BROTHER URIAH DUDLEY, MINING ENGINEER AND FREEMASON by Geoff Randall Shortly after Uriah Dudley was born in 1852 in Bedfordshire, England, his parents migrated to Australia. They were part of the mass immigration of Victoria’s Gold Rush era and settled first of all in Geelong. During the Gympie Gold Boom in Queensland the family moved […]
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
Thousands of Miles Through the Outback:
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Sunday Times – Perth – Sunday 23 August 1936, page 20 Drove Coach For Cobb & Co. MR. Frederick Albert Crews LOOKS BACK ON PIONEERING DAYS Thousands of Miles Through the Outback By Coach A link with coaching days of sixty years ago is provided j by Mr. Frederick A. Crews, of Outram street, West […]
Snatched from the jaws of death:
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Lost in the Bush Five Days Without Food or Water Miss Janeczek’s Awful Experience! Southern Cross seems determined to make a name for itself. Beside those persons interested in the mines in the place, nobody scarcely knew of this town, in the barren desert of West Australia. Then it was heard of as a starting-place […]
Living in caves:
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Daily News – Tuesday 15 July 1947, page 15 KALGOORLIE — Drawn back to the goldfields to spend their last days, are two 78 year old pensioners. They are Messrs. A. J. Girdlestone and James O’Connell. They live in caves on the out skirts of Kalgoorlie. The cramped cave homes are in an old open […]
Albert Ernest Gard by Ric Francis
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He was born in Broken Hill 7th January 1894 & married his wife Ethel May on 16th July 1923, at St Johns Anglican Church in Kalgoorlie. Ethel May was born in Coolgardie 3rd March 1900. His father (Jim) was born in St Ives in Cornwell about 1860, and apparently gained some experience in the Mining […]
