BOULDER (WA)
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1950 - BOULDER "ROUND THE TOWN"
The Goldfields Motorcycle Club were well known for staging the richest paying Around the Houses motorcycle events in the state during the 1950's.
The circuit was a 3.7 mile circuit that ran through the central business area of Boulder. Some of the house hold names that raced the circuit were Peter Nichol, George Scott, Stan Foster and Jack Polkinghorn.
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1950 - BOULDER BLOCK AROUND THE HOUSES
On Sunday the 27th of August 1950 motorcycle racing events were held around the streets of Boulder, The event was promoted by the Goldfields Motorcycle Club.
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KALGOORLIE MINER NEWSPAPER REPORTED
25th August 1950 |
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1952 - BOULDER BLOCK AROUND THE HOUSEOn Sunday the 24th of August 1952 motorcycle racing events were held around the streets of Boulder. The event was promoted by the Goldfields Motorcycle Club.
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1952 circa - Ken Marshall Reiss Carroll and Roly Marshall all envolved in the event. Photo: unknown.
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1953 - BOULDER BLOCK TT ROAD RACESOn Sunday the 30th of August motorcycle racing events were held around the streets of Boulder, The event was promoted by the Goldfields Motorcycle Club.
Steve Unriquez Photo feature
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1953 - BOULDER BLOCK AROUND THE HOUSES LOCATION
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1976 - KALGOORLIE RACE ROUND ADVENTURES
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Brian Moyle recalls: I have some very fond memories of both Kalgoorlie and Boulder back in the mid 1970's. A bunch of us would pile into a couple of cars on Friday afternoon after work and drive through all night so we were ready to drink big amounts of Hannans, eat countermeals at all the old pubs that have now been demolished. Drive up and down the back lanes sitting on top of the doors looking over fences for old car. I must say that the locals were great, we would bash on the tin fences till they opened the gates. and then let this drunken mob crawl all over there Rusty Gold, The quality of the cars was fantastic and most of them were for sale a quite low prices. Then we would drop into the Boulder Block Hotel and have a few more middies of Hannans best, then head out to the old car dump, which has now been destroyed along with the
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Boulder Block Hotel to make way for the Super Pit. I had my AP6 Valiant Wagon at the time and would drive that back home chock a block full of car parts. Made so great friendship on these trips, Kalgoorlies night life was wild an endless, The Tower Hotel just over the railway bridge had just been built if iam correct, great times with mates.
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1988 - BOULDER BI CENTENNIAL AROUND THE HOUSES
Motorcycle and Sidcar racing returned to the streets of Boulder in 1988 when the Goldfields Motor Cycle Club ran a Around the House race meeting on a shortened version of the original circuit.
The circuit started in Burt street and took in the Boulder Block Road, Hainault Road, Golden Eagle corner and then back to the finish line on Burt Street.
Over 100 bike riders entered the event along with 20 sidecar teams.
West Australian Motorsport History facebook photo feature
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1988 - COLEMAN WILLIAMS
1988 - Bunbury rider Coleman Williams on his Yamaha around the streets of Boulder. Photo: Michael J Thorman.
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1991 - BOULDER BLOCK HOTEL
