From the Sunday Times 11th May 1941:- A Tragedy Recalled Elderly, venerable, Said Mahomet Yar first spread his praying mat and commenced his morning with Allah then rolled and strapped his blankets and dismantled his self made wind sheet. Before continuing his journey he carefully counted the contents of two leather pouches which swung at […]
Almost Killed with Kindness!!
01/01/2016 By Leave a Comment
From the Western Argus Newspaper 24th January 1905 Coolgardie Jan 17th 1905 Sydney CONDER who was admitted to the Coolgardie Hospital last Thursday suffering from snakebite is in a serious condition. Condor saw a rabbit enter a burrow and thrust his arm in and was bitten on the hand. His ‘mates’ scarified the bite to […]
Liquid Gold – The Elliott Brothers Breweries
25/09/2015 By Leave a Comment
Tom and Bill Elliott came to Western Australia in 1893 and moved immediately to the Goldfields where they began a business as cartage contractors. After two years, in 1895, Tom built a cordial factory near the Kalgoorlie rail line and also the Federal Brewery in Kalgoorlie for F W Whitfield. In 1898 he was to […]
East Perth Cemetery – Coolgardie People
23/08/2015 By 6 Comments
While staying with my daughter recently who lives in East Perth we had the occasion to visit the East Perth Cemetery on Cemetery Hill which I had always wanted to see but as it is only open on Sunday afternoon between 2-4 I have not had the chance to before. This old cemetery which operated […]
An Irish Romancer – The Search for the real Walter Robert Fitzgerald-Moore
09/08/2015 By 2 Comments
AN IRISH ROMANCER: THE SEARCH FOR THE REAL WALTER ROBERT FITZGERALD-MOORE Walter Moore, if that was his real name!, was my grandfather, but he died 25 years before I was born. His origins are shrouded in mystery and even the circumstances of his death – “in the arms of his mistress” as my father so bitterly put it – […]
