I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand Which, I’m told is very tony – and its front looks very grand And somehow fell a-thinking of a pub I know so well Of a place in West Australia called The Bulletin Hotel Just a little six-room shanty built of corrugated tin […]
On The Golden Trail –
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Sunday Times – Perth – 20 July 1930, page 9 On the Golden Trail Guidé to Carnegie in ’94-Gus Luck’s Early Goldfields Prospecting Experiences Early in November in 1892, two gold hunters, Gus Luck and his mate Jack Burns, out on a prospecting expedition from Coolgardie, found themselves cursing their luck when their camels became […]
Kalgoorlie Hospital Admission Records – No 7
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The next file is now released: File 36 from 16th March 1914 to 30 Jan 1916 – SEARCH Back in 2005, one of the members of the Goldfields Family History Society who worked at the Kalgoorlie Hospital, told us that all of the original admission registers from the very first days of the Kalgoorlie Regional […]
John Minden Caulfeild – grave tales
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On the evening of Monday 20th October 1896, three men of Kanowna, Open Call stockbroker Thomas Moore Fletcher, 22-year-old photographer John Minden Caulfeild, and Richard Baugh, cycled out to Lake Gwynn and set up a camp on the western shore of the lake about 5 miles from Kanowna. They had hired ‘The Gwynn’, a flat […]
Dollypot – The voice of the men who made the country
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The ‘Dolly Pot’ column which was started in the Western Mail newspaper between 1936-1942 was initiated by Cyril Longmore and later taken over by Malcolm Uren. The column started out to collect the reminiscences of the pioneer prospectors and was remarkedly successful. Dolly Pot remains the most significant source of information on the Westralian goldfields […]
