These days most local residents expect airconditioned houses and cars and an annual holiday as a matter of course, but this was far from the life that confronted Millicent Rose Starr for most of her life. She was born in 1910 in the Gold Mining Town of Mt Morgans as Millicent Rose Buckman. Young Rose came […]
Six Boulder Sons Enlisted For World War II – The Renton Family
11/11/2016 By 8 Comments
The following is a story submitted by one of the OFH readers, Julie Clift nee Renton, about her family and is published with her kind permission:- The Reynolds family was one of the early Pioneering families that arrived In the Goldfields in 1897 and today there are still descendants living here. Francis Emma RENTON nee: REYNOLDS […]
The Cable Family – book review
06/11/2016 By 5 Comments
I was recently kindly sent a copy of the book written by Terry Mann on the family history of the Cable family of Western Australia. I am sure that lots of you would have heard of the name before. Terry is to be commended on the thorough research she has conducted into this very detailed […]
CARRYING OVER-WEIGHT – a verse
03/11/2016 By Leave a Comment
Following on from the story on the annual Bricknells Picnic I came across this poem about the ‘performance or lack of, in the Married Ladies Race’. The Sun 4 Oct 1908 Carrying Over Weight An After Dinner Sheffield From the Bricknell Bros Picnic: The event contested immediately after the fine spread had been done justice to […]
Constable Edward Tindall – Grave Tales
29/10/2016 By 1 Comment
Death from Typhoid Fever was common around the turn of the 19th century. Many of the victims were fit young men who could succome to the disease and perish very quickly as this story of a young Police Constable, who had been on the Goldfields less than 6 months, will tell. The following is an […]
