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314 Smith Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Albion Hotel (2023 - present)

Albion Hotel (1874/75 - 1989); Albion Inn (c.1990 - c.1995); Punters Palace (c. 1995 - c. 2021); Perry's Refreshment Club (2022 - 2023))

1874

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Existing hotel

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Part C, p. 569, p. 586

Volume 3, Appendix B, individually listed under precinct

Individually significant within HO333

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

On a corner site with a notable richly-decorated design including decorative use of grapes and vine leaves, the hotel was built for Patrick Coyle who had previously owned a house on the site and was the publican at the Grace Darling Hotel. The first licensee was Patrick Devern. After some years as the slightly insalubrious 'Punters Palace', it was purchased by local brewer Bodriggy who renovated it in 2021 and 2022 and gave it a brief life as a 'refreshment club' before thankfully reinstating its original name.

Northwest corner Cambridge and Derby Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Alliance Hotel (1869 - 1871)

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1869

1871

Demolished between 1872 and 1889. Corner shop now on site has date 1889 on pediment.

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Kearney 1855: N; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: N/A

In The Argus of 4 December 1869, the publican advertised that he wanted to purchase 'a good second-hand beer-engine'. (p. 7)

52A Palmer Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Ayrshire Arms Hotel (1871 - 1908)

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1871

1908

residence

Corner doorway bricked up, later window added facing Perry Street

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Part B, pp. 430-431

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Contributory to HO324

Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1197 & 1198, 1899.

There are a number of large and ornate hotels in Collingwood; this small mid-Victorian hotel is at the other end of the spectrum. Its restrained architectural details, size, and location in a minor street are indicative of a type of hotel serving a localised clientele, probably in humble circumstances. Most hotels of this type were de-licensed in the early twentieth century, and many were demolished. That this one remains is a lucky chance for us to gain some insight into a past lifestyle.

At the Licenses Reduction Board hearing in 1908

Arthur Darby, licensee, said he had a fair class of customers amongst the labouring classes. Very few of the 'belltopper gentlemen' came to his hotel. He denied that the hotel was damp. In reply to Inspector Dungey, witness said he had done some Sunday trading, but a few Sundays ago Constable Roxby visited the hotel and gave him a scare. Since then he had not done any but had taken a position as driver for a cordial manufacturer, so as to make up for the loss which he was sustaining through abstaining from Sunday trading.
The Argus, 28 February 1908. p. 9

Shortly after giving up its licence, the hotel was auctioned with the following description: 'Delicensed hotel... very substantial, brick, slated, one-storey building, 9 rooms; in good repair; now let at 2 pounds weekly... well-adapted for business and residence.' ( The Argus, 23 December 1908, p.2)