Kalgoorlie Western Argus 13 December 1904, page 19 THE ERLISTOUN by V. Clausen Where is Erlistoun??? Latitude 27″ 59′ 03″ S Longitude 122″ 20′ 25″ East Mt Margaret Goldfields. Located 71.5 km north of Laverton at Borodale Creek once known as Mistake Creek. Erlistoun usually referred to as ‘The Erlistoun’ was never gazetted as a […]
The Story of a Daring Coward –
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Sunday Times Perth 31 January 1909, page 1 Have you heard of Jim Connolly? He was a great bushman and a line prospector and could fire two revolvers at once. The left hand was as deadly as the right, and either was certain death if Jim had any interest in mitigating your existence. He was […]
Murder in a Mining Camp
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Sunday Times 29 August 1943, page 7 Murder In a Gold Mining Camp Murderers I Have Known, by Harry Mann, ex-Chief of the C.I.B., Perth, as told to Max Praed Boom days on the Murchison goldfields! What a picture that calls up, to us who remember the richness and the wickedness! of those roaring times! […]
The Norman Tindale Collection –
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Most of the people photographed in this collection would now be deceased, except for some of the children and very young adults. Outback Family History were kindly given copies of some of the images from the Goldfields area only, they are on the OFH website – SEARCH. The list I have is not a complete […]
From Gold to Milking Cows – by Helen Astrand
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From Gold to Milking Cows A story of a young life on a dairy farm in the Goldfields by Helen Astrand nee Pollard The late 1890s saw John James POLLARD, born 1877 in Moonta in South Australia, travel from SA to Malcolm in the Northern Goldfields of Western Australia to seek his fortune. There he […]
