Indigenous Veteran to be Honoured.

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Just over a year ago, I was contacted by historian, Maureen Roberts to ask if I could take a photograph of a headstone (if there was one) in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. She had been researching the family of Hubert Lawrence and found he died in Kalgoorlie in 1970. When I visited the cemetery I found […]

An Extraordinary Tale

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I have often mentioned, the regular occurrence, of what you may call ‘synchronicity’ where two related things come together for no apparent reason. It seems to happen with amazing regularity and I have lost count on how many time I have received an enquiry on a particular person or place only to have another person […]

Scandal at Murtagh’s Private School

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The following story is about a teacher who went from town to town setting up schools for a short time then leaving under a cloud of suspicion. First in Perth in 1892 then to Kalgoorlie and  Coolgardie then on to Perth again then Bunbury with the same results. However Mr Murtagh was in no way […]

THE PRIEST AND THE POLICEMAN

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THE PRIEST AND THE POLICEMAN   by Peter Conole (WA Police Historian) (Retired 2013) with permission from the Police Historical Soc  @ http://www.policewahistory.org.au/HTML_Pages/Museum.html The above photograph is a fairly well known West Australian image, one which deserves a greater degree of fame. This fine relic of the Gold Rush days has been in the possession of the […]

The Glass on the Bar – by Henry Lawson

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The Glass on the Bar Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn, And one of them called for the drinks with a grin; They’d only returned from a trip to the North, And, eager to greet them, the landlord came forth. He absently poured out a glass of Three Star. And set down […]