This is a photograph of George Gayford, a prospector, taken about 1935 in Wilina. He died the same year as this photo was taken. He is buried in the Wiluna Cemetery I have always thought this image captures the hard life of the prospector in the early days. How tough must he have been 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
Bridget Delia Oates – grave tales
03/04/2015 By 7 Comments
The following photograph is of the headstone and grave of Bridget Delia Oates, who was the beloved wife of Richard Knight Oates, born in County Clare Ireland on 28 Jan 1873. She died at Kalgoorlie on the 17th Sep 1909 aged 37 years. This photograph was taken just after the headstone, ledger, and grave fencing […]
Mount Magnet – Goldfields Town
02/04/2015 By 3 Comments
Latitude : 28 04 S Longitude : 117 51 E Western Australia Mount Magnet is a townsite in the Murchison goldfields, 569 km north east of Perth and 126 km east of Yalgoo. Gold was discovered in the Mount Magnet area in July 1891 by the prospectors George Woodley and Tom Sampey. By late 1893 […]
Theo BOCK – Goldfields Hero
28/03/2015 By Leave a Comment
Theo Bock son of T.Bock of the Boulder City Brewery.
YUNNDAGA – Ghost Town
28/03/2015 By 3 Comments
A New town has been added to the main site. Yunndaga. A small town about 7 kms South of Menzies. This photograph is of the staff of the Menzies Consolidated Gold Mine 1916, taken when the town was called Woolgar. www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au YUNNDAGA From:- Landgate http://bit.ly/1a1zrnQ Latitude 29° 45′ S Longitude 121° 03′ E […]
