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Hotel:Prince of Wales Hotel
[22] Otter Street, opposite Napoleon Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Collingwood
Prince of Wales Hotel (1853 - 1908)
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[22] Otter Street, opposite Napoleon Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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1853
1908
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Kearney 1855: Y ; Hodgkinson 1858: Y ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1196, 1900
A brick hotel (Rate Book 1864), closed by the Licenses Reduction Board in 1908, its site is now part of the Melbourne Polytechnic campus. The image of the jolly publican was not always accurate as the following article shows; it is also a reminder that one of the sadder functions of hotels was as the venue for inquests:
Last Saturday morning a most determined suicide occurred in the Yarra near Johnston Street Bridge... With the assistance of a boat hook the body was brought on to the bank and then conveyed to the Early Bird hotel where it was identified as that of Stephen Hannaway, licensee of the Prince of Wales... [At the inquest] it was stated that the deceased had of late shown symptoms of unsoundness of mind and the verdict was that the deceased committed suicide whilst labouring under temporary insanity.
Mercury and Weekly Courier, 31 Aug 1878, p. 2
A later publican, Charles Pugh, who presided in the 1880s, was more successful, being complimented by the magistrate on the way he conducted his house, dealing with larrikins demanding free drinks, and hosting supper meetings for the Fitzroy Lodge of Instruction, a Masonic group of which he was a member.
Jones, Henry 1853; Flett, John 1857-59; Mossman, James 1858; Dixon, John 1860; Davidson, Duncan 1861; Stevens, H 1862; Hamilton, David 1863; Mossman, J 1864-1865; McCarthy, Daniel 1866-1876; Trotter, Thomas 1877; Hannaway, Ann Mrs 1878; Benson, Charles 1879-1881; Pugh, C Walsh 1882-1887; Holland, Elizabeth Mrs 1888; Orelli, Susan Mrs 1889-1890; Chadwick, Thomas 1891; Horgan, Samuel 1892; Gallivan, Norah 1895; Foy, Patrick 1899; Egan, Norah Mrs 1900; Williams, E Mrs 1901; Noonan, Sarah 1901; Osborn, Ellen 1902; Mahood, L A E 1902; Hayes, Michael 1902; Hayes, Mary J 1902; Chanter, Mary 1902; Rogers, Martha 1903; McDonald, Joseph 1903; Bryant, Sarah Mrs 1903; Redhead, Frederick 1904; Newberry, Sarah E 1904; Rodgers, Alice Mrs 1905; Allen, Jessie Miss 1905; Scarlett, Ada Mrs 1907-1908.