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Titanic Sinks – How the Goldfields Heard!!!

14/04/2015 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

On the 14th April 1912, 103 yrs ago today the SS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. The following is a copy of the newspaper article from 16th April 1912 from the Kalgoorlie Miner and describes how the people of the Goldfields of Western Australia were first told of the tragedy. WHITE STAR LINER COLLIDES […]

Dan Shea – Discovered Gold With Paddy Hannan

10/04/2015 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Memorial headstone in memory of prospector Dan Shea, who discovered gold with Paddy Hannan in Kalgoorlie. Dan Shea was born in County Cork, Ireland, and emigrated in 1868 to prospect on the goldfields of Australia and New Zealand. He teamed up with Paddy Hannan and Tom Flanagan, and the three prospectors worked together to prospect […]

Phillip Edward VOWELS – Goldfields Hero

08/04/2015 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Lt. Philip Edward Michael VOWELS (KIA) 11th May 1918 aged 27 years, Born in 1890 in Horsham, VIC (23994), 11th Battalion(Infantry) Military Cross and bar to Military Cross. He was the son of William Henry VOWELS and Bridget Maria (Whelan), who came over to Cioolgardie, Western Australia, in the late 1890s. He is acknowledged in […]

Peter Dennis KAVANAGH – a ledgend in his time

07/04/2015 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Peter Dennis Kavanagh joined the Police Force when he was twenty-one. How he crushed the gold-stealing industry on the Golden Mile has now gone down in history. He was tutored by that wonderfully astute Excise Inspector – John Mitchell Christie. He was a born detective, keen and shrewd, with boundless energy. He was also a […]

Arthur Postle – The Crimson Flash

06/04/2015 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

ARTHUR POSTLE – WORLD CHAMPION ATHLETE “THE CRIMSON FLASH” Born in 1881 at Springside near Pittsworth in Queensland, Arthur Postle was revered around the globe in the years before World War I as the fastest man alive. He turned professional in 1902 and on 5 December 1906 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, he set a world […]