The following account of an interview with Messrs. Bayley and Ford, the discoverers of Coolgardie, is taken from the Australian Mining Standard. The West Australian – 1 Dec 1893, Pg 7 THE DISCOVERERS OF COOLGARDIE. Bayley and Ford Firstly, a word of personal description may not be out of place just here. Arthur Bayley is […]
Not Just a President Wife – Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover was the wife of Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States of America. There has been a great deal written about her husband’s time on the Goldfields of Western Australia, but very little has been told about his wife’s achievements in her own right. During her time as ‘First […]
Tampa’s Forgotten Cemetery: A Single Soul at Rest
TAMPA BURIALS 29°13.41’S – 121°50.07’E – Cemetery Reserve: 4096 TAMPA – AKA Dingo Creek Tampa is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 805 km east northeast of Perth and about 55 km south of Leonora. Gold was discovered in the Tampa area in the late 1890s, and by 1896, there was enough demand for land for […]
Oh Who Could Paint a Goldfield – by Henry Lawson
This is a favourite of mine, especially the first two lines, to me, they are evocative of the spirit of the Goldfields: Oh! Who could paint a Goldfields and paint the picture right? As old adventurers saw it in early morning light. The yellow mounds of mullock with spots of red and white The scattered […]
Echoes of Wooroloo: A Doctor’s Family in a Time of Change
I was contacted by Helena Britt, who very kindly shared with me a copy of a section of her mother’s memoirs. Her grandfather, Dr Robert Mitchell, was the first Chief Medical Officer at Coolgardie Hospital and the first Superintendent of Wooroloo Sanitorium. He was in this post until his retirement in 1941. Helena’s mother and […]
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