Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
Coolgardie Miner 6 February 1911, page 3 DEATH OF ANDREW BARR AN IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL Few men in Coolgardie were better known and respected than Andrew Barr, and when the news was circulated early on Saturday that he had gone to his … [Continue reading]
Western Mail - Perth 24 December 1936, page 16 THE PROSPERITY OF SOUTHERN CROSS THE NEW TOWN HALL OPENED SOUTHERN CROSS was in a gala mood last Wednesday. The cause of many arrangements, official and festive, was the opening of a … [Continue reading]
Sun Sunday 21 June 1908, page 9 THE WIDOW WHO SUED! THEN, BREACH O' PROMISE SUITED THE MAN. An Ex Kalgoorlie Barmaid the Plaintiff (Margaret Augusta Elizabeth BRIDGELAND) and an Ex -Publican of Boulder Block the … [Continue reading]
It is a far cry from Coolgardie to Corbie in the Somme Valley in France. Still, in 1916, a Salvation Army Chaplin, Benjamin Orames, who as a boy had been on the Goldfields of Coolgardie, found himself in Corbie seeking the town mayor who he located … [Continue reading]
St Ives AKA Ives Find Cemetery (no headstones) Reserve 18492 (Cancelled in 1991) on the Gold Fields St Ives Mine Site (not accessible without permission from mine) DOUGLAS William – d about 12 Aug 1933, 69 yrs, a half a mile west of St Ives Hotel, … [Continue reading]
