The Countryman 16th Oct 1958 – ARTHUR BENNETT. Bill Faahan’s name creeps into most stories of early Coolgardie days. Bill ran the Club Hotel, he was the town’s mayor in its heyday, and he was known to every prospector east of Southern Cross. One of his many yardmen was a runaway sailor from a ship […]
Patriotic Knitters – Cue
07/06/2015 By 6 Comments
This is an amazing photograph entitled’ Patriotic Knitters’. It was taken in Cue, Western Australia and shows a group of women and children knitting comforts for the WW1 troops. Looks like socks and scarves.
The Matron and the Major – Nurse Annie Jones
06/06/2015 By 8 Comments
In early 1896 Annie Jones from Bendigo Victoria, was nursing in the Government hospital at Cue, Western Australia. While she was recovering from a mild form of typhoid fever, word came by camel train that Mr Magnus Maxton Calder, a member of the firm Calder & Co of Cue, was suffering from typhoid fever in […]
Ghost Town – Gindalbie
03/06/2015 By 2 Comments
Gindalbie – Western Australia Latitude 30 degrees 20’S Longitude 121 degrees 45’E Gindalbie is an abandoned Goldfields townsite located about 55kms north east of Kalgoorlie. In 1898 when it was proposed to establish a town here the name nominated was ‘Vosperton’. This was to honour a well-known Goldfields identity, newspaperman Frederick Charles Burleigh Vosper. He […]
Menzies to Kalgoorlie Bike Race – 1930
01/06/2015 By Leave a Comment
Australia’s Richest Handicap Cycle Race Cycling has been part of the Goldfields since the courier cyclist in the 1890’s carried messages around the Goldfields before the telegraph line came to the region. This year’s Minara Resources Goldfields Cyclassic will continue as a two-stage handicap race across the rich and historic landscape of the Western Australian outback from Kalgoorlie-Boulder to Menzies […]
