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 […]
Little Teddy Murray – grave tales
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 […]
A Faithful Wife, True and Kind-
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 […]
Simply Mavis – by Margaret Hamilton
Book Review: – This book is a biography written by a 90 year old nurse/midwife who was one of a family of eighteen children born on the Murchison Goldfields just after the turn of the century (early 1900’s). From humble beginnings Mavis succeeds in fulfilling her training at Royal Perth Hospital and was to become […]
Aviation Pioneers of the Outback of WA part 2
Aviation Pioneers of the Outback of WA : PART 2 – By John Pritchard MacRoberston Miller Aviation Co in WA The origins of this airline were formed by Mr Horrie Miller in Victoria in 1920 whilst conducting general aviation services using a variety of aircraft types. In 1928, he commenced his first airline service between […]
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