THE Court Hotel was a jerry-built corrugated iron pub established in what is now an abandoned gold mining town in Western Australia. Bulong was a bustling settlement located 580kms east of Perth in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. In… Read More ›
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Perth’s old and new Imperials
The Imperial Hotel on Wellington Street, Perth (WA) was a prominent, multi-storey building first completed in 1898. Located opposite Perth’s central railway station, it was described in 1889 as a “handsome ornament” to the area during the Gold Boom era. The… Read More ›
The opening of Kalgoorlie’s iconic York Hotel
Built in 1900–1901 by John Crothers for proprietor Henry Edward Laslett, the York Hotel in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, is a historic landmark located on Hannan Street. Designed by architect Daniel T. Edmunds in the Federation Anglo-Dutch style, it remains a… Read More ›