Gullewa Cemetery – Reserve 3911 Coordinates: -28.5507826, 116.3726805 GULLEWA GOLDFIELD – The W.A. Record 27th February 1897 The Gullewa Goldfield is situated N.E. from Mingenew 80 miles, and east of Wurarga on the Mullewa-Cue line, which is the nearest railway station, about 18 miles, and is only one day’s journey by rail from the Port […]
Ashton & Cocks – a furniture emporium
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Coolgardie Pioneer 24 October 1896, page 15 A Furniture Emporium in Coolgardie The above image affords our readers a view of Messrs Ashton and Cocks Furniture Emporium, the principal business of the kind in Coolgardie. which has a frontage of 23ft to Bayley Street and 165 ft in depth. The photographs of the two principals […]
Darcy Uhr’s Bell Bird –
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Smith’s Weekly ‘Sydney’ 19 February 1927, page 21 West Australian pioneers who remember Norman Sligo and Harry Swincer, will be glad to know that Norman is doing well in New Zealand. He is general manager of the Anderson’s Bay quarries at Dunedin. He and Swincer were early on at Mt Magnet and with the Herbert’s […]
Sala Memorial – a father and son
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I’m sure that you will agree that this memorial on the graves of father and son, Nicholas ‘Mick’ SALA and Martin William SALA is a most impressive one. It is in the Roman Catholic section of the Boulder Cemetery. Nicholas ‘Mick or Michael’ SALA was buried on 2nd August 1930 aged 41 years. Cause of […]
Go West and Find Your Mate –
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Sunday Times 9 January 1927, page 24 GO WEST AND FIND YOUR MATE By John Drayton in “Smith’s Weekly” Cattle and sheep run over the site of the old camp of Rolling Stone. In the gold belt between Duketon, WA and the desert. Rolling Stone was the jumping-off place of the pioneers of Eastern discovery. […]
