By: peterschlosser45
4/06/2009
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| If Yoy want to hear of some good old Goldsworthy Stories, come to the next Reunion in October |
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By: litesup3
4/06/2009
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| Hi what years did you attend. Goldsworthy Primary School? |
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By: peterschlosser45
5/06/2009
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I did not go to Goldsworth Primery School.
I was employed as a Fitter/ Machinist in the Loco-Workshop from 1983-1991. |
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By: litesup3
12/06/2009
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Goldworthy wasn't just about the end of the era when you guys came made your money in a place that never knew you existed. Your beating a dead horse cos that place was dead by the time you got there. I'd like it to be remembered for the long standing patrons the first and the last and
the many in between that actually kept the town going in the 70's especially, because without them the town would
not have existed. |
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By: peterschlosser45
12/06/2009
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| WELL SPOKEN. See you at the reunion, or is the reunion only for people, who lived in good old Goldsworthy in the 70th and not after??? |
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By: butlerjohn26
12/06/2009
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| We agree, Goldsworthy in the early 70"s was great, a lot of fun was had and some of the best years of our life we made some life long friends out of it as well |
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By: peaceleo69
13/06/2009
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I believe from readind this thread from the start ;that the reunions etc-are extended to all who lived in Shay Gap and Goldsworthy in the time the towns were running-it seems a really friendly group ;who have been on here in that time.
Seems to be plenty of contact details ;if you read back and want to ask someone. |
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By: litesup3
13/06/2009
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Hi John Bultler was your son Nigel? For the record Nigel was a terrific person always joking and happy. There's no
way to understand why he decided to end his life and no one
would have ever forseen it. He will always be remembered
here. The great unknown takes the best. |
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By: buzzanddidj
14/06/2009
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'Memory is all we have'
THERE was a town named Goldsworthy. It lay in the deep red ranges of the north Pilbara, near where the fitful watercourses of the De Grey and *** gan rivers meet. Behind these mountains, the long, strait dune-corridors of the Great Sandy Desert begin: snake country, full of bloodwood trees and combustible, lemon-yellow spinifex. But where the peaks reach highest, almost within view of the Indian Ocean's shoreline, unusual geological markers can be seen. Even the most cursory of explorers pushing through this country long ago picked up the telltale signs: many of the outcrops they rode past were jet black, looked like fused magma and gave off a metallic sound when struck by horses' hoofs.
As soon as mineral exploration began in earnest in the far northwest, it became plain that Mt Goldsworthy held the world's richest deposits of ferrous ore: the veins ran deep and they were graded as high as 68 per cent. This decided the landscape's fate. In the 1960s, the Pilbara was opened up to mining; Goldsworthy was the first large-scale project. For two decades, 4000 men and women lived there, in a realm of cyclones, flash floods and blazing summer skies -- and many of them, in their imaginings, seem resident there still.
But Goldsworthy no longer exists. It is not a ghost town, or a ruin or even a post-industrial wasteland. It is an ex-place. Great efforts have been devoted to removing all signs of the past. Indeed, a mere handful of out-of-date maps still mark the spot where the town stood and only old-timers can sense the curve in the iron-ore railroad as it passes Goldsworthy on the way out to the mining centre at Shay Gap. So thorough has this act of disappearing been that across the Pilbara, a region where the working population churns at high speed, the majority of today's residents are quite unaware that a large, vivid township once broke the line of the spinifex on the flood plain of the De Grey.
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By: buzzanddidj
14/06/2009
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Continued.....
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867 ,20534283-25132,00.html
A long, but interesting read
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By: butlerjohn26
14/06/2009
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| I don't have a son Nigel, my wife & i both worked at Goldsworthy from early 1971 to mid 1975 |
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By: peterschlosser45
15/06/2009
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Of courese the GML Reunion is for everyone who ever lived there, aspecialy for the people who lived there to the end and tried to keep the place alive. I was a AMWU Organiser until the end and took redundency, like the lot of us.
Goldsworthy and its people will always be in my memory at least once a day.
I loved the place. |
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By: jbcuthbert
15/06/2009
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| Goldsworthy town was for everone, it was a great place to work and meet people no matter what year or how long you stayed there !! Me i have very fond memoireies of the place, i loved it so much that i returned to the town back in the 80s (i am from scotland but could only get a working visa for one year at a time) I have put over 200 photos (so far)on a site (please scroll down the threads) these are for EVERYONE who ever stayed there !! |
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By: mattstratton@y7mail.com
18/06/2009
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| I knew you Ray at The Gap and remember your guitar work at social functions hangis & bbqs (especially the Credence numbers). You probably don't remember me, I was the mine surveyor between 1996 - 1999. Its funny reading all these posts here and how ppl remember how good it was, maybe longing for a misspent youth. LOL |
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By: peterschlosser45
21/06/2009
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| Do you mean Kiwi Ray? I remember Ray when he worked in Goldsworthy in the Track Gang before he transfered to Shay Gap. He plays Guitar very well. |
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By: sistarasta_au
23/06/2009
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Hey I saw Mark Oliver today at the shops, and he told me that in yesterday’s paper there is a reunion notice for GML (all sites).
Details are:
Bayswater Hotel , Railway Pde. Bayswater over the weekend of October 2-4
General enquiries J Nash 9450 1114 janash@westnet.com.au
You can book at the hotel for accommodation or meals (or, stay with me if you are coming from interstate!)
Fwd to all your contacts for this blast from the past...
Meredith Skinner (Shay Gap) sistarasta@hotmail.com |
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By: hide_yosh
26/06/2009
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Hello Meredith - I remember you and your brother during your 'orange' time: and also at the Shay Gap Club (1984)- back bar - I remember Uteka also et al
Ray |
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By: alipanda77
28/06/2009
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| Hi there, does anyone have a copy of a documentary that was televised about the 1983/84 Black Rock Stakes? It was about an hour long, and showed the race quite in depth, with a few snippets of info about the town. I am willing to pay all costs. thanks |
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By: jbcuthbert
28/06/2009
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Hi I dont have a copy of the blackrock stakes, but what i should have (somewhere !!) is a copy of the Goldsworthy wake !! which was on th tv. I also have a few hundred photos on a site called www.friendsreunited.com , there are a number of goldsworthy people keeping in touch through this site !! Scroll down the threads to see how to find them !! I will be posting a lot more photos on that site . All my photos were taken between 1980 and 1983. Take a look you never know you may be in them (or someone you know !!)
All the best from Scotland !
John |
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By: litesup3
1/07/2009
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| You know you so put a dull on the shine of what this town really mean't to people that actually lived there. Not just about the end and the people that passed through and working hard to put it back to nothing. Basically you know nothing about the real Goldsworthy. Boring. |
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By: peaceleo69
3/07/2009
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| I reckon 10 pages of postings; make you ,rather ,the fly in the ointment!! |
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By: peterschlosser45
16/07/2009
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Remember the old Movies?
Escape from Goldsworty and Superman
Nort of the 28th parallel |
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By: scottmuller2020
27/07/2009
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Yes, I remember "Escape from Goldsworthy" and "Superman: The Home Video" (hilarious!). I was telling someone about those, and my memories of growing up in Goldsworthy and Shay Gap, only the other day. I also remember that two of the guys who made those short-films also did a home-spun TV show for the town(s)? (Might've even been broadcast to Hedland, too ... I was only a kid at the time so I don't know the details). I'm trying to remember the name of the '60's pop song that they named that show after, but unfortunately can't.
Anyone remember playing soccer with the Goldsworthy Redbacks? |
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By: amadpom
27/07/2009
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| John - your advice as to where to go to see your 200 photos does not compute - the site has got very clunky and every time I try to find ex Goldsworthy people based in Australia I get the default of Carlisle in the UK and nobody is there! Can you find your way there and then publish the full URL so I can copy and paste? Thanks |
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By: jbcuthbert
28/07/2009
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Hi, I have tried a few diff ways to copy the page but no success, try www.friendsreunited.co.uk then look for john cuthbert (in scotland) at the moment i am the second one in the list. My main photo is a signe pointing towards goldsworthy !! Hope this helps !!
Also i remember ESCAPE FROM GOLDSWORTHY it was a great short film,i think i remember watching it at the club,would love to see it again (wonder if it still exists) |
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