I had been researching the accidental death of this miner because of an entry I found in the Annual Report from the Department of Mines for 1897 which stated, that a miner called ‘John Madden’ had been killed in an accident on the Goongarrie GM. As this name was not one I had listed I […]
The Doubly Deserted –
24/08/2024 By Leave a Comment
Western Mail 25 December 1905, page 10 The Doubly Deserted by Val Jameson Up in the heavens, a westering sun cast oblique rays, still fiercely hot, on the parched bush that stretched its shrivelled growth as far as the eye could see from the prospectors’ camp. Nearby, a windlass under a roof of boughs stood […]
After the Crushings Over –
24/08/2024 By 1 Comment
After the Crushing’s Over by W Gregory. Our beers cut down, and our creditors frown, And it’s hard to raise a pot, But we’ve worked down hard on me and my pard, And found troubles quite a lot But they’ll soon be o’er, and we’ll pay our score And find ourselves in clover, Get off […]
An Underworld Figure Convicted in Kalgoorlie –
17/08/2024 By 1 Comment
Matilda Mary Devine, an infamous Sydney crime figure known as ‘Tilly Devine’, portrayed in the TV series Underbelly, had links to Kalgoorlie Boulder after being arrested and jailed on the Goldfields. Matilda ‘Tilly” Devine, was born in England in 1900 and became a prominent crime syndicate crime figure involved in sly grog dealing and razor […]
A Man with a Famous Mate – William Cutmore
17/08/2024 By 2 Comments
Back in 1998, I was in correspondence with a lady, Joanne Shumak, who I was assisting to look into the family history of her uncle, William Basham Cutmore, who, if not for a slip of fate, may be a name as familiar to the Goldfields as his famous mate Arthur Bayley. W. B. Cutmore was […]
