Life for a single woman on the Goldfields of Western Australia could be very hard. Annie Solly seems to have been a young woman who could look after herself and she appeared in the newspapers several times for things such as drunk and disorderly. On New Years Day 1902 she was arrested and charged 10 […]
The McKerrow Brothers – grave tales
08/09/2018 By Leave a Comment
This is a grave in the Kalgoorlie cemetery of two brothers, Frank James McKERROW who was buried 15 Jul 1896 and James McKERROW who was buried 1 May 1931. This first photograph, taken 87 yrs ago, after the funeral of James McKerrow, and shows the chapel (now the office) in a different location to where […]
George Edward HARRISON – grave tales
28/12/2017 By Leave a Comment
Several years ago I was sent the following two photographs by Lucy Hamilton. She was trying to find out how her Great uncle, George Harrison, had died. She had thought it was from a mining accident. However this doesn’t appear to be the case. It is most unusual, but I have not been able to […]
The Lakeside Tragedy – grave tales
18/12/2017 By Leave a Comment
Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 – 1950), Saturday 6 May 1922, page 5 As far as can be ascertained, no one actually witnessed the accident which resulted in George Lyall Luscombe, aged 19yrs, losing his life by being run over by a wood train on the Lakeside line, near the 52-mile siding, at 5.30 a.m. […]
Richard Henry ‘Dick’ Ryan – grave tales
12/08/2017 By Leave a Comment
Westralian Worker (Perth, WA : 1900 – 1951), Friday 20 March 1908, page 8 The Perseverance Accident. The Boulder Branch has lost yet another of its members bv fatal accident. this time at the Perseverance mine. Richard Ryan, who has been in the Union for a number of years, was killed by falling against some […]
