Following on from the recent article on the hotels of Broad Arrow I received an email from an OFH reader, John Hanley. His Gt Grandfather James Hanley owned and ran the Exchange Hotel and his family is fortunate in that the original cash book from the hotel has been preserved and passed down through the […]
A Strange Coincidence
06/01/2017 By 6 Comments
Just goes to show that you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the paper (sorry TROVE its not your fault). I was going through a pile of archived newspaper cuttings, collected many years ago, before TROVE existed, and of course I read and checked all the ‘Mine Accidents’. There have in the past only been […]
The story of Joe Hogan
02/01/2017 By Leave a Comment
The following story was told by Jack Drayton, well know in the early Goldfields days as a journalist and a prospector. From the day he arrived in Coolgardie in 1894 Joe Hogan was a “loner”, who never had a mate and never told anyone where he was going, although he always came back to town […]
Black Flag – ghost towns
31/12/2016 By Leave a Comment
BLACK FLAG:- R H Henning and party pegged the Black Flag lease which in October 1894 was reported to be ‘doing very well.’ The property was sold the following year to Lord Sudley’s syndicate for $48,000. By this time men were opening up their claims, many with good results. In December, the following year, there […]
The Brown Hill Extended Catastrophe
29/12/2016 By Leave a Comment
Kalgoorlie Miner 28th August 1903 DOUBLE FUNERAL— The funeral of the two victims of the underground tragedy at the Brown Hill Extended mine, was largely attended yesterday. The body of Samuel Eva was removed from has brothers residence at Maritana Hill, Kalgoorlie, and the procession was joined, opposite the Boulder Post Office, by that following […]
