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A Vet in the House !!!!

11/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

We have yet another identified Kalgoorlie House. This is the residence of Austen Harry Bradley Veterinary Surgeon, 5 Brookman Street, Kalgoorlie. Sadly the house on this block today , although old, is not the original building in the photograph. Mr Bradley had an area at the rear of the building where he was able to […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Great Beer Strike of 1903 – Victory !!!!

11/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

BEER STRIKE AT MT MORGANS VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS Kalgoorlie Western Argus: 14 July 1903.  –  A correspondent, telegraphing under yesterday’s date from Mt. Morgans, states :A fierce and decisive battle has been fought in this town, the contest lasting exactly 48 hours. The miners, led by Captain Frampton, held a meeting on Friday night […]

Filed Under: Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Beer, Goldfields History, Mt Morgans, Western Australia

Death of a Bushman – a verse

11/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

We have another excellent poem by Ray Jackson – This is what he tells me about it- In 1897 both of my Great Grandfathers on my Mothers side,  brought their families to Kalgoorlie to live. George Nankiville came from Berrima in NSW with his wife Sarah and my Grandmother Myra and her brothers. Andrew Bruce came […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Western Australia

Little Teddy Murray – grave tales

11/07/2020 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

If you visit the Kanowna Cemetery on the Yarri Rd just out of Kalgoorlie, (12 kms on the right from the turn off to the local tip) one of the first graves that you will see when you enter the gate is that of a little boy called ‘Teddy’. Over the years when I have […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kanowna

A Faithful Wife, True and Kind-

04/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently sent this photograph of H Cramer and Co, Saddle, Collar and Harness Maker. To find out a bit more about the business I started to search. A sad tale indeed unfolded. In Kalgoorlie in 1901, a young couple married, Margaret Theresa Angus and Henry Timothy Cramer.  Henry was born in 1871 in […]

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

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