These days most local residents expect airconditioned houses and cars and an annual holiday as a matter of course, but this was far from the life that confronted Millicent Rose Starr for most of her life. She was born in 1910 in the Gold Mining Town of Mt Morgans as Millicent Rose Buckman. Young Rose came […]
The Dirty Acre – The Boulder Block
20/09/2016 By 1 Comment
Rather rowdy, Dingy, cloudy, Dusty, dirty, dim and dowdy, Thirsty throats to mock. Can’t mistake her, Good drought slaker, Six pubs to the bloomin’ acre, Weary hummers, Beery bummers, Cadging ‘deeners’, ‘zacks’ and ‘thrummers’, Mooching in a flock, Frontispieces hard and chilly, Sparring pots off ‘Dick’ and ‘Billy’ (‘Nough to drive a barman silly) On […]
“Time Gentlemen” – Book Review
11/06/2016 By 3 Comments
“Time Gentlemen” A History of the Hotel Industry in Western Australia by Caroline de Mori Published 1987, ISBN 1862527695 “Time Gentlemen’ traces the history of the hotel industry in Western Australia since the first liquor licences were granted to seven humble dwellings in Perth, January of 1830 to the sophisticated industry of today. I can recommend […]
The Star – Wine and Beer Saloon.
29/05/2016 By 2 Comments
The Star Wine and Beer Saloon is the first photograph to be uploaded to the ‘Hotels of the Goldfields’ project. Im sure that this is one that most will not have heard of or seen before. It was on the location of 37 to 39 Broadarrow Road, Kalgoorlie and could possibly be part of the […]
