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Stanley Street, south side, corner Cambridge Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Caledonian Hotel (1868 - 1870)

Good Samaritan Hotel (1866 - 1867)

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Demolished

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Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Not verified

This hotel was listed as a wooden hotel with eight or nine rooms (Rate Book 1867, 1870). The publican was kept under the watchful eye of the local police:

SUNDAY TRADING AT CALEDONIA HOTEL, STANLEY ST

At the East Collingwood Police Court, William Sharp appeared for selling liquor on a Sunday at the Caledonia Hotel. The defendant was described from the witness box as the keeper of a shanty, but the police seemed to find it difficult to catch him tripping, in the way of Sunday trading, from the fact that it was the practice on Sundays to view the customers through a small hole, cut in the door and glazed, before giving them admission. Sergeant Fenton had seen a woman enter the house with a jug under her apron and come out again, where upon he entered.

Sergeant Fenton, on Sunday last, managed to get in without undergoing this preliminary survey, and found three men in the parlour drinking beer and two in the bar, the landlord behind the bar. For the defence, it was sworn by one of the three men that the whole of them were lodgers and that they did not pay for the beer, as it was given to them with their lunch. There was no evidence to show that the other two men were drinking, so the Bench dismissed the case, although, as they said, they had no doubt in their own minds that the drinks were sold and paid for.

( The Argus 8 October 1870 )

[129] Cambridge Street, west side between Peel and Stanley Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Cambridge Arms Hotel (1853 - 1908)

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1853

1908

Demolished early twentieth century; Foy and Gibson building constructed on site

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Kearney 1855: N; Hodgkinson 1858: Y ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1201, 1899

By the time that the Licensing Reduction Board ruled that the hotel was to close, Carlton & United Breweries was the owner of the two-storey bluestone building. In July 1908 the Board took evidence as to the compensation payable to owners and licensees of delicensed hotels in Collingwood.

In the case of the Cambridge Arms Hotel, Cambridge Street expert evidence was called to show the value of the building with and without a licence.

'The building is old, of bluestone, but very substantial and it would cost 150 pounds to convert it to a dwelling. If a factory were built on it might return up to 7 per cent. For the licensee Mrs Margaret Thompson... it was contended that owing to her ill-health the takings had fallen very low, and did not represent the fair value of the license'.

( The Argus, 15 July 1908, p. 4)

31 Gold Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Carters Arms Hotel (1872 - 1914)

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1872

1914

Residential

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Individually significant within HO 321

Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1237, 1900

Mary O'Brien was the licensee in the 1890s and featured in the newspaper in relation to items ranging from a Sunday trading fine, to paying damages for injuries caused to a little girl who was bitten by her dog while playing in the street, to being the victim of theft of money from the bar.

In the twentieth century larrikins were making life difficult for local people:

The 'push' element is making its undesirable presence felt again in Collingwood. On Saturday evening at 11 pm, seven men entered the bar of the Carter's Arms... drinks for the party being called for. These were served but it soon became apparent that the men were on mischief bent. An attempt was made to rush the bar-parlour, but Mrs George Raiswell wife of the licensee promptly... locked the door. It was fortunate that she did so, for a moment later a soda bottle whizzed through the glass panel of another door and struck the door which Mrs Raiswell had just closed. A second crash was heard - this time windows in the billiard room being smashed. The cry of 'Police' was raised and the unwelcome visitors made off. Proceeding towards Johnston Street, some of the men tore pickets off the fences surrounding two houses and one was hurled through a plate glass window. The next scene of action was in the vicinity of the Engineers Arms in Johnston Street... Police arrived and took a hand in quelling the disturbance, which was witnessed by a crowd composed of several hundreds... Residents of Gold Street complain that their slumbers are disturbed, more especially on Saturday nights after the hotels are closed by 'pushes' the members of which sing ribald songs, make use of vile language and misconduct themselves generally.

( The Argus, 3 February 1914, p. 8)

[32] Derby Street, Collingwood, near Oxford Street; later southeast corner of Langridge Street and Oxford Street, Collingwood
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Clifton Hotel (1853 - 1914)

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1853

1914

Demolished by 1937

1883

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Kearney 1855: Y ; Hodgkinson 1858: Y ; MMBW: Detail plan 1208, 1899

The original hotel was a stone building with ten rooms (Rate Book 1864, 1868) facing Derby Street, next door to the Clifton Assembly Rooms where a school was conducted from 1856 to 1877. It was many years later that Langridge Street was extended through from Wellington Street to Smith Street and created a direct link with Gertrude Street. The owner perhaps thought that this through road would be a more prominent site than Derby Street, and shortly after the road was completed Thomas Watts and Sons called for tenders for the erection of a two-storey hotel on the corner of Langridge and Oxford streets ( The Argus 14 August 1883, p. 3). It is possible that the new hotel was built on the same plot of land, but facing the opposite direction.

It was closed by a decision of the Licenses Reduction Board. Around 1937 a building was constructed taking up the whole of the site from Derby Street to Langridge Street on the site formerly occupied by the hotel buildings.

62 Smith Street, Collingwood
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Commercial Hotel (1869 - 1919)

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Date on pediment 1866, first licence 1869

1919

Commercial premises

Bi-chrome brick exterior was probably later rendered after 1887. Corner door and adjoining windows altered in recent years.

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Contributory to HO333

Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail plan 1208, 1899

Is seeing believing? Although the date on the pediment seems like a good piece of evidence, sources such as licensing records, rate books, and Sands and McDougall directories suggest it was not yet built in 1866. An 1880s photo of Langridge Street shows the side wall in brick. If the whole building was rendered after this time, the date may have been added then and relied on inaccurate data.

The first publican was Elijah Horwood who remained as publican from 1869 until 1884.

From 1930 until the 1970s the building housed the office of G.D. Langridge & Son, estate agents. In recent years the ground floor has been further altered to suit office/shop uses.

40 Johnston Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Council Club Hotel (1885 - 1936)

Council Hotel (1858 - 1884)

1858

1936

Substantially re-built in brick and extended after 1910, but at least one original wall remains - the bluestone west wall can be glimpsed in the tiny gap between two buildings.

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Volume 3, p. 93, mention in description of HO315 Johnston Street Precinct

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Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail plan 1238, 1900 (not named)

The name refers to the council chambers, which were located on the opposite side of Johnston Street prior to the building of the Collingwood Town Hall in the 1880s. The bluestone hotel was in the 1870s owned by Henry "Money" Miller, an investor who gave up politics in 1867 to concentrate on amassing city properties and pastoral holdings.

'On Wednesday evening last, the grand officers of the United Ancient Order of Druids assembled at Dredge's Council Hotel, Johnston-st, for the purpose of opening a new lodge. The President having initiated 43 members, the dispensation under which the lodge is held was read and the Lodge declared duly opened under the name of "The Prince Alfred". Brother Morffew D.P. of No 4 District was elected as arch-druid for the first term.'

( The Argus, 31/3/1871)

115-117 [formerly 103] Johnston Street, Collingwood
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Criterion Hotel (1912 - 1914)

Galloway Arms (1854 - 1911)

18541914

Restaurant (115); charity office (117)

1888

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Volume 3, p. 93, mention in description of HO315 Johnston Street Precinct

Individually significant within HO 324

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

The original hotel was a wooden structure, charmingly depicted by watercolourist Henry Gritten at the time when Abraham Howgate was the licensee after very brief stints by Robert McDuff and Frederick Poole. It was later rebuilt in two-storeyed Italianate style. James Page, a man active in local affairs and elected to council in the 1860s, was owner and licensee from at least 1861 until at least 1874. The owner until his death in 1910 was also called James Page, but may have been the son of the same name; both generations of the family lived at the hotel.

At the Licenses Reduction Board sittings in March 1908, James Page and licensee Mrs Rosetta McCully appeared. Page reported that the hotel had been rebuilt to meet the requirements of the Licensing inspector in 1888. Police reported that the house was well built and well conducted under the present licensee, though it had been not been so under previous licensees. Mrs McCully stated she had taken over in August 1907:

"There was a rough class of customers at the place then but she cleared them out, refurnished the place, and made a new start. The trade was steadily growing, and the customers were all of a very respectable class."

The Argus, 7 March 1908, p. 2

The hotel was allowed to continue trading continued trading but in April 1914 the Licenses Reduction Board handed down a decision that it was one of the hotels in excess in the Darling Ward.

The upper floor exterior of the building is substantially intact although the windows of 115 have been altered; the name and construction date can be seen on the pediment in raised letters. The ground floor has been completely altered for subsequent offices and shops on the premises.

Langridge Street, northwest corner Rokeby Street
c 3066
Australia
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Crown and Anchor Hotel (1883 - 1908)

Lord Nelson Hotel (1864? - 1873), Glasgow Arms Hotel (1873 - 1878), Yorkshire Arms Hotel (1878 - 1882)

1868

1908

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Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1209, 1899

The early history of this hotel is shrouded in mystery and needs more research. We know that by 1864 it was housed in a brick building owned and conducted by Richard Peters, and that by 1868 it was called the Lord Nelson Hotel. It may have existed prior to 1864, and it may have had a different name in its first years of existence.

At a sitting of the Licenses Reduction Board in 1908, it was described as 'damp, dirty and dilapidated'. It contained nine rooms, was poorly furnished, and had no accommodation for lodgers. The owner explained that he had not spent any money on improvements because the hearing was imminent, but was of the opinion that given its central position, with improvements it would make a good hotel. ( The Argus, 21 February 1908, p. 3)