalgoorlie Boulder –

01/07/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

When War came to Kalgoorlie-Boulder by Doug Daws As time passes human memories dim and new generations lose connection to the difficulties experienced by the earlier generations. This is never more obvious than when we look back through the mists of time to the Second World War. Although we here in Kalgoorlie-Boulder were a long […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia, WW2

Double Murder Suicide – The Glass Family Tragedy

01/07/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Daily News, Perth – 20 February 1893  TERRIBLE TRAGEDY NEAR NORTHAMPTON. DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. A FATHER SHOOTS HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. THE TREVENSON TRAGEDY A terrible tragedy has just been reported from Trevenson, 20 miles from Northampton. Yesterday afternoon, at 3 pm, William Charles Glass, aged about fifty, a squatter and long resident in this […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales

The Pioneer Photographer – Roy Millar

24/06/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Im sure that you will agree that we owe a great debt to the early photographers that captured life on the Goldfields that no written version of events could possibly portray. Not only the family photographs of the people but a record of important events, public figures, building and even just the landscapes of this […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Leonora, Photographer, Western Australia

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