… 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 […]
A Family Heirloom – Gary Martin
From Gary Martin – Grandson of Thomas Kempt The following letter was one my Grandfather Thomas Kempt received. He was ex Royal Navy and came to Australia in 1919 with his wife and my mother who was only one year old. Initially they lived in a tent at Ora Banda but later shifted to Kalgoorlie […]
Alexander Pitman – The Man Behind the Legend!
I am sure that most people who are interested in the history of the Goldfields of Western Australia will have heard the story of the two gold stealing officers were cruelly murdered and their bodies dismembered and thrown down a mine shaft just outside of town at Millers Find. A great deal has been written […]