Aviation Pioneers of the Outback of WA : PART 2 – By John Pritchard MacRoberston Miller Aviation Co in WA The origins of this airline were formed by Mr Horrie Miller in Victoria in 1920 whilst conducting general aviation services using a variety of aircraft types. In 1928, he commenced his first airline service between […]
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 Coolgardie Safe – a family story
04/07/2020 By 2 Comments
Several members of the McCormick family were to emigrate from South Australia to Western Australia in the late 1890’s but the most well know of them, was Arthur Patrick McCormick who was the inventor of the ‘Coolgardie Safe’. The following photographs are connected to this family but are also valuable in their own right, as […]
Heffernan family – grave tales
04/07/2020 By Leave a Comment
After a recent blog post on early Mt Margaret Deaths, I received a most interesting email from Margaret (Margo) Lanagan, who was able to give us a little more information on the two HEFFERNAN’S in that list. The following are the two entries from that post. HEFFERNAN James, d 10 Feb 1897, 36yrs, at Black […]
THE GAME – by Ray (Jacko) Jackson
27/06/2020 By Leave a Comment
No more bets big Nick cried, as the pennies went up, And they spun round and round in the air Tails he called when they came down to rest, For the spinner it was sheer despair. He tossed the kip down on the ground in the ring; that was a quick lost ten qui […]
Heres’ to you Mrs Robinson – a pioneering woman
27/06/2020 By 1 Comment
This photograph was taken at Lake View Consoles GM in Kalgoorlie in 1896. It shows a group of gold prospectors and miners, including adventurous natural-geologist and pioneering prospector Robert (‘Bobby’) Robinson and his wife, Annie, standing at the right of the group. Not many woman are depicted in these earlier photographs, many choosing to stay […]
