A personal account of one of Australia’s best-known mining engineers. He writes about his early association with Gold Mines of Australia Limited, and the formation in 1933 of Western Mining Corporation Limited. The book recalls the exciting days of the finding and proving of bauxite deposits in the Darling range, the formation of Alcoa of […]
A Lost Glitter – book review
10/09/2018 By 3 Comments
A Lost glitter : letters between South Australia and the Western Australian goldfields, 1895-1897 – edited by Michael R. Best. A Lost Glitter is the most richly detailed first-hand account of goldfields’ life we have: The letters of the Deland family between the Western Australian goldfields and Gawler contrast the rumbustious, economically chancy, life of […]
Bailie Bros Union Bakery –
09/09/2018 By 4 Comments
Weekly Times, Melbourne VIC, 10 September 1898 Bailie Bros Bakers – KALGOORLIE. The large business now being conducted by the Messrs Bailie Bros, at Kalgoorlie, affords a striking instance of the success which perseverance and hard work, added to personal popularity, can attain in a comparatively new gold mining town. Prior to […]
The Club Hotel – Coolgardie hotels
09/09/2018 By 1 Comment
When Bill Faahan was granted one of the four Wayside licences in April 1893, he erected the first hotel – a rough shelter of bush timber and hessian with a bar consisting of series of packing cases on forked sticks – which he called the Club Hotel. The first load of beer and spirits brought […]
The Remarkable Potter Sisters – a family story
07/09/2018 By Leave a Comment
I was recently contacted by Dorothy Maude Rodoreda (nee McMeikan). She told me of her very interesting family history story from Yunndaga (Woolgar). Her great-uncle, Richard Goninon, was the mine manager of Menzies Consolidated Goldmine for some 25 years from about 1900 to 1925. She had photos of the Manager’s Residence next to the mine and […]
