Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
For many long term residents we may all have heard of the odd old mine shaft opening up in someones backyerd after a big rain storm. There have even been a couple I have seen in the middle of the road (both in Boulder). However there are many old … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
