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The Pauley Bros – pioneer profile

10/11/2018 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Mr Edward Pauley was the senior partner in the firm of Pauley Bros, produce merchants of Boulder. He was born in Bendigo Victoria on the 5 Apr 1869. He was the son of the late Edward Pauley, a farmer, who was one of the first to prove the existence of payable gold in Bendigo. Mr […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

The Mysterious Mr Bradley – a family story

06/11/2018 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The comment ‘not another Lionel’ is a long-standing joke, between a good friend of mine and fellow historian, Graeme Sisson, who was the Archivist of the Police Historical Soc of WA at the time. It came to refer to any research inquiry that we were working on that was more than a little complicated and […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Menzies, Pilkington, Western Australia

Ernest Giles – grave tales

03/11/2018 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

The Australian explorer Ernest Giles (1835-1897) was the first man to cross the desert wilderness between central and western Australia both ways. The Australian explorer Ernest Giles (1835-1897) was the first man to cross the desert wilderness between central and western Australia both ways. Ernest Giles was born in Bristol, England, on July 20, 1835, […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Coolgardie, Ernest Giles, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Globe Hotel – Coolgardie hotels 2

02/11/2018 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Globe Hotel was situated between Ford and Hunt Streets Coolgardie. There is no known photograph of the building which has survived. W M Faahan was the first owner and claimed it to be the first hotel in Coolgardie. In 1895 it was known as, Alec Caro’s Wine and Beer Saloon, three months later, when […]

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

Goldfields Courier and Golden Age -newspapers

30/10/2018 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Goldfields Courier (Weekly) and the Golden Age (Daily) were two Coolgardie newspapers that ran from 1894 -1898. The following photograph shows their offices in Bayley Street, Coolgardie in 1895. Although this is well-known photograph it holds a wealth of other details if looked at closely. Offices of the Goldfields Courier and the Golden Age […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Newspapers, Western Australia

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