Fancy Dress: I think that ‘Fancy’ is the wrong description for these young women. They are called ‘The Mermaids’ and I am sure you will agree they are just beautiful. Taken in Kalgoorlie in 1907 Mirror – Perth – 1 June 1907, page 18 St. John of God’s Hospital Ball, Kalgoorlie By Aura […]
Jack The Ripper on the Goldfields???
15/06/2014 By 8 Comments
Deeming a Goldfields Murderer? ……. Or was he really ‘Jack the Ripper’? This black hearted Englishman caused mass hysteria in the streets of Perth and Melbourne and began with his arrest by two West Australian police troopers at Southern Cross for the brutal pick axe murder of his newly wed bride. It brought Perth […]
Violence, Murder, and Dispossession – The Human Cost of the Australian Gold Rush
22/04/2014 By Leave a Comment
Contributor of the week – Violence, Murder, and Dispossession – The Human Cost of the Australian Gold Rush – By Outback Family History reader Jenni Hodge Rushing for gold makes a few individual fortunes, and breaks the hearts and lives of many more. While it is undoubtedly true that, on a larger level, the Australian […]
The Tea and Sugar Train
29/03/2014 By 1 Comment
This is a fascinating short film on the ‘Tea And Sugar Train’ made by the Commonwealth Film Unit 1954. Once a week the Tea and Sugar Train leaves Port Augusta and heads west along the Nullarbor with all the supplies needed by the track maintenance workers and their families that live along the route. Everything […]
Isaac Goss – A Christian Man in Every Sense – Grave tales
15/03/2014 By 1 Comment
Issac William Goss Undertaker This is one of my favourite photographs. It is of the Goss family taken at their home in Piesse Street, Boulder in 1910. The family was well known for their Undertakers business in Piesse Street, Boulder. Many of the headstones in our local cemeteries have their maker’s name on them. This […]
