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hide the secrets within . Peak inside Mazza ’ s Store to see what wears were available a century ago , next door is Patroni ’ s , a guest home for single men , mostly whom worked in the mine .
Sons of Gwalia was once one of Australia ’ s largest mines , its managers home sits above the huge hole in the ground that is the modern open cut mine , a building grand compared to most , it was designed by an American engineer , one of the first graduates from Stanford University , who had been recruited by the London based Berwick , Moreing & Co . mining company to first work as a scout and then manager in the Western Australian goldfields .
“ A land of black flies , red dust and white heat ,” was how the American described the conditions in the
relics of the desert , a look into the day to day of a gwalia mining family
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