Hotel:Londonderry Hotel

Suburb:

Collingwood

Hotel Address:

Wellington Street, northeast corner of Vere Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Hotel ID No

50

Most Recent Name:

Londonderry Hotel (1858 - 1925)

Previous Name(s):

N/A

When Built/Licenced:

1858

When Delicensed:

1925

Status of Building:

Demolished by 1969

Rebuilt/Altered:

N/A

Heritage Victoria Register:

N/A

National Trust Register:

N/A

Collingwood Conservation Study 1989 & 1995:

N/A

City of Yarra Heritage Review 1998:

N/A

City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas, 2007 & Heritage Database:

N/A

Maps:

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

Comments:

James and Martha Sawyers were associated with this hotel for many years as publican and owner. Shortly before its closure in 1925, licensee Terence Callaghan was running a dairy in Easey Street while his daughter Annie looked after the day-to-day running of the hotel. They became embroiled in a conspiracy case involving police detectives who placed stolen property at the hotel, then demanded money to cover it up. ( The Argus, 21 July 1925, p. 24)

Housing Commission of Victoria high rise flats were built on this site in the late 1960s.