By: hide_yosh
6/03/2009
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Hi again Taffy
That was Shay Gap I was talking about. Remember the crooner Charlie Joslan (the bus driver)and union delegate
Ray (Kiwi) |
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By: peaceleo69
7/03/2009
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| wow kingsmill-bet you never thought this would hit 200 and still be running ;when you posted it! |
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By: regmate
9/03/2009
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I also worked at shay gap in the truck shop and sometimes in the 62 crew only for 2 years but this was considered the norm back in the eighties.
Some of the best years of my life |
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By: thescotts80
16/03/2009
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It was a brilliant town full of wonderful colourful people who made living and working in Goldsworthy so much fun.
I did my apprenticeship there along with my brother and Dad worked in train control. Hope you all come along to the reunion in October! |
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By: thescotts80
16/03/2009
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| Just a note to add to the last one mum used to work at MTN Mining television Network, any one remember that! She also ran the Blackrock Stakes with her mate, not once but a few times. I played with the Rookies Softball team and learnt how to drink while playing at the back of the wet mess......mmmm thoise were the days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 |
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By: jeffreypiefke
19/03/2009
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| hi out there jeffrey piefke son of kevin and lyn i do remember and as a kid you we couldn't for ask for a better life.How times have changed 80 mile will have a 5 starr hotel there in the near future and that will be the end of the good old day so we were lucky ha piffa |
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By: jeffreypiefke
19/03/2009
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| hi out there jeffrey piefke son of kevin and lyn i do remember and as a kid we couldn't for ask for a better life.How times have changed 80 mile will have a 5 starr hotel there in the near future and that will be the end of the good old day so we were lucky ha piffa |
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By: oz_taipan
20/03/2009
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| I just stumbled acorss this old bunch of messages. I pretty much grew up in Paraburdoo (from 3-12) and used to love going to the mess on Sundays as a kid. I left there in 83 and to this day I still miss the area and sadly I have been been able to go back for a visit. |
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By: crispycritter@ymail.com
22/03/2009
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| G'day, I remember Goldsworthy. I was born in Port Hedland hospital and lived in Goldsworthy untill 1987. Mt Goldsworthy was last operated in 1982 and the town shutdown about 10 or so years after that. Shay Gap was closed only a few years after that. |
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By: crispycritter@ymail.com
22/03/2009
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| My mother also worked at the TV station for a while :) |
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By: crispycritter@ymail.com
22/03/2009
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| Hey Piefke, how are ya. It's Jason Fong, I hear your still wporking for ROBE? I'm at West Angelas. |
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By: ejconnell@btinternet.com
26/03/2009
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Hi All!
Have very clear memories of Goldsworthy, especially the Black Rock Stakes - me and my sister (Emma and Sara Partridge) both took part in the Flying Fleas team, along with Gab, Todd, Shelley and lots of other people, whose names escape me. Clearing out my dad's flat the other day and found a lot of photos of the team and an essay we had to write at school about the race.
Now living in UK, get asked a lot what life was like in Australia and it's always fun to see their faces when you tell them about the blackrock stakes!!
Any other Flying Fleas out there? |
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By: jbcuthbert
31/03/2009
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Gidday !! All you goldsworthy folk !!
I worked in goldsworthy in the 1980s and took hundreds of photos ! I have just put a 110 of them (and there are hundreds more to come !)on a site called www.friendsreunited.com just search in the part where it says work places. Some of the photos include - the pool,flying fleas,power house,haulpacks,the mine,workshops,golf course ,trains and 80 mile beach !! You never know you or someone you know may be in some of the photos ! It was sad when i heard that they took everything including the roads away, i was hoping to come over(i stay in scotland) and at least see something left ! If anyone wants a copy of any of these photos please email me through the site and i will email you a full size copy. Enjoy my memories !
john |
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By: peterschlosser45
15/04/2009
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Hi Chrissy
Good to hear from you after so long. Are you going to the reunion this year?
Let me know and we meet when I come down from Darwin. |
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By: peterschlosser45
16/04/2009
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Hallo to you all who still rember me as Fritz, The Lord Mayor of Warralong.
I have been living and working in Darwin for the last decade and only ran into a few ex Goldsworthy people up here as in: Jimbo(Boilermaker from Shay Gap), Peggy,
Trevor and Giane Beckman, Shane Helmrich, Chrissy McCracken and Bob Ashfield who past away a few years ago.
Sad to hear that Little Lofty past away as so many others.
I went for a short trip to Perth and port Hedland about a month ago when I caught up with Janine Howard and Dacron sons in Perth and Bob Ridly at Hedland Airport.
I also keep in touch with Peter Hawk, Ernie and Maria Sincialla and Alf and Barryl Jordan through x-mass cards.
Goldswothy comes always back in my memories and I spent the best time of my life there.
Lets all get together in October.
Love you all, Fritz
P.S. Is anyone able to get a copy of the book: My Balloons fly over Goldsworthy? You can also e-mail me at work: peter.schlosser@nt.gov.au |
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By: lyndal_2004
26/04/2009
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| Hi There, me and my hubby live in port hedland and we went out for a drive and saw the goldsworthy mine. It looks so pretty with the water in it now. Just wondering a bit about the history of the mine, why did it close down? Also, i see people talking of a township, how do you get to the township and also to Shay Gap? |
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By: butlerjohn26
26/04/2009
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| replying to jeffrey piefke msg, knew your parents very well, used to babysit you when we lived in goldsworthy in 1971-1975. remember when your dad when he crossed over from rugby league to aussie rules, give your parents our regards, kaye & john butler from tasmania |
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By: peaceleo69
27/04/2009
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both Shay Gap and Goldsworthy town buildings were carted away and the sites rehabilitated when the mines closed-that is part of the govt deal for allowing mines to open.
Read back on the thread and you will get a lot more info. |
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By: jbcuthbert
5/05/2009
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Hi !! I have just uploaded 200 photos of goldsworthy on www.friendsreunited.com (and i will upload more when i get time !!) They should bring back some memories for some of the great folk that used to work there !!
Kind regards john |
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By: peterschlosser45
6/05/2009
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Hi John,
How long did you work in Goldsworthy to have so many photos?
On what link do you go to view these photos as I tried several times?
Regards,
Fritz |
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By: jbcuthbert
6/05/2009
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Hi I was there in 1980 for a year then again in 1982 for another year ! Go to www.friendsreunited.com (you may have to register but ther are quite a few people who worked in goldsworthy there) search for goldsworthy west austalia in the part that says places then look for me john cuthbert . I have had a few people who i have known when i worked there been in touch.The reason i have so many photos is that am a very keen photographer !!
Hope you manage to see the photos and if so get back to me and let me know what you think !
Cheers
john cuthbert |
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By: peterschlosser45
7/05/2009
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| Some very nice photoes there John. I will put all mine on the same website on the weekend.1983-1991 |
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By: jbcuthbert
7/05/2009
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HI ! Glad you liked them , you can add me as a friend on www.friendsreunited.com and they will email you as soon as i put some more on or if anyone-else joins the goldsworthy site !! I look forward to seeing your photos, i really miss the place, i was hopeing to come over to aussie (i stay in scotland)in the next year or so and go and visit the old town but on doing some research i see they have taken everything away !I had some great times at 80 mile beach and the degray river and not to mention dozens of other places !!
Take care
john |
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By: peterschlosser45
10/05/2009
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| Has anybody ever heared anything what Peter Larkins is up to these days? He used to be an Electrical TA. |
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By: rc_wltn
3/06/2009
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| I was employed by Utah Mining & Construction in 1965/67/68 building the Mt Goldsworthy Minesite and DeGray River Bridge and rail line from Port Hedland to Mine site.Thursday Islanders laying track, beat world record for laying Rail Line in shortest time.Later employed by Bechtel Pacific on Mt Newman Rail project and at Finucane Island. Good memories of those days. |
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