WARNING:- Graphic content of human remains, this may upset some people. In 1995 Forsyth-Plutonic Gold Mining held the mining lease of an area that included burials at Horseman's Gully near Darlot in the Murchison. Under mining law, it is … [Continue reading]
The Bulletin Hotel – by Henry Lawson
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 … [Continue reading]
On The Golden Trail –
Sunday Times - Perth - 20 July 1930, page 9 On the Golden Trail Guidé to Carnegie in '94-Gus Luck's Early Goldfields Prospecting Experiences Early in November in 1892, two gold hunters, Gus Luck and his mate Jack Burns, out on … [Continue reading]
Kalgoorlie Hospital Admission Records – No 7
The next file is now released: File 36 from 16th March 1914 to 30 Jan 1916 - SEARCH Back in 2005, one of the members of the Goldfields Family History Society who worked at the Kalgoorlie Hospital, told us that all of the original admission … [Continue reading]
The Gregson’s of Bonnivale – a family story
On the 11th Sep 1928 the 'Rainbow Argus' in Rainbow Victoria, reported the death of John Watts Gregson. It said he was a highly respected resident of the town. He was born in Chepstone Victoria in 1871 and was the eldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth … [Continue reading]