Mrs Walshaw of Comet Vale Story and photos by Bernie Morris First Published in ‘The Westland’ 2005 For a few months in the year 1895, the terminus of the new railway thrusting east from Southern Cross to the twin Eldorado’s of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie stood at Boorabbin with strings of half-piled wagons, sullen afghans cruising […]
First Impressions Count – by Wiero
Western Mail Perth 23 December 1937, page 86 Jack Lawson was having difficulty with his hair. Since yesterday’s swim in the none too clean water-hole, it had departed from its usual submissiveness and now insisted on standing straight on end. “Just the one day of the year when I wanted especially to look my best,” […]
The Tattersalls Club Affair –
I was sent this story by Kevin Matthees, who is the great-grandson of Leonard Charles Jackson. Jackson was the proprietor of the Bright Spot Tea Rooms, in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie in November of 1946. This was one of a chain of similar tearooms throughout WA. Do you think he was innocent? This was a case […]
A History of ‘The Round’ by Darren McAullay
The Round By Darren McAullay It is, without doubt, one of the biggest, most colourful, and successful racing carnivals to be staged anywhere in Australia. It is steeped in history, has been the scene of some of the most incredible events both on and off the track and for many, it has etched memories that […]
Just a Stockmans Grave – by Trevor Tilka
William Heron, an Irishman, was about 65 years old when he died in March 1927. He was a station hand and stockman on the Wanarra Station near Wubin. He was drowned in a flash flood in the area and his body was discovered some distance away washed up against a tree two miles from his […]
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