Charles Samuel Rhodes was born in Adelaide in 1868. He attended Prince Alfred College where he was awarded a prize in 1877. He married Louise Adelaide Hawkes & encouraged by the gold rush in the West he moved to Broad Arrow about 1896. His brother in law John Bowbear Hawkes also came to Broad Arrow to mine gold in…
Ravensthorpe is 541 Kilometres S E of Perth and 50 kilometres NW of Hopetoun, on the south coast of WA. The district was first settled by farmers, the Dunn brothers in 1860 but then gold was discovered in the area in 1898 and the region changed dramatically. Consequently, the rush for wealth saw the Phillips River area surveyed and…
There has been great interest in demijohns from this company in recent times. A one gallon Pioneer Aerated Water Company demijohn sold in Toowoomba in February for over $25,000. This bottle is believed to be a “one only” so the lucky Eastern States bidder has added one of WA’s rarest bottles to his large demijohn collection. Also, from this…
Bulong is 32 km’s east of Kalgoorlie and was earlier known as the 25 mile or I.O.U. The town was gazetted in November 1895. By 1900 the town had a number of Residential and Business Lots but a lot of homes were only hessian campsites. The town had 6 hotels, a hospital and a brewery at its peak in…
Richard and Katherine Nettle had 8 children born in South Australia, before the lure of gold in the West saw the family move to Norseman around 1900. Richard was employed as a miner as was his son Charles Harden Nettle born in 1881. Another son John Edward Nettle born in 1892 was a blacksmith in the town by 1914….
John Huxtable Wesley Peryman was born in 1837 at Brixham, Devon, England & arrived in Adelaide, South Australia with his parents about 1848. He married Julia O’Sullivan on 28 Feb 1863 in Adelaide. He worked for the Bank of Adelaide at the time and was also involved with the S A Cavalry and was Captain of the Adelaide Rifle…
Western Australian based group dedicated to the finding and preservation of relics of all sorts.