Part 6 of the continuing collection of old images of the early mining days in the northern goldfields of Western Australia, mainly the old Sons of Gwalia Mine at Leonora but also many of other surrounding places.
See this link for a map showing Leonora and Gwalia
Work Shed, Sons of Gwalia Mine
Stripping Timber for Transportation to the Mine
Underground Ore Cars
Timber for Boilers on Rail Cars
Workers Taking a Break
Woodline Steam Engines
Timber Stockpile
Woodline Trains Used for Staff Picnic
Sleeping Outdoors?
Parade Outside the White House Hotel, Tower Street, Leonora
Car Outside the White House Hotel
Mine Sites
Unknown Goldfields Hotel
Sons of Gwalia Mine 1963
Battery Fire 1921
Railway Hotel, Murrin Murrin
Gathered for a Race Meeting at Darlot
Gwalia Mine Manager’s House late 1920s
Police Party
P Hill’s Central Hotel, Tower Street, Leonora
Ore Carriages at the Decline
Parade Tower Street, Leonora 1903
Full Load on the Leonora Tram 1908
Gwalia Open Cut
Similar View in 2015
Mine Manager’s House Behind Open Cut
Similar View in 2012
Headframe on the Edge of the Open Cut
“Zion City”, The Miners Camp, Mertondale, Western Australia, 1905
Yundaminderra Battery 1937
Arrival of Morgan’s Minstrels, Yundaminderra
