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The Wednesday Afternoon Cricket Clubs

31/05/2016 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Argus 15 April 1902

 

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The Star – Wine and Beer Saloon.

29/05/2016 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Star Wine and Beer Saloon

The Star Wine and Beer Saloon is the first photograph to be uploaded to the ‘Hotels of the Goldfields’ project. Im sure that this is one that most will not have heard of or seen before. It was on the location of 37 to 39 Broadarrow Road, Kalgoorlie and could possibly be part of the […]

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Hotels of The Goldfields

26/05/2016 By Moya Sharp 10 Comments

Hotel Moving

Some eighteen years ago my late friend, Sandy Duncan, and I started collecting photographs and information on the hotels of the Goldfields of Western Australia.  Although we were collectors of all aspects of Goldfields History, hotels became our personal project. Sandy would look after the Kalgoorlie and Boulder hotels and I would do the ‘Other’ […]

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Can you help Outback Family History???

25/05/2016 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

  Hi Everyone!  Are any readers ‘Booktopia’ customers or ‘Ancestry.com’ members??  When you log on to these pages it would be a huge assistance to Outback Family History if you could log on through the Outback Family History blog page:- @ www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com             This won’t make any difference to any […]

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Snatched from the Jaws of Death

22/05/2016 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Argus 5th May 1898 LOST IN THE BUSH. FIVE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER. MISS JANECZEK’S AWFUL EXPERIENCE!   Southern Cross seems determined to make a name for itself. Beside those persons interested in the mines in the place, nobody scarcely knew of this town, in the barren desert of West Australia. Then it […]

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Filed Under: Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Constance JANECZEK, Family History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, lost in the bush, Southern Cross, Western Australia

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