Following on from the first part of this tale from earlier in the year: The Story of the Murchison Part 1 Extract from a paper prepared by F Bateson and read to the WA Historical Society on the 25 October 1946. Early in 1895, I (Frederick W Bateson) was offered a position at the Star […]
Archives for June 2019
The Bulletin Hotel – by Henry Lawson
26/06/2019 By 2 Comments
I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand Which, I’m told is very tony – and its front looks very grand And somehow fell a-thinking of a pub I know so well Of a place in West Australia called The Bulletin Hotel Just a little six-room shanty built of corrugated tin […]
The Railway Hotel – Coolgardie
22/06/2019 By Leave a Comment
The hotel was originally built not as a pub, but as offices for a London merchant who came to Coolgardie during the gold rush in the 1890s. The Railway Hotel, at 75 Bayley Street (Corner of Lefroy Street), Coolgardie, is one of the only four remaining hotel buildings in the town, which at one time […]
Paddy Lawler – pioneer profile
22/06/2019 By Leave a Comment
Patrick J Lawler ‘Paddy Lawler’ was awarded the reward claim of £200 in 1899 (as the discoverer of a new goldfield), however, as was often the case, he was again broke by 1910. He died on 8 Dec 1914 at the age of 60yrs at Youanmi in WA from Cancer. He is buried in the […]
The Ragged Thirteen- a verse
21/06/2019 By Leave a Comment
Sunday Times 21 August 1938, page 21 A Rhyme of the Ragged Thirteen (By Dryblower Murphy.) The cases of fizz are on the ice, the table turkey’s trussed (Hang the bother and hang the price when its vintage versus dust). There’s crooners to croon and a band to play, speeches and toasts in turn, And […]
