Can You Help?? Mystery Hotel These photographs belong in a series of shots that depict the damage in a cyclone on 10th Feb 1928 in Kalgoorlie Boulder. The first photograph (hotel on the corner) is the Terminus Hotel (later to become the Golden Eagle) in Boulder but the second hotel is a puzzle. I just […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
Tin Dog Hut – Bulong
05/10/2014 By 1 Comment
This photo was taken over 20yrs ago by my good friend Roger Garwood and is pictured in his book ‘Off Like Flies’ I have been out four times to see it over the last 20 yrs and the last time I went with Roger and my friend Charley Nadin who’s book Fields of Gold by Charley […]
The ‘Eight Hours’ Demonstration 1900 to 1914
28/09/2014 By 1 Comment
Kalgoorlie Western Argus 24 May 1904, page 23 The image above is of the annual ‘Eight Hour’ Demonstration. Labour’s annual holiday from 1900 to 1914. These processions were very popular both with the various trades who constructed floats to showcase examples of their trades and the local public who came to watch. Thousands of people […]
Trafalgar Second Rate Football Club – Premiers 1910
26/09/2014 By 3 Comments
For all the football fans out there in celebration of the Football Grand Final Weekend 27th Sept 2014. You may notice some names that are still well known about town today. Studio group portrait of Trafalgar Second Rate Football Club, Premiers 1910. Front Row: W Meyers, S Brown, J Condon (Umpire), H Eddy, J Wallace, […]
Goldfields Nurses 1941
26/09/2014 By Leave a Comment
A group of Goldfields Nurses taken in 1941 outside 121 Maritana Street, Kalgoorlie, some with bicycles and two ambulances. In the background are the offices of Elder Smith and Co and Burketts Agents. These building are very much unchanged today.
