The West Australian East Murchison goldfields of the 1890s was a dry and inhospitable place. Far from any kind of civilization, unbelievably hot in the summer and dry as dust all year round. The trackless wilderness around what was to become Lawlers and Agnew first felt the tread of hob nailed boots in the year […]
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 Death of Stephen Grace –
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Western Mail Perth -19 October 1907, page 16 AN EAST MURCHISON TRAGEDY THE DEATH OF STEPHEN GRACE – MURDERED BY NATIVES A telegram was received this afternoon from Constable Walker, who proceeded from Wiluna to bury the body of Stephen Grace, one of Kirkpatrick Bros party of prospectors who was speared through the chest by […]
Bulong – A Goldfields Town
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I would like to take this opportunity to show you some photographs which I have only just seen for the first time myself of the town and people of Bulong and to tell you a brief history. For some reason there are not a great number of photographs around of Bulong so I hope that you […]
Kalgoorlie Electric Tramways
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This is the emblem on the honor board held at the Eastern Goldfields Transport Board depot (The Car Barn) on Boulder Road, formerly called the Kalgoorlie Electric Tramways. These are the employees named on the board who fought in WW1. W Morley (KIA), E Landquist (KIA), S Pearson, J McCleery, J […]
Rest In Peace – Kalgoorlie Cemetery
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I short while ago I posted a photograph I took in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery of the grave of a baby where the memorial on the grave was the actual babies cot. This photo, also in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, is on a single plot where the same symbolism has been used but this ‘bed’ has been […]
