The Star – Wine and Beer Saloon.

Star Wine and Beer Saloon

The Star Wine and Beer Saloon is the first photograph to be uploaded to the 'Hotels of the Goldfields' project. Im sure that this is one that most will not have heard of or seen before. It was on the location of 37 to 39 Broadarrow Road, … [Continue reading]

Hotels of The Goldfields

Hotel Moving

Some eighteen years ago my late friend, Sandy Duncan, and I started collecting photographs and information on the hotels of the Goldfields of Western Australia.  Although we were collectors of all aspects of Goldfields History, hotels became our … [Continue reading]

Can you help Outback Family History???

  Hi Everyone!  Are any readers 'Booktopia' customers or 'Ancestry.com' members??  When you log on to these pages it would be a huge assistance to Outback Family History if you could log on through the Outback Family History blog … [Continue reading]

Snatched from the Jaws of Death

Western Argus 5th May 1898 LOST IN THE BUSH. FIVE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER. MISS JANECZEK'S AWFUL EXPERIENCE!   Southern Cross seems determined to make a name for itself. Beside those persons interested in the mines in the place, … [Continue reading]

Perth Book Launch – Turning Men Into Stone

For all the readers who don't live in Kalgoorlie-Boulder a second launch of the highly successful book 'Turning Men Into Stone, A Medical and Social History of Silicosis in Western Australia' by Dr Criena Fitzgerald will be held this coming … [Continue reading]