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The lockup - lined with Jarrah. I have some of those screw jacks in my back shed - inherited from my father The most impressive remaining building is the old State Hotel There was a nice sunset glow that evening

We had a number of these old cyclone beds when I was a kid. I used to sleep on our verandah in one over summer for years. I actually used to find it pretty comfortable when combined with a kapok mattress. I had a President fridge just like this as a bottle fridge for decades...

The town of Gwalia is basically a ghost town. It is open to the public and you can wonder through the various buildings without charge or supervision. The mine shut in 1963 and the town died overnight. https://www.leonora.wa.gov.au/visitors/gwalia-museum/brief-history-gwalia-mine.aspx

It has been beautifully restored inside. The furniture is either original or period correct. I suspect that these ceiling details were added in a renovation as they look very art deco to me This looks more original to my untutored eye. The breakfast room. A substantial, self...

We arrived in Gwalia, which is only 4 km from Leonora, to stay at the Hoover House B&B. This is housed in the old managers house of the Sons of Gwalia gold mine. Apart from being a lovely old house its claim to fame is that it was designed in 1897 by the future US President Herbert Hoover during...

Thanks very much for the comprehensive and enjoyable TR.

We then headed off a pretty rough gravel road towards our overnight destination of Gwalia. We had been talking to a traveller in the Kookynie Pub and he had mentioned seeing a big patch of Sturt Peas by the roadside so I was keeping an eye out for them.

Mine infrastructure A deep shaft I assume the horse in the foreground might be 'the horse'.

Just a few minutes away were the remnants of the town of Kookynie The Grand Hotel is famous in W.A. Unfortunately its future seems very grim. It is operated by a very elderly lady and has been for sale for many years with no takers. This is the entire bar area The main hallway The...

As usual my wife found lots of plants and flowers to photograph

We then headed off to see the Niagara Dam and Kookynie It is mostly only the main roads that are sealed Niagara Dam. Built at great expense and effort and then became obsolete almost immediately after its completion. At least it is now a good spot for wildlife and camping...

We now headed north to spend a night in Gwalia before backtracking to Kalgoorlie for another night before heading south to Esperance. I have marked, very poorly, in red our route for this part of the trip. We passed through Menzies twice. The town is clean and well maintained but extremely...

A miners humpy. This is a pretty luxurious one as it it has floorboards. My parents married towards the end of WW2 when he was guarding Italian POW's in the south of WA. (Multiple bouts of Malaria had him removed from the fighting New Guinea) After the war they moved back for him to resume...

A simple demonstration of the weight and danger of the haul trucks. The sign points out that the driver of the haul truck didn't feel any 'bump' when he drove over the ute. A small 5 head battery I think Forward Down were operating until the mid 1960's. The Dynamite Room was...

Finishing off Kalgoorlie. Firstly - the 'Super Pit' at night During the day We managed to see a couple of small blasts Our visitor had wanted to do a tour of the Super Pit but the operators of the tour had apparently taken a couple of days holiday. The tour does not go down the pit...

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Kalgoorlie continued --- Why don't we have facades like this these days? A few shots of Kalgoorlie's 'sister' city Boulder. Once a separate city but now one conturbation. Wealth also attracts other activities. My mother worked in Kalgoorlie in the 1930's/40's and was always a...

Some buildings around Kalgoorlie. The amount of wealth generated around the turn of the 20th Century by gold can be seen in these buildings. An historic post box

And now onto Kalgoorlie Passing by the remnants of the Rabbit Proof Fence A quick drive through Coolgardie. It was the initial major centre in these goldfields hence the impressive buildings was was soon overshadowed by Kalgoorlie just under 40km to the east. And then driving...

Looking at the first couple of photos I was thinking about how you could almost mistake the scenery as being in the Netherlands - and then the windmill turned up 😊