Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
From 1894 to the present day, in Western Australia the 'Department of Mines and Petroleum' merged with the Department of Minerals and Energy in 2001, AKA The Department of Mines, have produced an annual report on all aspects of mining. These not only … [Continue reading]
Following on from the recent article on the hotels of Broad Arrow I received an email from an OFH reader, John Hanley. His Gt Grandfather James Hanley owned and ran the Exchange Hotel and his family is fortunate in that the original cash book from … [Continue reading]
Just goes to show that you shouldn't believe everything you read in the paper (sorry TROVE its not your fault). I was going through a pile of archived newspaper cuttings, collected many years ago, before TROVE existed, and of course I read and … [Continue reading]
The following story was told by Jack Drayton, well know in the early Goldfields days as a journalist and a prospector. From the day he arrived in Coolgardie in 1894 Joe Hogan was a “loner”, who never had a mate and never told anyone where he … [Continue reading]
BLACK FLAG:- R H Henning and party pegged the Black Flag lease which in October 1894 was reported to be ‘doing very well.’ The property was sold the following year to Lord Sudley’s syndicate for $48,000. By this time men were opening up their … [Continue reading]
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