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Publicans

  • Abigail Foulkes

    Abigail Searls was born in Rochester, New York on 18th Mary 1838. Her father died when she was only two...
  • Belmont Hotel

    The first known references to the Belmont Hotel were in February 1857 when the Argus ran an articles calling...
  • Bird in the Hand Hotel

    Elisha Evans, publican of the Bird in the Hand Hotel, first comes to our attention on 21 April 1867 when the...
  • Bridge Hotel 1871 - 1921

    In December 1871 John Brown applied for a license for a hotel in Northcote which was described as not yet...
  • Butchers' Arms Hotel

    The Butchers' Arms Hotel briefly flickered into life in 1867-1868. We know little else about it. The publican...
  • Charles Brock

    Charles Brock was the long standing publican at the Council Club Hotel at 853 High Street Preston, opposite...
  • Charles Senior

    Charles and Mary Senior took over the running of the Alphington Hotel from 19 June 1911. On the 14th August...
  • Croxton Park Hotel

    The Croxton Park Hotel began life on 27 April 1844 when Robert Duff was granted a license for a hotel on...
  • Denis Bowes (c1835 - unknown )

    Tipperary born Denis Bowes arrived in Northcote around 1859 with his wife Sarah Bowes (formerly Kilcary)....
  • Elizabeth Ralph

    In April 1889, Frederick Hurst transferred the title of the Junction Hotel – a large 15 room establishment at...
  • Ellen Jones

    When Ellen Jones started at the Commercial Hotel in 1891 with her husband Michael, little did she realise...
  • Emily Elvins

    In July 1903 Emily Junker became the seventh publican at the Grandview Hotel, replacing Austin Harkin who had...
  • Horace Bastings

    Horace Bastings was born in Islington, London in 1831 and arrived in Northcote either in the late 1840s or...
  • Hotel Licencing and the Temperance Movement

    The Licences Reduction Board was formed by the Victorian Government in 1907 in an effort to curb the number...
  • John Roberts

    John Roberts had been in farmer in Northcote in the early 1860s before opening the Carters’ Arms Hotel...
  • Josiah (Joseph) Goyder

    Josiah Goyder bought the Pilgrim Inn in High Street, Northcote in 1865 and renamed it the Red House, having...
  • Mary Cora Negri

    The longest serving of all Darebin’s publicans was Mary Cora Negri. In 1927 she took over the licence of the...
  • Merrilands Hotel

    The Merrilands Hotel was located on the Reservoir - Epping Road just north of Reservoir railway station,...
  • Northcote Arms Hotel

    The Northcote Arms Hotel originated in November 1853 when the firm of Wharton & Burns requested...
  • Peacock Hotel

    On 7 September 1854 Horace William Bastings was granted a license for the Peacock Inn. It was certainly in...
  • Pigeon shooting in Darebin

    In 1858 Samuel Brownlow, publican at the Northcote Arms Hotel organised a pigeon shooting contest at his...
  • Pilgrim Inn - Darebin's first hotel

    On 27th April 1844 Robert Duff was granted a license for a hotel on Plenty Road to be known at the Pilgrim...
  • Robert Duff

    On the 18th November 1833 the barque Edward Coulston arrived in Sydney from Liverpool. Amongst its passengers...
  • Roscrea Hotel (1857 - 1872)

    The first mention of the Roscrea Hotel is in The Argus on 3 December 1857 when Denis Bowes applied for a...
  • Rose, Shamrock and Thistle Hotel [1854 - ]

    At the April 1854 session of the Annual Licensing Meeting for the District of Bourke, ex convict Charles...
  • Samuel Brownlow

    Samuel Brownlow was first mentioned in the Argus newspaper on 31 August 1854 when he was one of a number of...
  • Tower Hotel

    In July 1866 Thomas Kinsella transferred the license of the Half-way House Hotel to Emanuel King, gentleman...
  • Vine Tree Hotel

    The Vine Tree Hotel opened on Heidelberg Road in Alphington in 1868. It was probably located in a small...
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