And All So Far From Home....

Londonderry
Western Australia

Londonderry is a townsite in the eastern goldfields, 14 km south south west of Coolgardie, just west of the Coolgardie-Norseman railway. Gold was discovered here in early 1894 by a party of six prospectors who named the find after the home town in Northern Ireland of one of the prospectors. It was a rich find which was taken over by Lord Fingall in September 1892, but the gold soon petered out. A townsite was gazetted in 1895. The townsite is now abandoned.

Londonderry Postal Directory 1899

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Books of interest................

"Londonderry - The Golden Hole"
by Austin Sprake
great detail - indexed
Published by Hesperian Press 1991
ISBN 0 85905 160 9