In the days of early Coolgardie it was often the case that when a disagreement occurred it was settled in the time honored way by bashing each other senseless. This was welcomed by the general population who were somewhat starved for entertainment. It also ensured your ‘disagreement’ was well and truly ‘settled’. Coolgardie drew to […]
Madame Eugene Vauthier – pioneer profile
CENTENARIAN DIES – Nurse in Franco-Prussian War – Thur 26th Dec 1935 Kalgoorlie Miner This photograph was taken a fortnight before Eugenie Vauthier broke her leg and entered hospital. It shows her with Jack Frost, an old prospector who regarded her as his mother and took care of her. The dog is Marshall, a great pal […]
The White Hart Hotel – Coolgardie
The White Hart Hotel was located in Hunt Street, between Sylvester and Lindsay Sts, Coolgardie. Licensees: George Murray Dewsnap – 1901-1902 Stephen Timewell – 1903-1905 Edward Walton -1907- 1909 Frank Martin – 1910 Martin Hyland – 1912 James Duffy – 1914 Hugh Dunstan – 1915 R R Reid – 1916-1917 The White Hart Hotel, erected […]
The Desert Secrets – by Jules Raeside
There’s a shaker up the gully, There’s a paddock partly stripped, And a shovel pick and dishes lying round And a little heap of tailings Lying underneath the sieves And a heap of hoppers stones upon the ground. But the hand that shook the shaker Never more will raise a ‘run’, O’er the ripples of […]
Mt Morgans Cemetery:
I would like to show you the result of a project by Danelle Warnock and myself to upgrade the records and information on the people buried in the Mt Morgans Cemetery, Western Australia. The information presented here has been collected from various sources such as Burial Registers, Death Certificates, and newspapers. As always we welcome […]
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