On the 6th November 1911 little Dorothea Ruby Olive WRAIGH, age 9yrs, passed away in the Infectious Disease Hospital in Kalgoorlie. Exactly a week later her little brother Alwyn George WRAIGHT, aged 7mth, also died. They are buried together in the Boulder Cemetery. Dorothea was born in Coolgardie on the 20th Nov 1902 to George […]
Its all Fair !!!
19/03/2018 By Leave a Comment
As we come up to the annual Community Fair on the 23rd and 24th March I thought it might be nice to look at some old photos of past fairs. This photo is from my own family album, taken about 1966 and shows my husband, Norm Sharp, back row far left with his brother, sisters […]
Deaths Registered in the Yilgarn 1894-1895
15/03/2018 By 2 Comments
Early Goldfields Deaths 1894-1895 Registered in the Yilgarn District (Southern Cross) but died elsewhere. In the early days of the Western Australian Goldfields it took a number of years for Registrars to be appointed to the new towns as they were established. Southern Cross was the nearest point for the registration of any Birth Death […]
Sam Pearce- an extraordinary miner
10/03/2018 By 6 Comments
This story has been written and is reproduced with the kind permission of the author – Chris Morgan. Acknowledgements: I am appreciative for the help freely given by many in locating and providing information and their encouragement to pursue this investigation. In particular I thank Scott Wilson and the staff of the Eastern Goldfields Historical […]
The Great Goldfields Flood of 1948 – a verse
21/02/2018 By 1 Comment
The heaviest rainfall in Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s history occurred 70 years ago—during the weekend of Saturday-Sunday the 21st and 22nd of February 1948. Nearly 300 millimetres of rain fell in less than 36 hours, causing widespread flooding and severe property damage. A massive clean-up operation followed. It was nature’s kind of anger, a weekend of solid rain […]
