Mirror Perth 15 August 1931, page 19 NOT A GOLD RUSH BUT !! A Rush On Richmond Beer Continuous Streams Of People Now Flow Daily Into The Grand Hotel, Kalgoorlie And Shamrock Hotel, Boulder. RICHMOND beer has captured the Goldfields as it has done every other part of Australia. The popular beverage is now so […]
Liquid Gold – The Elliott Brothers Breweries
Tom and Bill Elliott came to Western Australia in 1893 and moved immediately to the Goldfields where they began a business as cartage contractors. After two years, in 1895, Tom built a cordial factory near the Kalgoorlie rail line and also the Federal Brewery in Kalgoorlie for F W Whitfield. In 1898 he was to […]
Turning the Sod
Follow my blog with Bloglovin The Mirror – Perth 28 August 1937, page 23 Kalgoorlie Brewery’s Record of Progress, Maker of Big K Ale and Stout & Hannan Lager ONLY one of the 19 breweries once trading on the Goldfields has survived. That is the Kalgoorlie Brewery and its record is one of continued progress. […]
The Gabanintha Beer Strike
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette -19 May 1904, page 3 The Gabanintha Beer Strike. I wonder if you chaps as writes the papers ever thinks about the price of beer a up here and other sorts of drinks It seems to me you fancy that the centre of the earth and the end of […]
The Great Beer Strike of 1903 – Victory !!!!
BEER STRIKE AT MT MORGANS VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS Kalgoorlie Western Argus: 14 July 1903. – A correspondent, telegraphing under yesterday’s date from Mt. Morgans, states :A fierce and decisive battle has been fought in this town, the contest lasting exactly 48 hours. The miners, led by Captain Frampton, held a meeting on Friday night […]