With our state borders closed and people being quarantined, we try to imagine what it would be like being forced to stay in a quarantine cam

This is the story of Domeyers unsuccessful expedition in the summer of 1930 to find the infamous Lasseter's Reef of Gold.

The following article was written by Norma King based on interviews she had with Eva Bensley. This is the first time it has been published. My name is Eva Be...

Interview with Bill Allen, about his life in Wiluna and Kalgoorlie from the 1920's.

Norma King wrote the following article based on an interview she had with Jim Kelly in the 1970s. I was eleven and a half pounds when I was born and it was a...

Phyllis McMillan, who was born in 1902, was President Hoover's God-daughter. She is reminiscing with historian Norma King about her life.

I came across an amusing letter from Brian Paddick to Norma King with regards to her book on the Kalgoorlie Miner she was researching. ["The Voice of the Gol...

By Norma King, first published June 1980 When an elderly man or woman loses a life partner it can be a traumatic experience and leave a gap difficult to fill...

Big Bell - what memories the name of that town brings back to those who once lived there! To some, it has nostalgic thoughts of homes left b

Ted and Colleen Heaton brought camels back to Coolgardie in 1977 and a few months later Peter Holmes walked into Kalgoorlie-Boulder with his camels. They beg...

For about sixty-six years, the Sons of Gwalia mine supported the population of the town of Gwalia a and Leonora which was three kilometres away. In 1936, ap...

The All Nations Hotel in Kalgoorlie was associated with two race riots in Kalgoorlie. This article looks at its history

The discovery of the Golden Eagle at the beginning of 1931 stirred men's imaginations and gave them hope in the dark days of the Depression.

There was very little violence involving fire-arms during the infancy of the eastern goldfields and nothing resembling the gun-happy American Wild West. It w...

By 1910 most of the excitement had gone out of mining in the eastern goldfields. Many of the rich mines had petered out while those that survived were provid...

In 1907 Varischetti was entombed underground in a mine in Western Australia for 9 days. Brave divers visited him daily to keep him alive.

Amusing history on the celebrations Japanese locals arranged in Kalgoorlie and Boulder in 1905 after the fall of Port Arthur in the Russo-Ja

The following piece is taken from an article Norma King typed up (before she had a photocopier or computer!) from the Weekend News Supplement, September 1967...

For Part 1 Jean soon discovered that housekeeping at the Lime Kilns was a lot different to what she had been used to in the city. Her stores, brought out fro...

By Norma King "My God! Where have I landed myself?" Jean Zuvela said this was her first thought when she arrived at the Lime Kilns near Naretha on the Trans-...