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The Girl of the Goldfields:- a family story

08/01/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

This is the story of Rhonda Moag’s Great Aunt Maree. She had often been told the story by her Aunt Sonia about Aunt Maree who was a brilliant equestrian who led a grand parade atop a big white horse and then was tragically killed when she was thrown. It was never clear if she was […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Kalgoorlie boulder, 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

Amid the Smoke and Smoulder – a verse

09/12/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

… the demise of Pitman and Walsh In an era of the Charleston, she’s roaring out Kalgoorlie way The war’s over, gold’s in demand, and the miners are on good pay Then greed overtakes good fortune, miners’ fingers soon hit the till Gold stealing becomes endemic, and their crib bags are more than full Furnaces […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Pitman and Walsh, Western Australia

Christmas Tree Party – by tony bozich

02/12/2018 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Youngsters in the 1940’s/60’s whose fathers worked of the then, Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie company, enjoyed the annual Christmas Tree Party held every year by the company at the Hamilton Park opposite the Boulder Block in Fimiston for its employees, free drinks and sweets and other eats being served to the children from about 6.30 […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Christmas, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

Kalgoorlie Hospital – the first records

01/12/2018 By Moya Sharp 25 Comments

I was fortunate that a friend came across, and copied, the following admission register for the Kalgoorlie Hospital at State Records in Perth. It dates from Dec 1894 to May 1896. These would be the very first people treated on the same site as the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital in Piccadilly Street, Kalgoorlie today. It is […]

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

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