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James Webster Berry – Anzac Hero

30/12/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

I was recently sent the following story by Peter Davidson about his relative by marriage, James Webster Berry. He tells me that the widow of James Berry later married Claude Albo de Bernales. James Webster Berry (Reg 4207) was the son of George Berry who was born in 1838 in Fife Scotland and Mary Berry […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Soldiers Story, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

Jim The Hatter’s Christmas Party

16/12/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Old Jim the “Hatter” lay in bed half asleep. At least he reckoned himself half asleep, although he knew well enough that it was Christmas morning and time to get up. But he had dreamt such a wonderful dream and the illusion, the charm of it, so persisted that he hated to open his eyes. […]

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Left Waiting at the Church –

11/11/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

WAITING AT THE CHURCH. PLIGHT OF A PAIR IN PICCADILLY A Brace of Boulderites Kept Waiting at the Matrimonial Starting Barrier— For the Parson who ” Forgot.” 11th April 1909 A NOW HAPPY PAIR (since they are married) who, for the best part of an hour, on Wednesday afternoon last, feared that their chance of […]

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Paddy Hannan’s Statue –

14/10/2023 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Paddy Hannans Statue Early in 1928, The Sun newspaper in Kalgoorlie directed the attention of the residents of Kalgoorlie that although a plaque and a tree existed to make the first place where gold was found in Kalgoorlie no permanent memorial to the man who found it, Paddy Hannan, existed. The article suggested that a […]

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The Tattersalls Club Affair –

07/10/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

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