Death from Typhoid Fever was common around the turn of the 19th century. Many of the victims were fit young men who could succome to the disease and perish very quickly as this story of a young Police Constable, who had been on the Goldfields less than 6 months, will tell. The following is an […]
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
Too Late to Say Goodbye – Grave Tales
26/10/2016 By 2 Comments
Fri 17th Jul 1942 Kalgoorlie Miner BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED On Warburton Ranges Track – LAVERTON AMBULANCE LONG TRIP About noon yesterday the Laverton ambulance commenced a 200 miles’ trip each way along Warburton Ranges to attend a boy seriously injured when run over by a tractor trailer. The boy is John Wade, a 13 year old […]
A Distinguished Residence – Trove Tuesday
25/10/2016 By 4 Comments
The following photograph is the home of Kyran Brennan, one of the Brennan Brothers who started the well known stores in Boulder and Kalgoorlie. Mr Brennan left town in 1903 due to ill health. This lovely home was on the corner of Ivanhoe and Burt Street, Boulder. Sadly no longer there.
Joseph Salinger – Then and Now
22/10/2016 By Leave a Comment
DEATHS. SALINGER.— On the 29th January, at Nurse Egan’s Private Hospital, Joseph Salinger, late of 61 Cassidy street, Kalgoorlie, aged 41 years. Prayers will be held this (Friday) evening at the Synagogue, at 7o’clock, and each evening during the week at his late residence, opposite Commonwealth Reserve, at 7.30 p.m. Joseph was a well known […]
William Thomas Maddern – Goldfields Hero
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A Goldfield’s Soldier of the Great War – Lance Corporal William Thomas Maddern, MM William Thomas MADDERN was born at Woods Point, Victoria in 1889, the son of William Henry and Isabella (nee Shade) Maddern. At the outbreak of WW1 he was newly married to Evelyn Ann (Crouch) Maddern, they had a young daughter […]
