Big Bell abando

  Great drone footage of the Big Bell Hotel about 30km from Cue in Western Australia.

Big Bell is a ghost town now, but had a thriving past. A distant relative John Harold Urbahns originally surveyed the town site.

The Big Bell was a gold mine which expended in 1935, a town was planned for the mine workers. In 1936 The Cue Road Board was asked to suggest a name for the new townsite and  recommended "Townsend" as a suitable title and Coodardy street as the principal thoroughfare.

Mr. and Mrs. Townsend were the original settlers at Coodardy. The proposed names for the six streets in the residential area: —Paton Street (after one of the original owners of the mine); Pitt Street (after the present manager); Wittenoom, Meehan and Lefroy Streets (after prominent pastoralists of the district); and Urbahn Street (after the Government surveyor).

The Big Bell Hotel was constructed in the classic art deco style and opened in 1937. It reputedly had the longest bar in Australia. The mine closed in 2003.