I have just received the following photographs from an OFH reader, Mary Forward. They are shown here with her permission. Many thanks Mary, they are wonderful. They are also on the Outback Family History Web site @ https://www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au/records/town.php?town=Yalgoo
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
Herbert Ernest Wright – a family story
01/06/2017 By 7 Comments
1872– 1945 Guest Post by:- Katherine Statton Herbert Ernest Wright was the ninth child of Thomas Wright and Sarah Hayes Hutchinson. He was born at Green Ponds in Tasmania on 21 April 1872. His father was a teacher at the Green Ponds State School. Green Ponds was first settled in the 1820s. It is a hilly […]
A Boy From Boulder – ‘Honest John’
29/05/2017 By 1 Comment
The Goldfields has the distinction of being the birthplace of a WA Premier. John Trezise Tonkin (known as ‘Honest John”), premier from October 1971 to April 1974, was born at Boulder on the 2nd February 1902 and today (22 April 1989) lays claim to being one of the few WA Labor premiers to be born […]
Remember the Drive In ? – View-Way
28/05/2017 By 6 Comments
The construction of the View-Way Drive in theatre in three months and one day has set an Australian time record and beaten the previous record by 8 days. The managing direction of Drive In Pty Ltd and Ace Group of companies Mr John Pye said in Kalgoorlie yesterday. Mr Pye made a flying visit […]
A Most Determined Suicide – grave tales
27/05/2017 By 1 Comment
While researching the names of all those buried in the Bardoc cemeteries, I came across this following death which I originally through may have been someone buried in Bardoc. Coolgardie Miner (WA : 1894 – 1911), Tuesday 5 March 1895, page 3 What seems to have been a most determined suicide, took place at the […]
