Collingwood Hotel Listing:
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Hotel:Goldy's Tavern
66 Gold Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Collingwood
Goldy's Tavern (c. 2020 to present)
Leinster Arms Hotel (1863/4 to c. 2020)
66 Gold Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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1863/64
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Existing hotel
1930
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Volume 3, Appendix B, individually listed under precinct
Individually significant within HO 321
Kearney 1855: N/A ; Hodgkinson 1858: N/A ; MMBW: Detail plan 1235, 1901
This hotel site reflects strong Irish connections in both name and publicans. Leinster is a province of Ireland and a source of a popular name for hotels both in Victoria and Ireland. The original bluestone building was owned and operated by various members of the McDonnell family until the death of John McDonnell in 1870, when another Irishman, Patrick Quinlivan, paid the executors 80 pounds for the goodwill and annual rental of 100 pounds. Quinlivan remained until 1882 and was followed by John Cahill, then Patrick Fitzpatrick and later Mary Cahir, who presided from 1926 until 1940.
The hotel was acquired by the Shamrock Brewing Company which undertook alterations in 1930. The hotel is very distinctive in appearance, with its clinker-brick and render Greek revival style standing in a street of mainly Victorian and Edwardian houses. The use of brick-on-edge detailing is unusual. It is also unusual as a rare surviving single-storey hotel.
The Leinster Arms was a friendly 'home-away-from-home' for locals for many years, under the management of Glen and Wilhelmina McGee. Dining areas provided a more upmarket venue for meals and drinks, but there were still a number of ‘old boys’ propping up the bar who had been frequenting the hotel for many a long year. The retirement of these publicans after 18 years presaged a change. They closed, fittingly, after Grand Final day and put the hotel up for sale, and for a short while there was doubt whether this appealing local hostelry would continue, especially as Covid took its toll. However, it has kept going, but with noticeable changes including a new name, a younger and perhaps more boisterous clientele, a simplified dining menu, and a 'parklet' exterior area very popular in the summer months.