I was recently contacted by Graham Darcy who had just made a trip to Kalgoorlie where he wished to look up the location of his old home which was at 35 Brookman Street, Kalgoorlie. When Graham was born, the family lived in in Ardagh Ave Kalgoorlie. Then in 1946 they purchased a house at 35 […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
The Trail of the Bootless Toe – part 2
17/04/2021 By Leave a Comment
Truth – Perth – 19 January 1930, page 6 The Trail of the Bootless Toe Led on to death. Part 1: But Tom Traine Followed Another Trail — that Into the Golden Future (continued from part 1) The temporary manager of Munkaderry Station, on his way to Eva Downs, noticed the trail of the ‘Bootless […]
The Strange Case of Frederick Smith
10/04/2021 By Leave a Comment
A telegraph was received at Cue from Burnakurra, stating that a trucker who was employed at the Wha GM at Errolls had been killed. It also stated that the body was buried at Errolls, and that no inquest was opened. The newspaper three days later reported – “In the circumstances, it will be necessary, in […]
The Thirloway Boys – grave tales
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Young William ‘Billie’ Edward Thirloway died aged only 8 years of age and was buried in the Kalgoorlie cemetery on the 22nd November 1931. Billie’s parents must have been devastated when six years later, on the exact anniversary of Billie’s death, a tragic accident took the life of his brother, Jack Carlson Thirloway aged 14 […]
The Trail of the Bootless Toe – part 1
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Truth – Perth – 19 January 1930, page 6 So he bore to the North! The indent of his big toe that protruded through his worn boot faintly marking the dry dust as he went. All sinewy and almost as straight as a sapling that nature has bent, just a fraction, where the shoulder stem […]
