Follow my blog with Bloglovin I was recently contacted by my friend and grave photographer extraordinaire, Danielle Warnock, about a query she had received from Duncan Fraser, about the grave of Simon Rose Fraser, his Great Uncle, buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. He asked if she could take some photos of the grave for him […]
Uncle Jack – a tree to remember him
I was recently contacted by Jeannine Nolan who has very kindly allowed me to tell the story of her Great Uncle Jack. She came to get in touch through a story I did last year about John Hindhaugh. There may be a family connection as Emily Marion Hindhaugh married Ezra Chappel, Jack’s uncle. Sadly Emily […]
Turning the Sod
Follow my blog with Bloglovin The Mirror – Perth 28 August 1937, page 23 Kalgoorlie Brewery’s Record of Progress, Maker of Big K Ale and Stout & Hannan Lager ONLY one of the 19 breweries once trading on the Goldfields has survived. That is the Kalgoorlie Brewery and its record is one of continued progress. […]
The Amazing Escapades of Margaret Bale part 2
Follow my blog with Bloglovin The previous week On the 22nd December 1909, a young woman called Margaret Bale disappeared in Perth WA. She was booked to travel from Kalgoorlie to England on the 6th January 1910. She was eventually ‘discovered’ living as a man under the name of Martin Able. She ‘sold’ her story, […]
Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 25th April 2021
How has your week been, some of you I know are again in lockdown if you are in Western Australia, but where ever you are in the world I hope that all is well with you. This weekend was supposed to be three days of moving the contents of my already packed office, plus lots […]
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