Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
Place: Coolgardie, Western Australia, 6429 Orientation: 39 km SW of Kalgoorlie Location: RSL Sub-Branch, Cnr Bayley Street and Ford Street, Coolgardie Western Australia Position: 30 57 29S 121 10 13 The polished wooden board remembers … [Continue reading]
Peter Dennis Kavanagh joined the Police Force when he was twenty one. How he crushed the gold stealing industry on the Golden Mile has now gone down in history. He was tutored by that wonderfully astute Excise Inspector – John Mitchell … [Continue reading]
ARTHUR POSTLE “THE CRIMSON FLASH” WORLD CHAMPION ATHLETE Born in 1881 at Springside near Pittsworth in Queensland - Arthur Postle was revered around the globe in the years before World War I as the fastest man alive. He turned professional … [Continue reading]
I entered the cage for the ‘Number Nine’ A trucker paused at the brace to say, As he left the depths of the gloomy mine, A man was killed in the mine today! Then the winder sang as we rushed below, And the plats flashed upwards merrily, And … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
