Did you know that our present Mechanics ‘Miners’ Institute building was designed to accommodate a third story with a domed roof? The building is one of the many buildings in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie that have changed very little over the years. Kalgoorlie Western Argus 21 October 1902, page 20 The Miners ‘Mechanics’ Institute The New […]
The Loader Family – pioneer profile
The following story is an extract from the family history of Reg Blackmore and is reproduced with his permission. Emma and Nathaniel were his Great Grandparents. Emma Jane Loader’s first trip to the WA goldfields December 1895 Written by Emma in 1937 at age 95 years. Mrs. Loader and her daughter, Mrs. Harriet Childs Bottrill, […]
Mabel Hartrick – grave tales
Mabel Hutchinson was born in Walhalla, Victoria in 1874. She was the daughter of William Hutchinson and Mary Ann nee Lapping. At the age of 24yrs, young Mabel Hutchinson travelled to the Western Australian town of Geraldton where she married Charles Francis Fade Hartrick in 1899. The following photograph shows Charles with his brother Harry […]
Lennonville – a gold studded pub door
Daily News, 23 July 1953, page 5 – By road, 361 miles north-north-east from Perth is Lennonville. A tourist guide book 50 years ago would have described it as a population of 3000, seven hotels, two banks, two jewellers, an up-to-date town, a mining centre, all connected by rail. It’s still Lennonville; the idle railway […]
The Kalgoorlie Biplane –
A piece of aeronautical history will be revived by the Kalgoorlie-Boulder community with a biplane replica based on the one built in the Goldfields town during the early 20th century. The two-seater tractor biplane was built in Kalgoorlie in 1914 by mechanical engineering apprentices Paul JAENTSCH, Roy BURTON, and Walter Merlin PETERS from the Kalgoorlie […]
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