Outback Family History Reader, Gary Cowans, recently sent in the following wonderful photographs from his PMG collection. They are reproduced with his permission. To build the East-West telegraph Line supplies were dropped off at the nearby Eucla Jetty. Then the Post and Telegraph crews began the job of scaling the nearby sand-hills before following the […]
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 Egan Memorial Bike Race –
01/03/2017 By Leave a Comment
Outback Family History Reader ,Dawn Leitch, very kindly sent in the following photographs which her husband inherited from his parents. The event is the Egan Memorial Bike Race. WESTERN ARGUS (Kalgoorlie, WA: 1916-1938) Tue 12 June 1934 Page 8 Prior to Monday’s great cycle race a dance was held in the Town Hall on the Sunday […]
A Racing Man from Tipperary – grave tales
28/02/2017 By 1 Comment
FATAL MINING ACCIDENT IN THE PERSEVERANCE MINE – MAN FALLS DOWN A PASS. Richard Ryan, a well known citizen of Boulder, met with an instantaneous death in the Great Boulder Perseverance. Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 – 1916), Tuesday 17 March 1908, page 17 On Wednesday 11th March about 9.30 a.m. the deceased and […]
Southern Cross – Update
28/02/2017 By 1 Comment
Outback Family History page for Southern Cross An OFH reader recently contacted me to say that part of the Southern Cross Cemetery register was missing. It only went as far as ‘P’. So today I have devoted the day to fixing the register and working on the data to make it easier to read and […]
The Remarkable Love Life of Beth Maynard
27/02/2017 By 1 Comment
The following story is one of the most unusual I have read for some time. It really does fit into the category of ‘Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales’ The story starts SA and ends in NSW but has a Goldfields link!!! It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author,Annie McKay O’Riley, from […]
