I was sent this story by Kevin Matthees, who is the great-grandson of Leonard Charles Jackson. Jackson was the proprietor of the Bright Spot Tea Rooms, in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie in November of 1946. This was one of a chain of similar tearooms throughout WA. Do you think he was innocent? This was a case […]
A History of ‘The Round’ by Darren McAullay
The Round By Darren McAullay It is, without doubt, one of the biggest, most colourful, and successful racing carnivals to be staged anywhere in Australia. It is steeped in history, has been the scene of some of the most incredible events both on and off the track and for many, it has etched memories that […]
Seven Brides – the Howie Girls Make History
I was recently contacted by Melissa Atkinson about a photograph I had posted on the Outback Family History Facebook page of the wedding of her great aunt, Edna Howie. She told me that her gorgeous Nana was Beryl Howie, Edna’s sister, and she told me a wonderful story about how: The Howie girls made matrimonial […]
Kalgoorlie Hospital Admission Records – No 8
The next files are now released: “3600 individual new entries” File 37 and 38 – from 30th January 1916 to 27 August 1919 The Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, told us some 17 years ago, that all of the original patient admission registers from the very first days of the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital were still stored in […]
Helena Maud ‘Lily’ Pike – grave tales
On the 27th April 1906, Helena ‘Lily’ Maud Pike (nee Rosevere) aged 30yrs, passed away at the St John of God Hospital in Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie from Typhoid. She was the wife of councillor Eustace Walter Pike and the mother of one child, James Albert, aged 6yrs. The couple had married in Adelaide SA in […]
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