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“I’ve got me tobacco, I’ve got me beer and I’ve got me dog”.

13/04/2019 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Fred and Merle Alford, Coolgardie 1975

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 […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Edwards Royal Hotel – Coolgardie Hotels

29/03/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Hotels Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Hotels

St Anthony’s – Coolgardie Convent

24/03/2019 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, School, St Anthony's, Western Australia

The Metropolitan Hotel – Coolgardie hotels 8

06/02/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Hotels Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Hotels, Western Australia

Mollie’s Box – A family story

26/01/2019 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

by Pam Caddy In 1999 a television program ‘Adopt A Soldier’ promoting the Perth Battye Library, featured a copy of a photograph of Pam Caddy’s father and four of his brothers all serving in WW1. This was the first time that Pam had seen the photo and she found out that it was from a […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Comet Vale, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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