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The Moorine Rock Hotel

23/02/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Moorine Rock Hotel in the 1930's with truck outside.

While heading to Perth you will have to have driven past the Moorine Rock Hotel, you may have even stopped there for refreshment. Recently, courtesy of OFH reader Peter Green, I have been lucky enough to be given permission to post the following photographs of Moorine Rock and the hotel. With kind permission from Kath […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, percy black, Southern Cross, The Moorine Rock Hotel, Western Australia, Yilgarn

No Bull and the Brady Murder !!!

21/02/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

This building will be instantly recognised by many located at 14 Wilson Street, Kalgoorlie. Today it is an excellent Italian restaurant called Orecchiette’s. However if you compare the two photographs you will see something missing. ie The Bulls head over the main door !!!! I have tried to find out what happened to it but […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, butcher, Goldfields History, Horan Butchers, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

The Buck Brothers – Goldfields Heros

20/02/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Grave of John and Frederick BUCK, Kalgoorlie Cemetery

The following is a brief story about two of our Tunnelling Heros from the Goldfields – Courtesy of John Reading of the Tunnllers.Org NOTE: Although all the brothers returned from Australia all died young the oldest being John at age 44yrs.  Do you have a tunneller in your family? You can search the nominal roll […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Buck, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

Indigenous Veteran to be Honoured.

19/02/2017 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Just over a year ago, I was contacted by historian, Maureen Roberts to ask if I could take a photograph of a headstone (if there was one) in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. She had been researching the family of Hubert Lawrence and found he died in Kalgoorlie in 1970. When I visited the cemetery I found […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Aboriginal, Australian History, Goldfields History, Hugh Lawrence, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

An Extraordinary Tale

19/02/2017 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

I have often mentioned, the regular occurrence, of what you may call ‘synchronicity’ where two related things come together for no apparent reason. It seems to happen with amazing regularity and I have lost count on how many time I have received an enquiry on a particular person or place only to have another person […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Moorine Rock, Western Australia, Westonia

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