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Captain Kettle of the Toorak Hotel –

17/10/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Built in 1899. On June 25, 1903 a fire destroyed the whole of the front of the hotel. Situated on the 90 Mile Road, in the early days, this was the road out of Coolgardie on the North side. It closed some time in 1910. Licensee’s Harold B McCormick – 1900 E Bradley – 1901 […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Hotels, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Hotels, Western Australia

The Shamrock Hotel – Coolgardie hotels

03/10/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Next in our series of Coolgardie Hotels is Colreavy’s Shamrock Hotel: When the Shamrock Hotel, on the corner of Sylvester and Jobson Streets, Coolgardie was opened in September 1895, the licensee, Mrs Cath Colreavy, announced her best efforts would be used to ‘promote the comfort and convenience of patrons and visitors’. Despite having twenty bedrooms […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Hotels, Western Australia

The Black Range Pioneers – “Where is Frenchy?”

15/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times 28 June 1908, page 3 BLACK RANGE PIONEERS “Where is ”Frenchy ?” There appeared in a recent issue of the Sunday Times, a paragraph relating to the original discoverers of Black Range, fourteen years ago in 1892. It was founded on the statement of one of them, McIntyre, as was published in the […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Black Range, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Victoria Hotel – Coolgardie

12/07/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

VICTORIA HOTEL, Coolgardie. Corner of Hunt and Bayley Streets. (now a garage diagonally opposite Ben Priors Park) Built in 1895 and opened on the 1st July at a cost of £10,000, the Victoria Hotel was one of two brick buildings in the town. It consisted of 30 bedrooms, both double and single, with a broad […]

Filed Under: Hotels, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Hotels, Western Australia

Yerilla – a ghost town

25/05/2019 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Bill Smith's Never Never Land Hotel Yerilla c 1906

YERILLA 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 […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yerilla

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