Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
From Gold to Milking Cows A story of a young life on a dairy farm in the Goldfields by Helen Astrand nee Pollard The late 1890s saw John James POLLARD, born 1877 in Moonta in South Australia, travel from SA to Malcolm in the Northern Goldfields of … [Continue reading]
Daily News Perth 23 December 1933, page 18 Mrs Aeneas Gunn's Epic Story of an Australian Bush Christmas 'There never was such a Christmas as the Christmas on the Elsey Station, and there never will be another like it,' said 'The … [Continue reading]
I was recently contacted by Gail and Arthur Peters who told me a wonderful story about their Cunningham ancestors on the Goldfields. The following is part of an article formerly written for the EG Historical Soc, and now is re-published here with the … [Continue reading]
I was recently sent this wonderful photograph of John Lord Hinde's Chemist shop in Coolgardie by Nanette Danks who tells me: My great-grandparents arrived in Coolgardie, I presume about 1894. The family legend is that Daisy Hinde (Alice Georgina, … [Continue reading]
Pinjin is a small goldfield surrounding the present-day Pinjin pastoral station homestead. It is 166 kilometres north-east of Kalgoorlie via Kurnalpi, or about 220 kilometres south-east of Menzies via Kookynie. Pinjin is named after a nearby … [Continue reading]
