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, Kalgoorlie and could possibly be part of the […]
Hotels of The Goldfields
26/05/2016 By 10 Comments
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 personal project. Sandy would look after the Kalgoorlie and Boulder hotels and I would do the ‘Other’ […]
Snatched from the Jaws of Death
22/05/2016 By 1 Comment
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, nobody scarcely knew of this town, in the barren desert of West Australia. Then it […]
Perth Book Launch – Turning Men Into Stone
21/05/2016 By 1 Comment
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 Friday. Everyone is welcome, if you could RSVP for catering purposes:- RSVP by 25th May […]
Speeds Criterion Hotel – Kalgoorlie
18/05/2016 By Leave a Comment
The Criterion happily is still quite recognisable from this photograph taken not long after its completion in 1901. It was built in 1900 on the former premesis of the ‘Universary Wine Saloon’ also owned by Charles Speed. You will see from the article below that the builder was also responsible for the Municipal Markets, The […]
