Lot 1132 Manning Street

The small Pink Camp, with its charming features, scalloped window details and distinguishing pink-washed exterior walls remains a favourite of many visitors.

It is a rare example of a miner’s cottage that appears to have been built around two tents, linked by a skillion (lean-to) passage and with an enclosed verandah across the front. An unusual feature is the pigeon loft.

The Pink Camp was among four cottages saved from demolition in 1987/88 by the Leonora Tourist Committee with financial support from Sons of Gwalia NL, which commenced open cut operations in the early 1980s.

The cottages were dismantled and relocated from their original location south of the State Hotel on the Sons of Gwalia mine lease.

Conservation work on the Pink Camp, funded by Lotterywest and the Shire of Leonora, was completed in early October 2013 and the cottage is once more open to the public.