Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
Just over a year ago, I was contacted by historian, Maureen Roberts to ask if I could take a photograph of a headstone (if there was one) in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. She had been researching the family of Hubert Lawrence and found he died in … [Continue reading]
I have often mentioned, the regular occurrence, of what you may call 'synchronicity' where two related things come together for no apparent reason. It seems to happen with amazing regularity and I have lost count on how many time I have received an … [Continue reading]
The following story is about a teacher who went from town to town setting up schools for a short time then leaving under a cloud of suspicion. First in Perth in 1892 then to Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie then on to Perth again then Bunbury with the same … [Continue reading]
THE PRIEST AND THE POLICEMAN by Peter Conole (WA Police Historian) (Retired 2013) with permission from the Police Historical Soc @ http://www.policewahistory.org.au/HTML_Pages/Museum.html The above photograph is a fairly well known West … [Continue reading]
The Glass on the Bar Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn, And one of them called for the drinks with a grin; They'd only returned from a trip to the North, And, eager to greet them, the landlord came forth. He absently poured out a … [Continue reading]
