Western Mail 26th Dec 1946 Ex-servicemen have banded together for a building project at Kalgoorlie The Housing Problem – Enterprise on the Goldfields by K, Douglas DUE to the initiative and willingness of a band of ex servicemen, a model community centre is well under way to being completed at […]
Archives for February 2017
The Moorine Rock Hotel
23/02/2017 By Leave a Comment
While heading to Perth you will have to have driven past the Moorine Rock Hotel, you may have even stopped there for refreshment. Recently, courtesy of OFH reader Peter Green, I have been lucky enough to be given permission to post the following photographs of Moorine Rock and the hotel. With kind permission from Kath […]
No Bull and the Brady Murder !!!
21/02/2017 By Leave a Comment
This building will be instantly recognised by many located at 14 Wilson Street, Kalgoorlie. Today it is an excellent Italian restaurant called Orecchiette’s. However if you compare the two photographs you will see something missing. ie The Bulls head over the main door !!!! I have tried to find out what happened to it but […]
The Buck Brothers – Goldfields Heros
20/02/2017 By Leave a Comment
The following is a brief story about two of our Tunnelling Heros from the Goldfields – Courtesy of John Reading of the Tunnllers.Org NOTE: Although all the brothers returned from Australia all died young the oldest being John at age 44yrs. Do you have a tunneller in your family? You can search the nominal roll […]
Indigenous Veteran to be Honoured.
19/02/2017 By 4 Comments
Just over a year ago, I was contacted by historian, Maureen Roberts to ask if I could take a photograph of a headstone (if there was one) in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. She had been researching the family of Hubert Lawrence and found he died in Kalgoorlie in 1970. When I visited the cemetery I found […]
