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Saturday, July 28, 2012

KALGOORLIE / BOULDER........WA



Looking down, from a purpose built platform, into the Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mine (KCGM)......one of today's biggest working open cast mine in the southern hemisphere 
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KALGOORLIE.........
The walk down Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie's main street, you see great examples of architecture from bygone eras....................... 







York Hotel - 1901
Exchange Buildings - 1898





Australia Hotel - 1898

Palace Hotel - 1898





Speeds Criterion Hotel
Tattersalls Hotel





British Arms Museum - 1899
The old Post Office and Court House






Kalgoorlie City Markets - 1901
Kalgoorlie Town Hall - 1908
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The magnificent Hoover Mirror........
once was in Hoover House at Gwalia,
now in the Palace Hotel Kalgoorlie
Statue of Paddy Hannan - made from 90 pieces of soldered copper
and sculptured by John MacLeod in 1923
Kalgoorlie's beautiful Town Hall Theatre

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BOULDER...........
Like Kalgoorlie the main street of Boulder - Burt Street - boasts many beautiful architectural buildings from bygone eras...... 






Boulder Town Hall - completed in 1908 -
 houses the Phillip Goatcher Curtain - an exquisite hand painted drop curtain
Boulder Town Hall theatre





The exquisite Phillip Goatcher hand painted drop curtain
Court Hotel - 1900

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