The south-eastern corner of Forrest and Lefroy Streets Coolgardie was the scene of a transaction in the early 1890’s that gave the site the name of ‘Medicine Corner’. An old prospector and a young man fresh from Broken Hill camped on the site to which came an old man – he was ‘slab-chested, bow-legged, windmill-armed, […]
Lennonville ‘Warramboo’ Cemetery –
Lennonville (Warramboo) East Cemetery 1st Reserve: 6842 gazetted date 16 Mar 1900 36 deaths, 27 of whom were children. There are two cemeteries at the abandoned town of Lennonville, which is about 10 km north of Mt Magnet. The cemeteries are located on either side of the Great Northern Highway. There is only one headstone, […]
The Miners Institute –
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 […]
In the Future by Prospect Good
In The Future – by Prospect Good Oh what will the bush bards sing in time When the digging days are done? When the roaring times have been sung in rhymes The yarns of the past all spun? When there’s no new field to rush and work And never a campfire gleams When […]
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 […]
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