Suppliment to the Kalgoorlie Miner 22 april 1989:- The closure of the Hannans Brewery in Brookman Street, Kalgoorlie, had many resident crying in their beer. The future of the local brewery was put in doubt in the late 1970‘s when beer drinkers developed a taste for the Swan Breweries, Emu Export Lager, but Paddy Hannans namesake […]
Richard Henry ‘Dick’ Ryan – grave tales
12/08/2017 By Leave a Comment
Westralian Worker (Perth, WA : 1900 – 1951), Friday 20 March 1908, page 8 The Perseverance Accident. The Boulder Branch has lost yet another of its members bv fatal accident. this time at the Perseverance mine. Richard Ryan, who has been in the Union for a number of years, was killed by falling against some […]
The Spain and Powell Family Album
05/08/2017 By 1 Comment
We are fortunate that we are able to see these wonderful photographs taken in Kalgoorlie in the 1940-50’s. Many of you may remember the Spain and Powell families! I would like to thank David Spain for allowing me to share these and they are also courtesy of Davids late parents – Beryl Anne Spain (nee […]
Coolgardie Pioneer Cemetery
05/08/2017 By 3 Comments
Southern Cross Times 3 October 1903, page 2 THE OLD COOLGARDIE CEMETERY.—There are 33 graves in the old cemetery where the ceremony of unveiling a tablet took place (says the “Coolgardie Miner”). Of these the names of only six of those whose bodies were interred there are known. Most of the burials in fact nearly […]
The Hahnel Family – by Davina Dodds
04/08/2017 By 1 Comment
Charles Bernhardt Hahnel was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany in 1866 to Parents Charles August Hahnel and Theresa Schmidt. Charles came to Australia in 1886, boarding the ship Salier in Antwerp, Belgium. Charles was 20 at this time. On the sixth of December 1890, Charles married Hannah Gribble (born Maryborough 1871) in Timor Victoria. His […]
