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Malcolm Cemetery – the legion of the lost

15/06/2019 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Malcolm Cemetery Biographies:   138 burials Also known as Mount Malcolm There are 2 Cemeteries at Malcolm Malcolm Salt Lake Cemetery AKA Lake Raeside –  123 burial from 1897-1911 Malcolm Kookynie Road Cemetery 14 burials 1911 – 1915 Unfortunately apart from identifying various headstones in each cemetery there are not separate registers for each cemetery ADAMS […]

Filed Under: People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Malcolm, Mt Malcolm, Western Australia

The Black Tracker – a verse

15/06/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Black Tracker Swart bloodhounds of the fenceless West, Black gallopers that lead the Law, To whom your victims stand confessed By every lightest line they draw; The hawks that high above you sail Have eyes less keen to pierce the blue, The dingo on his hunting trail Runs slacker in the chase than you! […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, police history, Western Australia

Yerilla – a ghost town

25/05/2019 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Bill Smith's Never Never Land Hotel Yerilla c 1906

YERILLA Latitude : 29 29 S Longitude : 121 50 E Yerilla is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 830 km east north east of Perth, 105 km east north east of Menzies and 37 kms south east of Kookynie.  Gold was discovered in the area in the mid 1890’s, and the miners soon formed a […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yerilla

The Great Boulder Disaster of 1904

25/05/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

THE GREAT BOULDER DISASTER. FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS, HOW THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED. THE ENGINE DRIVER’S ACCOUNT. A great deal has been written, both in the newspapers of the day and since, on the terrible tragedy of ‘The Great Boulder Disaster’ on May 25th 1904. It would be the greatest number of fatalities in one accident that […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Mining Accidents, Western Australia

The Marvel Bar Hotel – Coolgardie hotels

25/05/2019 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The Marvel Bar Hotel is at 31-33 Bayley Street, Coolgardie.  The current building was built in 1898, next to the Western Australian Bank. The first hotel on the site was a single storey iron building. In 1996 it was occupied by the Coolgardie RSL and still is today. The building which is two story, and […]

Filed Under: Hotels Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Hotels, Western Australia

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