Harry Pearce, a former instructor with the Victorian Police Force, opened a gymnasium in portion of Leiper & Lamb’s store in 1893, where he taught boxing and promoted bouts for prizes donated at his insistence by lucky miners and where, according to one writer ‘the exponents of biff by sleight of hand extracted gold from […]
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
Oscar Ohlson – fireman
14/07/2018 By 1 Comment
Oscar Olaf Ohlson of the Coolgardie Fire Brigade taken 26 Jun 1912. He was born in Sweden on 23 Dec 1882 and died in North Adelaide and is buried in the Cheltenham Cemetery, South Australia on the 18 Mar 1954.
Edwards- Embleton Wedding
11/07/2018 By Leave a Comment
Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 – 1954), Sunday 27 September 1936, page 7 Edwards-Embleton Wedding On the occasion of the marriage of Frank, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Edwards, of Edwards Find, Southern Cross, to Ena, eldest daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. Embleton, of Kalgoorlie, which took place in Saint […]
The Storming of Grants Groggery:
07/07/2018 By Leave a Comment
Roaring Days in Old Broad Arrow 1908 A Pioneer Publicans Troubles The Storming of Grants Groggery There used to be some purple hued hours in the now decadent old ” Arrow,” in tho devil-may-care and open handed Nineties. No one cared about the troubles of today, nor went out of his road to meet those […]
The Coolgardie Brewing and Ice Co:
03/07/2018 By Leave a Comment
Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 – 1954), Saturday 10 September 1898, page 52 The Coolgardie Brewing and Ice Co Ltd The Coolgardie Brewing and Ice Company Limited was established in Toorak, a suburb of the town, in November, 1895, and has now become a valuable property. It is the finest building of its kind […]
