Police Honour Legendary Aboriginal Tracker. On the 2nd Jul 2008 a memorial was unveiled in Kalgoorlie for one of the state’s most renowned Aboriginal police trackers. Johnny Grey, also known as Pannican, who was considered one of the best trackers of his time. He worked for the police in the Laverton-Leonora area from 1942 to […]
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 Bulletin Hotel – by Henry Lawson
18/01/2017 By 5 Comments
I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand Which, I’m told is very tony – and its front looks very grand And somehow fell a-thinking of a pub I know so well Of a place in West Australia called The Bulletin Hotel Just a little six-room shanty built of corrugated tin […]
The Great Beer Strike of 1903 – Victory!!!!
16/01/2017 By Leave a Comment
BEER STRIKE AT MT MORGANS VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS. Kalgoorlie Western Argus: 14 July 1903. – A correspondent, telegraphing under yesterday’s date from Mt. Morgans, states: A fierce and decisive battle has been fought in this town, the contest lasting exactly 48 hours. The miners, led by Captain Frampton, held a meeting on Friday night […]
The Killer Cyclone of ’28’
15/01/2017 By Leave a Comment
RAVAGED GOLDFIELDS TOWNS Cyclone Claims Child Victim. PREMIER CAUGHT IN STATION WRECK Total Damage Estimated at £150,000 Albany Advertiser 14th Feb 1928 – Sent hurtling through the air by the fury of the cyclone that devastated the goldfields towns on Friday, a sheet of iron struck down six year old Violet Guy, of 198 Piesse […]
Death on the Woodline
15/01/2017 By 1 Comment
It wasn’t only working on the mines that was a dangerous occupation but working on the wood lines, was also marred with frequent accidents. This article is about a well know wood cutter “Ilija Radunovich’ who was killed in a terrible accident at Lakewood. Ilija ws a married man of 45yrs whose wife, Kece, and […]
