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Mollie’s Box – A family story

26/01/2019 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

by Pam Caddy In 1999 a television program ‘Adopt A Soldier’ promoting the Perth Battye Library, featured a copy of a photograph of Pam Caddy’s father and four of his brothers all serving in WW1. This was the first time that Pam had seen the photo and she found out that it was from a […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Comet Vale, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Memories of Ora Banda – a verse

24/01/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

My old home town is deserted now The prospecting scene has been altered But the memory lingers deep down somehow Of brave men who never faltered In their search for gold, in the auriferous hills. Despite the heat and cold and winter ills I can see them now as they blazed the track Accepting the […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Goldfields History, Ora Banda, Western Australia

A Picnic in Bush – Sirr Family

21/01/2019 By Moya Sharp 6 Comments

I was recently sent this wonderful photograph from OFH reader, Peter Sirr, who has given me permission to share this great image from his family album. Peter tells me:-  This is a Sirr family photo circa 1914 (or before). They are at a picnic on a woodline out of Gwalia/Leonora.  The older white haired man […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Gwalia, Leonora, Western Australia

The Murder of the Duke of Sutherland:

16/01/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

John Sutherland, better known at the ‘Duke of Sutherland’,died on the 26th February 1895 in his own camp at Nannine, in the Meekatharra district. His age was not know. He was a miner who was shot dead by and old friend, Henry August Muller, who then killed himself. Both men were old identities at Nannine. […]

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

St Michael’s School : new records

01/01/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

After several months, we would like to say that the transcript of the admission records for St Michael’s School, Corner of Butler and Peers St, Kalgoorlie have now been completed. The school closed in 1975 and the records transferred to St Mary’s Primary School, Kalgoorlie. These records are reproduced with the permission of the St Mary’s […]

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

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