Schools – listing of locations – Geoffrey Higham Kalgoorlie – Boulder ALL HALLOWS CONVENT HIGH SCHOOL Closed 30° 46.8′ ***** 121° 29.1′ ***** Established in 1911. Closed in 1913. Address: Wittenoom St Boulder WA. Catholic BOULDER CENTRAL SCHOOL – Renamed 30° 46.8′ 121° 29.3′ Renamed thus in 1909. Renamed to BOULDER PRIMARY SCHOOL. Address: Lane […]
The Church of St Luke -people and places
The Church of St Luke (Anglican) – Trafalgar by Fr Edward Doncaster Trafalgar townsite was gazetted in 1899 and is mentioned in the Boulder service register in 1902 and evening services were commenced in May 1903 by lay reader Mr A E Nadebaum. A building committee of messrs Ginbey and Monkhouse formed in early 1904, […]
Hasty’s Grave – mans best friend
Hasty’s Grave This grateful country cherishes the fine courageous band Who pioneered the wilderness, and founded our great land And so it is appropriate that the name of one so brave Be printed on our outback maps, marked simply ‘Hasty’s Grave’ And for those who wished to go there, and find the grave, perhaps Longitude […]
A Gallant Young Hero
Sunday Times – Perth – 5 April 1914, page 7 The Knickerbocker Hero The Little Lennonville Hero were some of the words used to describe Vincent Atkinson, a young boy of just ten years of age, who was to inspire West Australians with his presence of mind and his ‘heart of a lion’ after he […]
Russian Jack – The other J F K
Dollypot, Greenhide and Spindrift: a journal of bush history Russian Jack and Synchronicity – by Diane Oldman I rather thought I had made up the word ‘synchronicity’ and when I attempted to look it up in several dictionaries I couldn’t find it. So I decided it was a new noun – my noun. Then […]
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