This photograph which is one of many Goldfields photographs belonging to the ‘Mincham Family Photos’ collection and shows Eliza Mincham seated outside her home (left) with a friend and their children (and dog). Eliza was to have four children all born at Bonnievale before she and her husband Charles Stephen Mincham left in 1907 and moved […]
Titanic Sinks – How the Goldfields Heard!!!
14/04/2015 By 1 Comment
On the 14th April 1912, 103 yrs ago today the SS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. The following is a copy of the newspaper article from the 16th April 1912 from the Kalgoorlie Miner and describes how the people of the Goldfields of Western Australia were first told of the tragedy. WHITE STAR LINER […]
Dan Shea – Discovered Gold With Paddy Hannan
10/04/2015 By 5 Comments
Dan Shea Headstone : 12-November-2011 Photographs supplied by Derek Graham Memorial headstone in memory of prospector Dan Shea who discovered gold with Paddy Hannan in Kalgoorlie. Dan Shea was born in County Cork, Ireland, and emigrated in 1868 to prospect on the goldfields of Australia and New Zealand. He teamed up with Paddy Hannan and Tom Flanagan […]
Peter Dennis KAVANAGH – Police Officer
07/04/2015 By 1 Comment
Peter Dennis Kavanagh joined the Police Force when he was twenty one. How he crushed the gold stealing industry on the Golden Mile has now gone down in history. He was tutored by that wonderfully astute Excise Inspector – John Mitchell Christie. He was a born detective, keen and shrewd, with boundless energy. He was also […]
George GAYFORD, Prospector – grave tales
05/04/2015 By Leave a Comment
This is a photograph of George Gayford, a prospector, taken about 1935 in Wilina. He died the same year as this photo was taken. He is buried in the Wiluna Cemetery I have always thought this image captures the hard life of the prospector in the early days. How tough must he have been to […]
