OLD-TIMER’S LETTER – Employee in First Post Office in Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie Miner 17 May 1950, page 2 Mr. Lionel J. Dudley, an old-timer, sent an interesting account of some of his experiences in the early days of the goldfields to Mr. J. D. Teahan, Mayor of Boulder. Once an employee in the first post […]
East-West Telegraph Line -Eucla
01/03/2017 By 5 Comments
Outback Family History Reader, Gary Cowans, recently sent in the following wonderful photographs from his PMG collection. They are reproduced with his permission. To build the East-West telegraph Line supplies were dropped off at the nearby Eucla Jetty. Then the Post and Telegraph crews began the job of scaling the nearby sand-hills before following the […]
The Egan Memorial Bike Race –
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Outback Family History Reader ,Dawn Leitch, very kindly sent in the following photographs which her husband inherited from his parents. The event is the Egan Memorial Bike Race. WESTERN ARGUS (Kalgoorlie, WA: 1916-1938) Tue 12 June 1934 Page 8 Prior to Monday’s great cycle race a dance was held in the Town Hall on the Sunday […]
A Racing Man from Tipperary – grave tales
28/02/2017 By 1 Comment
FATAL MINING ACCIDENT IN THE PERSEVERANCE MINE – MAN FALLS DOWN A PASS. Richard Ryan, a well known citizen of Boulder, met with an instantaneous death in the Great Boulder Perseverance. Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 – 1916), Tuesday 17 March 1908, page 17 On Wednesday 11th March about 9.30 a.m. the deceased and […]
Southern Cross – Update
28/02/2017 By 1 Comment
Outback Family History page for Southern Cross An OFH reader recently contacted me to say that part of the Southern Cross Cemetery register was missing. It only went as far as ‘P’. So today I have devoted the day to fixing the register and working on the data to make it easier to read and […]
