After living in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for many years, and talking to lots of people about what they did as youngsters and what games they played. I was told, that although playing on the slime dumps and near mine shafts was ‘strictly forbidden’ just about everyone did it. If their parents had know what they got up […]
Where is Gum Creek ?
While researching details on the burial of a mining death for the Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial, I came across the cemetery of Gum Creek. This was a new name for me so I looked into it further, I was also able to add another name to my collection of hotel names. The Book ‘West […]
Adam Glover Brown – a family story
I was recently contact by Geoff Edwards, who was planning a trip to Kalgoorlie to look into his family history. His relative, Adam Glover Brown, was a member of a Masonic Lodge. Geoff was fortunate to be able to attend a talk by Doug Daws on the history of Freemasonry at the Eastern Goldfields Historical […]
Memories of Coolgardie and Wooroloo
I was recently contacted by Helena Britt who vary kindly shared with me a copy of a section of her mothes memoirs. Her grandfather, Dr Robert Mitchell, was the first Chief Medical Officer at Coolgardie Hospital and the first Superintendent of Wooroloo Sanitorium, he was in this post until his retirement in 1941. Helena’s mother […]
When there’s a Gold Rush ‘Sell Beer’
Coolgardie Pioneer 24 December 1898, page 38 THE MAYOR AND HIS ESTABLISHMENT “I don’t want no pioneering life, take me back to Collingwood.” This was the strain sung by an Eastern states poet who visited and was disgusted with these fields in the early days. Fortunately for the country, the majority of the old-timers, although […]
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