Too Late to Say Goodbye – Grave Tales

Fri 17th Jul 1942 Kalgoorlie Miner BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED On Warburton Ranges Track  – LAVERTON AMBULANCE LONG TRIP About noon yesterday the Laverton ambulance commenced a 200 miles’ trip each way along Warburton Ranges to attend a boy seriously injured when run over by a tractor trailer. The boy is John Wade, a 13 year old […]

A Distinguished Residence – Trove Tuesday

The following photograph is the home of Kyran Brennan, one of the Brennan Brothers who started the well known stores in Boulder and Kalgoorlie. Mr Brennan left town in 1903 due to ill health. This lovely home was on the corner of Ivanhoe and Burt Street, Boulder. Sadly no longer there.

Joseph Salinger – Then and Now

DEATHS.  SALINGER.— On the 29th January,  at Nurse Egan’s Private Hospital,  Joseph Salinger, late of 61 Cassidy street, Kalgoorlie, aged 41 years. Prayers will be held this (Friday) evening at the Synagogue, at 7o’clock, and each evening during the week at his late residence, opposite Commonwealth Reserve, at 7.30 p.m. Joseph was a well known […]

Watch Where You Walk !!!

For many long term residents we may all have heard of the odd old mine shaft opening up in someones backyerd after a big rain storm. There have even been a couple I have seen in the middle of the road (both in Boulder). However there are many old shafts within the city centre which […]

William Thomas Maddern – Goldfields Hero

A Goldfield’s Soldier of the Great War –    Lance Corporal William Thomas Maddern, MM  William Thomas MADDERN was born at Woods Point, Victoria in 1889, the son of William Henry and Isabella (nee Shade) Maddern.  At the outbreak of WW1 he was newly married to Evelyn Ann (Crouch) Maddern, they had a young daughter […]