Hotels in Launceston to 1900
1827 Robert Heany, Waterloo Tavern, Charles Street
1829 R. Henney, Waterloo Tavern, Charles Street
1830 Richard Heaney, Waterloo Tavern, Charles Street
Later Ship Inn
Hobart Town Courier, 5 April 1828
There are few mentions of the Waterloo outside of licensing notices.
Launceston Advertiser, 21 May 1830
SW corner of Brisbane & St John Streets.
1831-32 Ann Hardman, Brisbane and St John St
1834 Ann Hardman, Manchester Arms, Brisbane St
1835 William Mason, Manchester Arms, Brisbane St
Launceston Advertiser, 28 September 1831
Cameron St
cnr George & Brisbane Sts
Later Half Moon Inn
1831 William Evans, Joiners’ Arms, Cameron-street
1832-33 David Williams, Joiner’s Arms, George and Brisbane streets.
Launceston Advertiser, 28 September 1831
Launceston Advertiser, 21 November 1833
Launceston Advertiser, 12 March 1835
Change of occupier and name to the Half-moon Inn
Launceston Advertiser, 8 October 1835
George Street
Corner of George and Brisbane Street
George & Brisbane St site previously Joiner’s Arms.
1834 John Reece, Half Moon, [George Street] Launceston
1835 John Reece, Half Moon, [George and] Brisbane Streets
1835 Hannah Reece, Half Moon Inn, Launceston
1836 Henry Reading, Half Moon, George [and Brisbane] Streets
1836 George Williams, Half Moon
1836-40 Thomas Faro, Half Moon, George [and Brisbane] Streets
Later licensed as Bird in Hand.
Launceston Advertiser, 12 March 1835
Launceston Advertiser, 8 October 1835
Tamar St, near bridge
1829-1862
The best I can tell it was on the east side of Tamar Street, on or beside the Esplanade (now Boland St), which is shown below. The hotel on the corner is Tynan’s Hotel, constructed 1888.
cnr of Tamar and Cimitiere Street
1833 John Griffith
1834-35 William Griffiths
1836-40 John Jacob Driver
This seems to have been in at least two locations. The first one, which seems to have been short lived, was no longer a licenses premises by March 1834 (see advertisment below). The second location wsa in Tamar (Bridge) Street. In the later advertisments the references to Tamar, Cimitiere & William St might all referring to property marked with an X on the Smythe’s map of 1835, or they might be referring to different locations and therefore different buildings. I am looking into it.
Also using the map above, there is only one corner of Tamar and Cimitiere that has buildings marked, shown here with a red arrow.
Wharf
1832-33 George Hubbart
1833-34 Joseph Thorn
Hobart Town Courier, 28 September 1832
Launceston Advertiser, 27 June 1833
Charles Street?
Lower St John St.
1838 Edmund Bartlett, Victoria Tavern
1839-40 Edmund Bartlett, Victoria Tavern, St. John-street
Moved to corner of George & York Streets.
Hobart Town Courier, 16 February 1838
cnr Charles and York Streets
1826–27 Robert Towers, Caledonia Hotel, Charles Street
1828-35 Mungo Sommerville, Caledonian, Charles Street
1836-37 George Sinclair Brodie, Caledonia Wine Vaults
1838 George Milne, Caledonian Tavern
1840 James McLeish, Caledonian Wine Vaults, Charles Street
Later
Colonial Times, 1 September 1826
Hobart Town Courier, 19 April 1828
George and William Streets. Possible location.
This is a T-junction, so there are only two corners, and the prisoner barracks/penitentiary was on the SW corner. The remaining SE corner is this one:
1835 James Griffiths, Globe Inn, Launceston
1836 Thomas Faro, Globe Inn, George & William Streets
Launceston Advertiser, 4 June 1835
Cornwall Chronicle, 8 August 1835
Launceston Advertiser, 18 February 1836
Cornwall Chronicle, 5 November 1836
Cornwall Chronicle, 8 July 1837