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
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
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
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 […]
Red Dust Revival – 12-15 Sep 2019
The LAKE PERKOLILLI RED DUST REVIVAL 2019 12 to 15 September ON A CLAYPAN NEAR KALGOORLIE, Western Australia AUSTRALIA’S MOTOR SPORT MAVERICKS HEAD BUSH 19 June 2019 It’s called sacrilege! Desecration! A travesty! Covering precious antique race cars and bikes in sticky red dust and driving them at extraordinary speeds. The drivers of 100 pre-war […]
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