Gwalia is 4kms south of Leonora. It was an underground gold mine & these are some of the houses that the miners lived in. When the mine closed down in 1963, the people mostly Italians & Yugoslavs left on a special train sent from Kalgoorlie & this is how the town was left. The locals from Leonora have taken on the responsibility have preserving the houses & have restored them to how they think they were left.
View of street & windmill
Kitchen table
Little Pink camp,with dirt floors, the owners kept chooks, goats
Another corrugated house
Bedroom in one of the tin miners cottages
Bathroom
Bedroom
Tin miners cottage
Bob & old car @ the Gwalia museum
Gwalia museum
Old horse dray on edge of the open pit
Sons of Gwalia open pit gold mine
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