Some eighteen years ago my late friend, Sandy Duncan, and I started collecting photographs and information on the hotels of the Goldfields of Western Australia. Although we were collectors of all aspects of Goldfields History, hotels became our personal project. Sandy would look after the Kalgoorlie and Boulder hotels and I would do the ‘Other’ […]
Can you help Outback Family History???
Hi Everyone! Are any readers ‘Booktopia’ customers or ‘Ancestry.com’ members?? When you log on to these pages it would be a huge assistance to Outback Family History if you could log on through the Outback Family History blog page:- @ www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com This won’t make any difference to any […]
Snatched from the Jaws of Death
Western Argus 5th May 1898 LOST IN THE BUSH. FIVE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER. MISS JANECZEK’S AWFUL EXPERIENCE! Southern Cross seems determined to make a name for itself. Beside those persons interested in the mines in the place, nobody scarcely knew of this town, in the barren desert of West Australia. Then it […]
Perth Book Launch – Turning Men Into Stone
For all the readers who don’t live in Kalgoorlie-Boulder a second launch of the highly successful book ‘Turning Men Into Stone, A Medical and Social History of Silicosis in Western Australia’ by Dr Criena Fitzgerald will be held this coming Friday. Everyone is welcome, if you could RSVP for catering purposes:- RSVP by 25th May […]
Speeds Criterion Hotel – Kalgoorlie
The Criterion happily is still quite recognisable from this photograph taken not long after its completion in 1901. It was built in 1900 on the former premesis of the ‘Universary Wine Saloon’ also owned by Charles Speed. You will see from the article below that the builder was also responsible for the Municipal Markets, The […]
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