Collingwood Hotels Listing

Johnston Street (grounds of former Collingwood Technical School)
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Collingwood

Limerick Castle Hotel (1907 -1914)

Quarryman's Arms (1854 - 1870), Engineers Arms (1871 - 1906)

Johnston Street (grounds of former Collingwood Technical School)
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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1854

1914

Demolished

c.1889

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Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: Y ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1196, 1900

The original Quarryman's Arms was a stone building; its first licensed victualler was Thomas Opie. At the time of its auction in May 1877 it comprised 11 rooms, bar, a lodge-room suitable for Oddfellows meetings, a ten stall stable and a cemented underground tank. The hotel was rebuilt in 1889 and can be seen in a c.1912 photograph, which shows an ornate two-storey brick building with the construction date on the corner section of the pediment. Although not on a street corner, the architect has made good use of the narrow right of way to create a desirable splayed corner entrance. Publicans James and Margaret Tonini stand in the doorway. The hotel incorporated a tobacconist and barber's on the ground floor, and Tonini ran this business before moving into hotelkeeping around 1911. (There is an anomaly about the photograph, in that only the name Engineers' Arms can be seen, not the new name Limerick Castle).

Prior to Tonini's arrival, licensee Mrs Annie Featherby found herself the target of criticism at the Licensing Reduction Board sittings on 6 March 1908. The pub was suspected of Sunday trading, after-hours trading, and gambling (the latter also supposedly taking place at the tobacconist's), though nothing had been proved and no charges laid. While the hotel escaped closure at this time, it was closed down at a later round in 1914. John Wren's tote at what is now 148 Johnston Street, not far from this hotel, had been closed down in January 1907, so local punters would have been glad of another gambling outlet! (See Wren's tote ) The tobacconist and barber's business continued after the hotel ceased functioning. James (Jim) Tonini became a Collingwood councillor from 1918 to 1934 (Mayor in 1923-24) and from 1936 to 1947. The hotel building was eventually demolished to make way for the expansion of Collingwood Technical School.

Quarryman’s Arms: Opie, Thomas 1854-1857; Moseman, James 1858; De Gruchy, Thomas 1859-1861; Hackney, R 1862; Opie, T 1863; Evans, J 1864-1865; White, Thomas 1866; Shaw, H S 1866; Gillingsworth, G 1866; Evans, J 1866; Shaw, H S 1867, Gillingsworth 1867; White, Johanna Mrs 1868-1869; Christmas, Edward 1870. Engineers Arms: Dodds, John 1871-1876; Press, Alfred 1877; Trotter, Alfred 1878; Davies, George 1879; Murphy, John 1880; Spreadbury, John 1881; Bolas, S 1882; Meagher, James 1883; McQuerney, John 1884; Norton, James 1885; Lennox, E N Mrs 1886, Knowles, Robert 1889; Carroll, M A 1890; Rosmussen, A 1891; Campbell, Archie 1892; Hughes, Henry 1894-1899; Barber, Mary 1902; Griffen, Thomas 1903; Granrott, Ellen 1904; Kennedy, Margaret 1905; Hogan, Catherine 1905; Pearman, Ethel 1906; Taylor, Ellen Mrs 1909; Featherby, Annie 1909; Turner, Ellen 1910; Tonini, Margaret C 1911; Tonini, James 1911; Lavell, Martha 1913. Limerick Castle:  (closed 1914 but licensees seem to be for Engineers Arms until then??)