Collingwood Hotels Database search
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Hotel:Alliance Hotel
Suburb:Collingwood
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)
Hotel:Ayrshire Arms Hotel
Suburb:Collingwood
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)
Hotel:Baden Powell Hotel
Suburb:Collingwood
61 Victoria Parade
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Baden Powell Hotel (1900 to present)
New Bendigo Hotel (1872 - 1899)
1872
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Existing hotel
Renovated during the inter-war period in the Moderne style; windows later altered
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Part C, pp. 633-634
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Contributory to HO 336
Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1197 & 1198, 1899.
Almost the first publican was Yorkshireman Joseph Brownhill, who was at the helm from 1873 until his death in 1891, when, in a common pattern for publicans, his wife Fanny took over. Brownhill had previously been licensee at the Norfolk Hotel in Easey Street.
The name of this hotel was changed in 1900 to commemorate Robert Baden-Powell. During the Second Boer War, Baden-Powell became a national hero for his role in the Siege of Mafeking, 1899-1900, the most famous British action in the Second Boer War.
The hotel was renovated again in 2008-2009; with the exception of enlarged ground floor windows, the exterior has not greatly changed.
Hotel:Barnard's Hotel
Suburb:Collingwood
32 Peel Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Barnard's Hotel (1869 - 1914)
In 1871 Barnard applied to change the name to Barnard's Family Hotel, but there is no indication that this was put into effect.
1869
1914
Commercial premises
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Part B, pp. 454-455
Volume 3, Appendix B, individually listed within precinct
Individually significant within HO318
Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1201, 1899
William Barnard, a baker, owned a three-roomed timber shop on this site in 1868. The following year he built three brick shops, the corner one of which became the hotel. Barnard was the licensed victualler for many years, and also continued to conduct his business as a baker, pastrycook and confectioner until his death at the age of 74 in 1902. Barnard's probate documents include a detailed list of all the contents, ranging from the bakery cart and horse, to jars of jam, from bottles of liquor to numbers of glasses. The hotel and shops were bequeathed to his housekeeper Ann Dougherty, who shortly afterwards married James Condon. The couple continued the hotel and bakery businesses until the hotel was closed by the Licenses Reduction Board in 1914.
The hotel and adjacent shops form a pleasing example of bi-chrome brickwork. This is a building style for which the Collingwood Slope is noted, used in buildings ranging from the towering Yorkshire Brewery to small cottages.
Hotel:Bell Inn
Suburb:Collingwood
Perry Street, outhwest corner Palmer Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Bell Inn (1860 - 1871)
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1860
1871
Demolished before 1899
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Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: N/A
Brick building with 11 rooms (Rate Book 1867). Not long after opening the Bell Inn was embroiled in a public controversy, played out in the East Collingwood courthouse and the pages of The Argus.
GUARDIANS OF THE PUBLIC MORALS
To the Editor of The Argus
Sir, _ As the police force are paid by the public for performing certain duties, I think it is but right that those duties should be performed in a manner quite different from the following.
On the evening of 2nd instant a sergeant and constable (both on duty) were drinking at the bar of the Bell Inn, Perry-street, East Collingwood, for upwards of two hours. The constable was afterwards carried home drunk by his wife, and had been previously seen rolling drunk in the public street with the landlord of the hotel.
AN OBSERVER
( The Argus, 9 July 1860, p. 5)
Landlord Samuel Colls responded angrily in print the following day, denying these allegations. The case against sergeant James Burns and constable Philip Meade was heard in court in what was described by The Argus as a 'peculiar and important case' and reported in great detail the following day. The charges were dismissed. ( The Argus 25 July 1860, p. 7).
Hotel:Bendigo Hotel
Suburb:Collingwood
125 Johnston Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Bendigo Hotel (1888 - present)
Collingwood Arms Hotel (1871-1887)
1871
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Existing hotel
Demolished and rebuilt 1911
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Part A, pp. 282-284
Volume 3, Appendix B, individually listed within precinct
Individually significant within HO 324
Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: 1197 & 1198, 1899 (Note wrongly labelled Bedford Hotel)
Carlton Brewery bought the hotel in 1887. They demolished and replaced the old two-storey corner building in 1911, after purchasing additional land to increase the exposure to Johnston Street. The current hotel was built in an Art Nouveau influenced style, designed by Sydney Smith and Ogg.
An excellent photograph taken by Wolfgang Sievers in 1964 shows the distinctive 1911 style as it was meant to look. By the time John T Collins photographed the building in the early 1980s, paintwork had obscured the distinctive red brick and cement exterior but the overall design with two corner towers remains very striking.
The current hotel has a website at http://www.bendigohotel.com.au
Hotel:Beresford Arms Hotel
Suburb:Collingwood
Langridge Street, northeast corner Rokeby Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Beresford Arms Hotel (1868 - 1908)
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Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1201, 1899
The hotel opened in 1868 with a bar, two sitting rooms and three bedrooms. Local drinkers were well-served, as the Lord Nelson was already situated on the southeast corner of the intersection. It was closed by a ruling of the Licenses Reduction Board in 1908, when it was described as a very old, dilapidated, one-storey wooden structure, very poorly furnished. Constable Carlin stated that during the last seven years the hotel had been noted for trading in prohibited hours. Whenever he approached the place on Sundays, a number of men round about it scurried away, and it was common to see people coming through holes in the fence which enclosed a vacant piece of land adjoining the hotel. Another deposition described the Beresford Arms as 'the meeting place of undesirable characters, particularly after dark and on Sundays'. ( The Argus, 19 February 1908, p. 4)
It was hardly surprising, after such evidence, that the hotel was ordered to be closed.
Hotel:Brandon Hotel
Suburb:Collingwood
84 Smith Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Brandon Hotel (1897 - 1914)
City of Norwich Hotel (1865 - 1867), Gray's Hotel (1868 - 1872), London Hotel (1873 - 1880), Our Boys Hotel (1880), Flying Squadron Hotel (1881 - 1896)
1865
1914
Commercial premises
1870s?
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Contributory to HO333
Kearney 1855: N/A ; Hodgkinson 1858: N/A ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1208, 1899
The 1867 rate book describes this as a six-roomed brick hotel, conducted by Mary Ann Tonkin. The existing building is certainly the same one that was there in the 1880s, but seems likely to have been re-built, perhaps in the early 1870s, as it is now one of a very similar group of shops which replaced shops which in 1867 were of timber construction.
The hotel changed publicans even more frequently than it changed its name. Luckily William Cuffley was there for long enough to have a photo taken for posterity. By 1883 Cuffley, who had operated a number of hotels around Melbourne and from 1878 until 1882 had been licensee at Steeth's Family Hotel in Wellington Street, was ensconced at the Flying Squadron where he stayed for four years. Family reminiscence has him as a kind and jovial sort of fellow - well suited to the role of publican. Alongside William and his wife in the photograph dating from the mid 1880s is his niece Emma Rosina Evans, whom he had taken in after she was widowed. The name of the hotel at this time refers to a British naval squadron.
Hotel:Bristol and Bath Hotel
Suburb:Collingwood
66 Cromwell Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Bristol and Bath Hotel (1869 - 1908)
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1869
1908
Boutique bordello
c. 1879
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Volume 2, Building Citations, Part 1, pp. 101-102
HO 97 individually significant
Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson: 1858: N ; MMBW map: Detail Plan 1210, 1899 (named Bath Hotel)
A stone hotel was on this site from at least 1869, but was re-built at some stage, possibly around 1879 (as evidenced by an increase in rateable value). In 1903 it was acquired by the Shamrock Brewery and in 1908 by Carlton & United Breweries. After de-licensing it became a residence.
The building is of local architectural significance, a free standing two storey symmetrical Italianate brick building with restrained decoration. It is particularly noteworthy nowadays that most surrounding nineteenth century housing has been demolished, leaving it standing in the midst of unprepossessing twentieth century industrial development as a testament to a lifestyle long gone.
Hotel:British Crown Hotel
Suburb:Collingwood
14 Smith Street, northeast corner Mason Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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British Crown Hotel (2008 - present)
British Crown Hotel (1860 - 1983), Smith Street Bar & Bistro (1984 - 2008)
1859-1860
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Existing hotel
Extended to include numbers 16 and 18.
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Individually significant within HO333
Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1208, 1899
James Cattach was the first publican from 1859 to 1867, and again from 1873 to 1877. In the twentieth century the Roberts family ran this hotel for 74 years. Catherine Roberts arrived from Sydney in the early 1900s, took over the upbringing of her recently orphaned four nieces and a nephew, and bought a pub. Her nephew Jack took over the licence in 1956, and he and his sister Katherine Hackett ran the place until August 1982, with irregular assistance from sisters Noreen, Joan and Pattie.
When my mother died auntie brought the five of us up. We lived above the hotel and boarded at Star of the Sea. The pub was a tiny little place then. We built on as the years went by. Aunty was a wonderful woman, one of those people everyone admired. She kept us kids out of the bar... we used to peep around the door to see what was going on. Everyone called her Aunt - it was known as Aunt's hotel and after her death as Jack's hotel. She was very regal. She'd tap on the counter and say "Come on now boys, you go home" I don't remember Collingwood being a tough place ... This block in Smith Street was really lovely then... It was a real community. Everyone knew each other.... Smith Street used to be so busy, you couldn't move here on a Friday night before the war, when there was late night shopping. It used to be good fun, we had a lovely crowd. They just went mad when Collingwood won the Premiership. We had to close at 6 pm, but people would dance in the streets.
(The Melbourne Times, 18 August 1982, pp. 1, 7)
After a period of time during which it was called the Smith Street Bar and Bistro, the hotel reverted to its original name in 2008.