Western Australia Archives - Page 118 of 352

How the Black Camel Came for Clyde Firebrace

25/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Kalgoorlie Western Argus -25 December 1900, page 56 HOW THE BLACK CAMEL CAME FOR CLYDE FIREBRACE A Story of the W A Goldfields. by F. Wills Johnson. The man who told me this strange story, Bryce V Fairclough, is one of whom naught but good is spoken, and whose words are of a truth unvarnished. […]

Kunanalling or the 25 Mile – ghost towns

25/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

KUNANALLING (Also known as the 25 Mile) GPS 30 41 05 S 121 04 0E In Dec of 1892, James Speakman and his party pegged a lease in this area but did not apply for an exemption when he left due to a lack of water. A man called Adams then re-pegged the lease, called […]

Kanowna Cemetery – a work in progress

18/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Usually, when doing a cemetery upgrade for the Outback Family History website, I work on it until everything has been checked again and again and we have photographs of those buried there where available, and also newspaper articles and copies of inscriptions added. For the Kanowna Cemetery (the second one) we are going to do […]

Sisters of the Church – the first High School

18/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The following story was written by Fr Ted Doncaster and is an extract from the publication “The Cross in the Field, a history of the Anglican Church in the Eastern and Murchison Goldfields of Western Australia”. It is produced with his permission and I would like to thank him for his assistance and his continued […]

Charlie Webb – a good fellows end

11/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE: The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence indicating Mt. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an […]