The Hotel Australia in Laverton, Western Australia, still stands today. It has changed very little over the years, as you will see from the following photographs. The building has been reused for lots of different purposes over the years, but the façade has remained throughout its various uses. Originally, the Hotel Australia was built in […]
Not A Gold Rush, But Still
Mirror Perth 15 August 1931, page 19 NOT A GOLD RUSH. BUT STILL !! A Rush On Richmond Beer Continuous Streams Of People Now Flow Daily Into The Grand Hotel, Kalgoorlie, and the Shamrock Hotel, Boulder. RICHMOND beer has captured the Goldfields, as it has done every other part of Australia. The popular beverage is […]
Swearin ‘n’ Spittin – by Arthur Dunstan
Swearin ‘n’ Spittin – Kalgoorlie Goldminers were a great bunch of blokes. Their work was hard and dangerous, and most of them spent their leisure time in one of the 37 pubs. They drank beer as if it were their last day on earth. Sometimes, unfortunately, it was. Besides living from day to day, the […]
The Contract at Old Warden Shaft
Sunday Times: 22 December 1907 Old “Boney Brim” and his old mate Jolly walked deliberately into the bar of The Miners’ Arms, at Cue, and each drank a pint of beer. The contract for sinking the main shaft of the Old Warden mine another hundred feet had just been let, and the two mates had […]
Mick of the Murchison – ‘Doing Time’
Western Mail 8 July 1937, page 11 The Dolly Pot – Over the Plates. “Doing Time.” In Tuckanarra, a mining town about 25 miles north of Cue, there resided in the late 1800s a man named Mick. He was an excellent judge of a horse, a good rider and bushman, and knew to a penny […]
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