In the Christmas week of 1894, a prospector James Anderson, known as ‘New Zealand Jimmy’, finally had some success after a run of bad luck at Kurnalpi and Peake’s Find, by finding a nugget at Pig Flat at Coolgardie. It weighed in at 28 ozs for which he received £102 from the Union Bank. James […]
“I’ve got me tobacco, I’ve got me beer and I’ve got me dog”.
I have been fortunate in being given permission by Roger Garwood to share his photographs from the book ‘Off Like Flies’ by Trish Ainslee and Roger Garwood. Roger told me:- Fred’s philosophy of life : He once explained, after he had sold the Doreen Rose and the new owner (I’ve forgotten his name) found millions […]
Edwards Royal Hotel – Coolgardie Hotels
Edwards Royal Hotel – Coolgardie Lot 31, Cnr Ford and Bayley Streets, Coolgardie Rudy Krakouver’s Hotel was the first two story hotel in Coolgardie and opened for business in June 1895. Later the Edwards family took over the hotel and claimed the hotel offered ‘Superior accommodation and attractive waiters’. The catering at the Royal was […]
St Anthony’s – Coolgardie Convent
We have been fortunate indeed to have been given access to the admission records of St Anthony’s, Coolgardie or The Coolgardie Convent. The records are being made available to us by the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage. We very much appriciated their assistance. The first […]
The Metropolitan Hotel – Coolgardie hotels 8
The Metropolitan Hotel Coolgardie: When Pat Kennedy and his wife vacated the site on the north-eastern corner of Bayley and Fords streets in 1894, Fred Brewer erected a hotel two years later which was called The Metropolitan. The hotel had two frontages – one on Bayley Street and the other in Ford Street, with he […]
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