The outback mining centre of Maninga Marley is situated some 620 miles north-east of Perth. The Maninga Marley Gold Mine, from which the place takes its name, was found by prospectors Ernest Alfred Arundel and Matthew Dwyer. The claim was registered by Arundel. In 1906 the lease was held in four names, Arundel, Matthew and […]
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
Lina FURIA – people profile
02/11/2017 By 2 Comments
Lina Furia (1891 – 1970) Born 4 November 1891 – Grosotto, Tirano, Valtellina Died 1970 Coolgardie, Western Australia – buried Boulder Cemetery. Occupation – Hotel owner Alternative Names – Osmetti, Lina – Robustellini, Lina Summary Lina Furia owned and ran the Cornwall Hotel in Boulder with her husband Charlie Furia and her son […]
The Picnic – tragedy in the great drought
02/11/2017 By 3 Comments
The day dawned still and sure, as the first day might have dawned. No wind whispered across the white dust. This was a day like any other. But she knew it was not! By Frannie HOPKIRK The woman had slept fitfully through the hot night. Her slumber the shallow sad unrest of one tormented by life, […]
Time Lapse – then and now
30/10/2017 By 7 Comments
Kalgoorlie Cemetery gates, first photo taken today and the second c 1950, which do you prefer???
“The Steward and his wife” – a family story
27/10/2017 By 3 Comments
The photographs in this story were kindly supplied by Catherine and George’s Granddaughter, Jan Hale. This photo shows Kate Davis in a nurse uniform outside her private hospital in either 1898 or 1899. The occasion was Jan’s mother Dorothy’s, 4th or 5th birthday. She is the little dark-haired girl in the front row, 4th from […]
