The Rose Garden Memorial – KRH

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Kalgoorlie regional Hospital, St Albans Road, Kalgoorlie Western Australia,  ‘Lat: -30.741389  Long: 121.471111’ (Photographs by Sandy Duncan) Many Readers may be unaware that we have a WW2 memorial at the Rose Garden at the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital at the St Albans Road Entrance. The memorial is in the form of an individual plaque for a […]

BULONG – or the I.O.U

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  Excerpts from an interesting account of the early days of Bulong which appeared  in the Kalgoorlie Miner newspaper Monday 16th June 1952 Bulong, situated about 20 miles east of Kalgoorlie and 15 miles south east of Kanowna, was active from about 1893 to 1908 with various deep leads and alluvial workings, which by 1900 […]

My Blog is three years old !!!

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I can’t believe it is three years since my very first post. Now three years later and 277 posts on here we are. I must say that I absolutely love searching for new stories to tell and often, well most of the time actually, I end up writing about something compleatly different to what I […]

Tommy King and ‘The Miners Dream’

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The Southern Cross Times 9th May 1914  –     THE MINERS DREAM The old identities expressed deep and sincere regret yesterday when  word came into town that old Tommy King had been killed at Parker’s Range, for Tommy was one of the pioneers of 1887 and 1888. For over 28 years the deceased maintained that he had a rich gold find […]