The Albany Fish Supply Co. was located at 235-6 Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. I would say that would be about the present location of the Kalgoorlie City News, just before St Barbara’s Square. These two advertisements are from the Kalgoorlie Miner in 1929. The Company changed its name to The United Fisheries Co. in […]
A Dearly Beloved Wife – Edith Rosman
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who sees beauty in some memorials in cemeteries. I have spent a great deal of my life wandering around cemeteries, especially our Kalgoorlie Cemetery. The view from the road is often as much as is seen, but if you venture through the gates, you will discover so […]
Water Rations for Gold Miners
This is typical of the scenes at many mines in WA’s eastern goldfields. At the time this photograph was taken – water rations were connected with employment conditions at many mines. Workers on some goldfields were entitled to condensed water as part of their wages, receiving 2 or 4 gallons (9 or 18 L) per […]
A Nannine Wedding
I just love this photo. It has so many interesting parts. It is of a wedding party in Nannine, which is about 35 km south west of Meekatharra. The rather middle-aged bride and groom on their ‘Wedding Camel’, the best man and chief bridesmaid on bicycles, each with a bouquet tied to the handlebars. The […]
The 1942 Boulder Bombings – By Peter Skehan
BOULDER BOMBINGS” “GHASTLY TRAGEDY” “TERRIBLE SCENES OF SLAUGHTER” “FOURTEEN MURDERED” These are among the headlines which greeted the public after what could be described as this State’s largest multiple murder. The surprising thing about these horrific murders is the fact that they have receded into history without our current generation being aware of this devastating […]
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