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Kalgoorlie Electric Tramways

09/07/2015 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

KET Honour Board

This is the emblem on the honor board held at the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board depot (The Car Barn) on Boulder Road, formerly called the Kalgoorlie Electric Tramways. These are the employees named on the board who fought in WW1. W Morley (KIA),    E Landquist (KIA),    S Pearson,   J McCleery,   J […]

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Rest In Peace – Kalgoorlie Cemetery

09/07/2015 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Rest In Peace

I short while ago I posted a photograph I took in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery of the grave of a baby where the memorial on the grave was the actual babies cot. This photo, also in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, is on a single plot where the same symbolism has been used but this ‘bed’ has been […]

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A Gold Seekers Odyssey by L R Menzies

08/07/2015 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

      Leslie Menzies was one of the hopeful band of prospectors who arrived in Western Australia during the 1890’s goldrush. A successful miner in the USA and NZ, his knowledge gave him an early advantage at Parkers Range and the Murchison. The Menzies mines were discovered by him in 1894. In the ups […]

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The Bardoc Murder

07/07/2015 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Grave of Isaac Robert Miell

In a post I did a few days ago about a lonely grave of Katherine Williamson at Bardoc I mentioned that there was the victim of a murder buried not far from her. The grave of the victim of the unsolved Bardoc murder is on the bank of the creek leading down from Lindsay’s Soak […]

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GUDARRA (Paddington)

06/07/2015 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Gudarra is a an abandoned Eastern Goldfields townsite located approximately 30kms north north west of Kalgoorlie. Gold was first discovered here in 1892, the place firstly being known as the ‘Sore Foot Rush’, a reference to the tired limping diggers who first arrived when the rush began. This was soon changed to Paddington, the reason […]

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