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Albert William Rodda – pioneer profile

24/10/2018 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Albert William Rodda of Boulder City, was born at Tanunda South Australia on the 24th May 1858 and is the son of the late William Murdoch Rodda. He received his education his native town and at the age of 14yrs was apprenticed to the storekeeping trade for four years. At the ned of this time he […]

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

All the little Children – Bulong Cemetery

23/10/2018 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

BEDWELL unnamed male child, d 1898, Bulong, Father:- Isaac BEDWELL, Occ:-Miner, Mother:- Margaret Helen MILLER, Buried in the Bulong Cemetery. BEDWELL unnamed male child, d 28 Apr 1899, Margaret Street, Bulong, Father:- Isaac BEDWELL, Occ:-Miner, Mother:- Margaret Helen MILLER, Buried in the Bulong Cemetery. BRYANT Charles, d 30 Aug 1900, Archer Street, Bulong, Infant 7 […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Bulong, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Western Australia

A Generous Man – Romeo Stefani

20/10/2018 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Romeo Battista Stefani, or Ron to his friends, was best know to the people of the Goldfields as a hard working generous man who ran the Kalgoorlie Wine Saloon and Amalfi Restaurant from 1952 – 1977. For some Italians who were migrants to the Goldfields during that time he became a father figure. Far from […]

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

The Miners’ Hall – Boulder

20/10/2018 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Goldfields Leader of February 1902 reported that “The Boulder Miners’ Hall was erected on the Lake View lease some 5 or 6 years ago”. It is believed that the Rev’d E.M. Collick purchased it by private subscription and almost entirely enlarged it considerably at his own expense  He was Rector of Boulder from1898 to […]

Filed Under: Church Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Church, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Coolgardie Safe – a family story

19/10/2018 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

Several members of the McCormick family were to emigrate from South Australia to Western Australia in the late 1890’s but the most well know of them, was Arthur Patrick McCormick who was the inventor of the ‘Coolgardie Safe’. The following photographs are connected to this family but are also valuable in their own right, as […]

Filed Under: People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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