I hope that you have had a good week! It’s been quite an exciting time in Kalgoorlie Boulder with the cast and crew from the new ‘Mystery Road’ series being filmed here. For those of you who haven’t watched it yet, and who love the real outback of Australia, you will love it. Here is […]
A Very Pretty Wedding
The Wedding of James Faul and Annie Nutman The wedding of the daughter of the North Kalgurli mine, Annie Nutman, was celebrated in style. This photograph shows the wedding party at the home of the bride’s parents and it looks like no expense was spared. The church where the wedding took place was St Michael […]
Arthur King or Theo Herchler – grave tales
Arthur KING – real name Theodore HERCHLER Born in Germany in September 1859. As a young man Arthur was a student of the Conservatoire of Music where he graduated with honours. He then started working with Gilbert and Sullivan, Doyle Carte in England as a repetiteur or rehearsal pianist. On the 22nd October 1890, he […]
Oldest Bike Store in Australia
Kalgoorlie Miner, Tuesday 24 December 1901, page 6 ARMSTRONG’S CYCLE AGENCY. The growth of the business of Armstrong’s Cycle Agency ever since its inception has been astonishing, and it would probably be a very difficult matter to find a parallel case. The firm, which is the oldest in this line of business on the goldfields, […]
Fanny Hannah Hunt – pioneer profile
GOLD- that commodity was so powerful, but as a child, I played with it as a toy. It was a glass phial of specks and small nuggets in liquid and tightly corked. I remember shaking it and watching the dull yellow stuff glint in the light. I must have loved it as no accident ever […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 187
- 188
- 189
- 190
- 191
- …
- 442
- Next Page »