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 […]
Yerilla – a ghost town
25/05/2019 By 3 Comments
Latitude : 29 29 S Longitude : 121 50 E Yerilla is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 830 km east north east of Perth, 105 km east north east of Menzies and 37 kms south east of Kookynie. Gold was discovered in the area in the mid 1890’s, and the miners soon formed a progress […]
The Marvel Bar Hotel – Coolgardie hotels
25/05/2019 By 2 Comments
The Marvel Bar Hotel is at 31-33 Bayley Street, Coolgardie. The current building was built in 1898, next to the Western Australian Bank. The first hotel on the site was a single storey iron building. In 1996 it was occupied by the Coolgardie RSL and still is today. The building which is two story, and […]
Edwards Royal Hotel – Coolgardie Hotels
29/03/2019 By 2 Comments
Edwards Royal Hotel – Coolgardie Lot 31, Cnr Ford and Bayley Streets, Coolgardie Rudy Krakouver’s Hotel was the first two story hotel in Coolgardie and opened for business in June 1895. Later the Edwards family took over the hotel and claimed the hotel offered ‘Superior accommodation and attractive waiters’. The catering at the Royal was […]
