Daily News 28 October 1933, page 4 HOUSE WITH A HISTORY - Never Inhabited QUAINT RELIC OF BOOM DAYS (By J. D. Costello) Perched alone on the lip of a breakaway near the deserted townsite of Kintore on the road from Coolgardie to … [Continue reading]
A Trip Through Kunanalling to Bonnie Vale –
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The Sun 28 June 1903, page 3 A TRIP FROM KUNANALLING TO BONNIE VALE by Cobb. Coming over from Siberia I, put up a night at Kunanalling, and had an opportunity to study the town and its inhabitants. Two or three dismal lights illuminated the … [Continue reading]
Albany Bell – The Confectionary King
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Many Kalgoorlie locals will recognise the building in the photograph below as Tippetts Tea Room at 100 Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie (now the House of Babes). However, before being named Tippetts it was called the Albany Bells Tea Rooms. I had thought … [Continue reading]
Billy Frost – the seeker of shadows
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Western Mail Perth - 16 September 1926, page 19 THE SEEKER - THE LATE BILLY FROST Prospector and Explorer By John Meiklejohn. Round the campfires of the various diggings during the 1890s, no name was more prominent than that of … [Continue reading]
James Shaw – First Mayor of Coolgardie
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James Shaw was born in 1846 in Belfast Ireland, his father was Hugh Shaw, an engineer and his mother was Margaret, they married in Victoria. In 1864, at age 18yrs, James Shaw sailed to Auckland New Zealand where he started a contracting … [Continue reading]
