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They Wished Upon a Star – book review

24/02/2017 By Moya Sharp 6 Comments

Typical Mining Camp

They wished upon a star : a history of Southern Cross and Yilgarn  by P.T. McMahon. Did you know that ‘MIRRABOOKA’ is the aboriginal word for Southern Cross??? YILGARNIA On that ancient sea bed of Yilgarnia, one of the oldest land surfaces in the world. Yilgarnia, timeless and mysterious, a land of such antiquity, that […]

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South Kalgoorlie -How it came to be

24/02/2017 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

Many Hands Make Light Work

Western Mail 26th Dec 1946 Ex-servicemen have banded together for a building project at Kalgoorlie The Housing Problem   –    Enterprise on the Goldfields        by K, Douglas DUE to the initiative and willingness of a band of ex servicemen, a model community centre is well under way to being completed at […]

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Filed Under: Rolls of Honor Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, South Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

The Moorine Rock Hotel

23/02/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Moorine Rock Hotel in the 1930's with truck outside.

While heading to Perth you will have to have driven past the Moorine Rock Hotel, you may have even stopped there for refreshment. Recently, courtesy of OFH reader Peter Green, I have been lucky enough to be given permission to post the following photographs of Moorine Rock and the hotel. With kind permission from Kath […]

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No Bull and the Brady Murder !!!

21/02/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

This building will be instantly recognised by many located at 14 Wilson Street, Kalgoorlie. Today it is an excellent Italian restaurant called Orecchiette’s. However if you compare the two photographs you will see something missing. ie The Bulls head over the main door !!!! I have tried to find out what happened to it but […]

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The Buck Brothers – Goldfields Heros

20/02/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Grave of John and Frederick BUCK, Kalgoorlie Cemetery

The following is a brief story about two of our Tunnelling Heros from the Goldfields – Courtesy of John Reading of the Tunnllers.Org NOTE: Although all the brothers returned from Australia all died young the oldest being John at age 44yrs.  Do you have a tunneller in your family? You can search the nominal roll […]

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Filed Under: People, Rolls of Honor Tagged With: Australian History, Buck, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

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