The Giantess – This lady traveled the country, made a lot of money and was much admired. It seems the female form was viewed quite differently 122 yrs ago! From the Coolgardie Miner Aug 1898 In Bayley Street last night, for the first time in the Goldfields, there was seen ‘Mademoiselle Rewald’ who has come […]
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
Gone But Not Forgotten – grave tales
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An interesting tale about a grave in the Boulder cemetery. I was contacted some time ago by Peter Huntly, a relative of Annie Bell who died at the Kalgoorlie Hospital on the 24th Oct 1909, and was subsequently buried in the Boulder Cemetery on the 29th of October 1909. Peter had already seen a photo […]
A Haunting Tale – The Finnerty’s
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Jack and Francis Tree had lived in Coolgardie since 1970 and fifteen of those years had been in Warden Finnerty’s House in McKenzie Street, Coolgardie. The six-bedroom mansion was built by the Bunning Brothers soon after they arrived in 1895 and before they established their hardware business which we all know of today. The Wardens […]
Stephen Starr – Grave Tales
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Kalgoorlie Western Argus – 28 September 1899, page 11 SUDDEN DEATH OF A KALGOORLIE HOTELKEEPER. At about half past 6 p.m. on Sunday Mr Stephen William Alfred Starr, the lessee of the new Federal Hotel, at the top end of Hannan street, died from a complication of the bowels. His decease was quite unexpected, for […]
Mazzucchelli’s- The Beginning and End of an Era
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MAZZUCCHELLI’S the Jewellers first opened its ‘golden’ doors in 1903 in Boulder, Western Australia under the partnership of watchmaker Matthew Mazzucchelli and jeweller Sam Downes. Matthew’s father, Joseph, an Italian from the village of Poschiavo in Switzerland, emigrated to Australia as a miner in 1859 during the Victorian gold rush. Matthew was born in 1876 […]
