


An amateur photographer's hobby.
We took a four day trip to the South-West of Western Australia as a “Winter Break”. We stayed in Pemberton and visited Walople, The Valley of the Giants, Manjimup and Nannup.
[see MAP here]
Pub Window, Pemberton Hotel, Brockman Street, Pemberton, Western Australia
Tree Trunk, Brockman Street, Pemberton, Western Australia
105 mm Artillery Piece from Vietnam Way 1964
War Memorial, Brockman Street, Pemberton, Western Australia
Alfresco, Brockman Street, Pemberton, Western Australia
Pemberton Artscape, Brockman Street, Pemberton, Western Australia
“Chimneys”, Old School Building, Brockman Street, Pemberton, Western Australia
Old Timber Workers’ Cottage, Brockman Street, Pemberton, Western Australia
Water Feature, Mottram Street, Manjimup, Western Australia
War Memorial, Giblett Street, Manjimup, Western Australia
Railway Station, Pemberton Tramway Company, Railway Crescent, Pemberton, Western Australia
V Class 2-8-2 Mikado Type Steam Locomotive 1213, Pemberton Tramway, Pemberton, Western Australia
Abandoned Firebox, Pemberton Tramway, Railway Crescent, Pemberton, Western Australia
Derelict Rail Stock, Pemberton Tramway, Railway Crescent, Pemberton, Western Australia
“Sleepers”, Pemberton Tramway, Railway Crescent, Pemberton, Western Australia
Tree Top Walk, Valley of the Giants, Tingledale, Walpole, Western Australia
Ancient Empire Walk Trail, Valley of the Giants, Tingledale, Walpole, Western Australia
The Ancient Empire is a 450 metre walk trail that takes you around and through an ancient and unique red tingle forest. Some of the giant tingle trees including the most popular of the gnarled veterans, known as Grandma Tingle. The trail follows the story of the lost era of Gondwana.
Distance View, John Rate Lookout, South West Highway, Walpole, Western Australia
Misty Morning, Vasse Highway, Beedleup, Pemberton, Western Australia
War Memorial, Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
Derelict Chain-Link Fence & Gate, Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
Nannup Hotel, Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
“Cafe”, Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
All Saints Anglican Church, Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
Railway Bogie, Lions Timber Park, Brockman Highway, Nannup, Western Australia
Old Steam Engine, Lions Timber Park, Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
Logs on Rail Bogies, Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
Jarrah Burl, Lions Timber Park, Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
Marinko Thomas Memorial, Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
Footbridge, Blackwood River, Nannup, Western Australia
Flooded, Blackwood River, Nannup, Western Australia
39 Warren Road, Nannup, Western Australia
[Now the office for an Estate Agency]
Standing Alone, Vasse Highway, Nannup Mill, Nannup, Western Australia
Local Wildlife, Vasse Highway, Channybearup, Beedelup, Western Australia
Jetty, Swimming Pool, Swimming Pool Road, Pemberton, Western Australia
The Tin Horse ‘Highway’ is a 15 kilometre stretch of road in Western Australia which heads east from the town of Kulin out to the Kulin Bush Races Track at Jilakin Rock. There are currently over 70 tin horses displayed on the Tin Horse Highway, in the town site of Kulin and along other roads to Kulin.
Location of the “Tin Horse Highway”
See this link for a map showing Leonora and Gwalia
Sonsa Dean Din Ras 1909
An Afghan who lived along Nambi Road and had his own personal mosque
Oroya Black Range Gold Mine, Sandstone 1908
Smoke Stack
(The State Hotel in Gwalia is visible to the left)
Machinery Shed, Sons of Gwalia Mine
Sons of Gwalia 1977
The mine was liquidated in 1963 and did not reopen again until 1982. The new entity operated the mine until its being placed into administration in 2004
Images Circa 1963
Maintenance near Headframe 1941
Mine View 1941
1907
Working Underground
Tool Sharpeners
Train Station, Gwalia
Mine 1926
Underground Shift
Atop the Gas Producers, Looking Towards the State Hotel
Tower Street 1905
The building to the right is the National Bank of Australasia – Now the Tourist & Information Bureau (See Here for today image)
“Ken”
Woodline locomotive in what today is the rear car park of the mine offices.
Ken’s Parking Spot During a Rainstorm in 2012
Images Associated with the Woodlines
Large quantities of timber are required for the development and running of the gold mines. This timber was not available locally and so a transport problem arose. The material required had to be shipped from its source to the lease and the best way considered to do this was by a small railway. An application was made for the constructing of the tramway and this was later granted to the Company.
The total area covered by the woodline was approximately 800 square miles. 4000 miles of 20″ gauge track. Only sufficient track was maintained to operate a few spur lines at one time. As an area became exhausted, the track was lifted (in sections complete with mulga log sleepers) and relaid in another area. The spur lines were laid 2 miles apart so that woodcutters were always within 1 mile of the track. The mulga cut was the fuel source for Sons of Gwalia Mine. About 30,000 tons of mulga of wood per year. The wood was used as fuel for boilers producing steam for the winder and to make producer gas for the engines in the power house. These engines drove the alternators generating the mines electricity and compressors producing the compressed air required. Woodline camps were very spartan. Each woodcutter had a small canvas hut with iron roof, which could be lifted onto a railway timber wagon and moved to the next campsite. Bough sheds were erected around the huts for additional shade and pens for chickens and goats were re-erected at each new campsite. Now, remains of bough sheds indicate the location of a campsite. Although a predominantly male occupation, some woodcutters had their families with them.
Washout of the Line at Lake Raeside
Railing Water 1941
Aerial – State Hotel in the background
The current mine offices are today located in the vacant plot in the centre of this image
Winder Wheels
Gold Pouring 1906
The Winder
Before the Fire in 1921
Leonora
Sons of Gwalia Mine 1949
Wooden Head Frame
Tram Car and Barn 1905
Tram 1903
Station Creek Homestead 1904
Trucks in Tower Street, Leonora
Todd Bros Coach Factory
The Mail Car
The Workers Club 1920
The Old Hotel Murrin Murrin 1905
The Smelter, Annaconda Copper Mine, Eulaminna 1900
Tatterstalls Hotel Mt Morgans
Sandalwood Cutters, Wilsons Patch
Unknown
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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
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Views of Sons of Gwalia Mine over Many Years
Gwalia Landscape from Mt Leonora
Bulldozer Clearing Land
Car Outside the White House Hotel
Outing on New Year’s Day 1914
Gold Display, National Bank of Australia, Malcolm (Pistols on table!)
“Painless” Haircuts at Murrin Murrin
Donkey Cart Murrin Murrin 1905
Headframe at Mt Morgans Mine 1896
Mt Morgans Volunteer Fire Brigade
Mt Morgans Mine 1930
Magazine (Explosives Store) Mt Morgans 1896
Mt Morgans Cricket Club
Camel Train Hauling Firewood, Mt Morgans (not a tree in sight)
Hill’s Malcolm Hotel
Moving Town, Malcolm (Always take the pub with you)
Donkey Team Transporting Firewood
Mine Workers
Wood Train
Mine Workers at Mt Morgans
Mine at Lawlers
Gwalia Aerials 1956
Mine Workers 1930
Retail Centre
“Midland”
Convent of Mercy School 1932
Bank of New South Wales
Built 1939 – closed 1943 and then occupied by National Bank of Australia until 1966
Leinster Mine
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Leonora 1910
Aerial of Hoover House
Earlier History of the Sons of Gwalia Mine
The Gwalia mine was originally established in 1897 by Herbert Hoover, who later became the 31st President of the United States.
St Barbara restarted mining at Gwalia in 2008 and has produced more than two million ounces of gold
Mining at Gwalia is planned to reach a depth of 2,300 metres below the surface by 2031
Captioned: Fowler with Mr P Franchine & Mr W Allen
Flooding at Malcom in 1927
Captioned: First Motor Car – Dr Bertram Will & Bob Thompson
Merton’s Reward – Note the Pistol!
Views of Merton’s Reward
Mertondale Football Club
Butcher in Mertondale 1905
Menzies Volunteer Fire Brigade 1909
Rail Workers
Mine Workers
Mary & Doreen
Malcolm Townsite
Malcolm Hotel
Malcolm Brewery 1902
Lawlers 1929
Mail Runs
Underground Miners
Leonora Early Days
Leonora Tramway
Leonora Railway Station
Leonora State School – Opening 1908
Leonora State School 1910
Tree Planting
Watching the Game – Leonora Sports Ground
School Bus Run in front of The State Hotel, Gwalia
Manoeuvering a Building into Place – Leonora
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The Underground Access – Sons of Gwalia Mine
Horse Rider is Les Willey, with the Owner Bill Biggs Circa 1940s
“Dick & Mary” in Mine Manager’s House Swimming Pool
Mine Manager’s House Swimming Pool
Mine Manager’s House
It was much later named after Herbert Hoover the first future president of America who was the first mine manager. It was completed after he left Leonora and never lived here.
Sons of Gwalia Mine Headframe
The Sons of Gwalia Mine – Late 1950s
The Gwalia State School 1948
School Master’s House 1948
Aerial View of the Public Pool, Gwalia
This was reputedly the first public swimming pool in Western Australia. It also doubled as a fire fighting water supply for the mine.
Aerial View of the Gwalia Open Cut
Early Days of the Open Cut
Gwalia Methodist School Picnic 1919
Groups of Sons of Gwalia Employees
“Italian Motor Racing Cyclists” 1932
Gwalia Heaframe Beyond a New Pit
Crash!
“Gum Creek”, Lawlers.
Prospectors left Cue in the Murchison Goldfields and found gold at what is now Lawlers in 1892. Lawlers is about 160 km (100 miles) north of Leonora
Scenes from Great Western Mine, Wilson’s Patch
Wilson’s Patch was about 70 Km (42 miles) north of Leonora on the road to Agnew.
Outside Great Western Hotel
“Gold Dinner” – Mt Malcolm
A Group of Well Dressed Gentlemen
The 4 o’clock Shift
Engineering
Fitters’ Shop 1932
Leonora Municipal Tramcar 1903
The Last Tram Run in 1915
Lawlers Hotel
Small Steam Engine used on the Mine
Lapsley’s Drays, Doyles Well
Jack Mahomet’s Camel-Train 1930
Inside the Gwalia Mine Manager’s House 1921
Imperial Hotel, Malcolm
Great Eastern Hotel, Lawlers 1921
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Moving a 20 Ton Crankshaft
Before the 1921 Fire
Fire at Sons of Gwalia Mine 1921
1927 Buick Mail Car
1930 Mess Room
Head Frame 1948
Heading Underground in 1963
Sons of Gwalia Mine 1968
Anaconda Copper Mine Eulaminna 1900
Eulaminna was an old township east of Leonora along the road to Laverton
Rail Wash-away 1927 Floods
Afternoon Shift 1930
Allies Set 1916 Gwalia School Ball
Amongst the Wildflowers
Description is wrong £60,000 = $120,000 (AUD) and is today worth over $4,000,000!!
An Outing to Doyle’s Well, about 37 miles (60 km) north west of Leonora
Doyle’s Well Pub Ads
August 1913
Ballangarry Hotel
Balangarry is about 120 km north of Leonora near where Leinster is today
Bank of New South Wales Leonora in two different incarnations
Barnes Federal Theatre
Built in 1899 or Mr P. Barnes, an hotel owner and businessman of Leonora.
Cyclists at Craiggiemore Gold Mine
The old Craiggiemore Gold Mine was located in the Laverton Area
Gwalia Leonora Bus Service
Camel Drawn Plow, Gwalia
The Sign on the plough says Lynas Motors – I don’t know if there was an association with a Perth Ford Dealer of the same name.
Cameleer with his Camel
Camel Train Leonora 1930
Camel Train Wilsons Patch
Wilson’s Patch was about 80 km north of Leonora
Camel Trains = the top image is at the Gwalia Railway Station