I have recently been in correspondence with Elaine Hopper and Michael Crennan who have kindly allowed me to share the story about their relative, Michael Crennan. We originally came into contact through the Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial web site, as Michael was the victim of a mining accident. Michael Crennan (Great Grandson) attended the […]
Black Flag – ghost towns
05/10/2019 By Leave a Comment
BLACK FLAG:- R H Henning and party pegged the Black Flag lease which in October 1894 was reported to be ‘doing very well.’ The property was sold the following year to Lord Sudley’s syndicate for $48,000. By this time men were opening up their claims, many with good results. In December, the following year, there […]
An Explosive Situation
04/10/2019 By Leave a Comment
Menzies Miner 20 February 1897, page 11 The Kanowna Explosion MATCH DROPPED INTO CASK OF RUM. DEATH OF ONE OF THE INJURED MEN An accident resulting in serious injury to several persons occurred at the White Feather Hotel today, when a match dropped in a cask of spirit caused a terrific explosion. Mr Cole, proprietor […]
The Shamrock Hotel -Coolgardie hotels
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Next in our series of Coolgardie Hotels is Colreavy’s Shamrock Hotel: When the Shamrock Hotel, on the corner of Sylvester and Jobson Streets, Coolgardie was opened in September 1895, the licensee, Mrs Cath Colreavy, announced her best efforts would be used to ‘promote the comfort and convenience of patrons and visitors’. Despite having twenty bedrooms […]
The Boyland Brothers:
01/10/2019 By Leave a Comment
Young men “turned to stone”. George Boyland George Boyland was born in Garden Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, on the 8th March 1872. The son of a miner, he and his brother and sister moved with their parents from Victoria to Queensland, and then around 1894 to Western Australia. He seems to have travelled back and forth […]
