Brandon’s Fate A TALE OF DARLOT by Pharisee. The eager, excited crowd that thronged the long dry stage to the Darlot diggings in the first blush of the new discovery included Dick Brandon and his mate, Jimmy Spiggot. That dreary and waterless track skirting the edge of desolate Lake Barlee presented a motley appearance as […]
Murder Suicide at Kalgoorlie – grave tales
Truth 28 December 1912, page 3 Double Tragedy at Kalgoorlie. “She Smiled, said “Hello, Curly” and Died” In our last issue appeared a brief account of the terrible double tragedy, which happened at Kalgoorlie on the previous Thursday, in the yard at the back of the Broken Hill Hotel, in Hannan street, when […]
An Inland Forestry Family –
a perspective from the Goldfields by Fiona Kealley I didn’t choose to become a “Woman in Forestry”. I just happened to meet and marry a forester, and he has shared his passion for forestry with me since the day we met. I fell into the role of “forester’s wife” and it took me on a […]
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. They moved to Coolgardie where Henry […]
The Money or the Wife ??? –
Kalgoorlie Western Argus 23 October 1900, page 25 MATRIMONIAL MISFITS : A lady, who after 17 years of connubial bliss, took it into her head to elope with a jockey, was charged with larceny of £70 from her lawful husband. The latter, it appears, was reconciled perfectly to the loss of his better half, but, […]
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