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Temperance Coffee House — Cornwall Coffee House

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St John Street
Paterson St.  Approximate location on Google Maps.

1839-40 John Stoneham, Temperance Coffee House, St John Street (near church)
1841 John Stoneham, Temperance Coffee House, St John Street (near wharf, formerly George Inn)
1842-45 John Stoneham, Temperance Coffee House, St John Street Paterson Street
1845 George Layton, Cornwall Coffee House1845 George Layton, Paterson St
1845-51 licensed as the White Horse
1852-54 John Thompson, Cornwall Coffee Rooms, Paterson Street

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Paterson St, December 2016. The Coffee Rooms adjoined the old Examiner building  (the red, white & yellow building), so on the site of the brick and glass addition.

The leftmost, white building. (71-77 Paterson Street, photo by Lloyd George Webb, 1974, from Tasmanian Archives, LPIC33/3/164
1949 National Hotel on the corner. Coffee Rooms are two doors along, the shortest bilding.
(Cropped from photo in QVMAG collection (QVM:2006:P:0065)


On the left. (Cropped from photo in QVMAG Collection, QVM:2002:P:0014.)

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Enfield Hotel (1)

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Brisbane Street (cnr of the Kingsway)

1845 Manwairing & Baetholomew Chitty, Enfield Hotel, Brisbane Street
1846-49 Edward Greenbeck, Enfield Hotel, Brisbane Street
1849-1861 Thomas Hill, Enfield Hotel, Brisbane Street

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Courier, 22 February 1845

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The Courier, 27 February 1845

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** Prince Albert Inn

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Charles and Elizabeth St

(inomplete)
1867 Martin Blake

Cornwall Chronicle, 5 October 1867
Cornwall Chronicle, 5 October 1867

The Workmen’s Club has boon removed from Patterson-street to the promises at the corner of Charles and Elizabeth-streets, formerly the Prince Albert Hotel, and formal possession was taken on the the inst., when supper-was given. An excellent spread was provided and a very pleasant evening was passed, the President, Adye Douglas, E q., occupying the chair.
Launceston Examiner, 18 June 1868

** Duke of York

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Wellington Street.

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Cornwall Chronicle, 15 August 1846

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Cornwall Chronicle, 2 September 1846

Edward Fiddyment, from Duke of York, Wellington-street, to premises on the opposite side of the street, to be called the Lord Raglan. Mr. Rlocher and Mr. A. Douglas appeared to support the application.
Major Welman stated his opinion in favor of the application on the ground that Mr. Fiddyment was a respectable man and that the house occupied by him at present is in a very dilapidated state, where as and the one to which it was intended to transfer the license was a new one.
The Chairman questioned whether they had the power to transfer a license from one premises to other.
Mr. Rocher quoted the section of the Act referring to granting of transfers, and submitted that it was at the discretion of the meeting whether they granted a transfer from one house to another.
Mr. Douglas said that if the house was in such a dilapidated state the Justices would in a manner impose a penalty upon the applicant in refusing to grant the transfer and thereby compelling him to get a now licence; he considered that as the laws in this colony were getting more liberal than they were some years ago the section of the act should have a liberal construction put upon it; and in the applicants case nobody could possibly be a sufferer by the transfer but some would be gainers.
The Chairman observed that the application was made out in the form for a license, not for a transfer; and taking the application to be for a new license it was a question whether they could grant a licence to one already holding a licence. After a little further discussion Mr. Douglas said the application should be taken as an original licence and the applicant could then petition the treasury for a remission of the licence fee. A licence was then granted on the understanding that Mr. Fiddyment closes the premises now occupied by him on his removal to the opposite premises.
Launceston Examiner, 8 February 1859

King’s Arms

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Charles Street
cnr Wellington & Elizabeth Streets
(John Ashton owned land on the NW corner, later the site of George Inn)

Formerly Black Bull, Charles & Brisbane Streets?
1830 Henry Hinksman, King’s Arms, Charles Street
1831 Elizabeth Hinksman, King’s Arms, Charles Street
1832 George Dodery, King’s Arms, Charles Street
1833 Benjamin Walford, King’s Arms, Launceston
1834 John Ashton, King’s Arms, Charles Street
1834 John Ashton, King’s Arms, Wellington & Elizabeth Streets
1835 Thomas Neal
1836 John Ashton, King’s Arms, Wellington & Elizabeth Streets
1836-38 Henry Chalk, King’s Arms, Wellington Street


Launceston Advertiser, 4 October 1830
Robert Marr had the Black Bull, cnr Brisbane and Charles Streets until 1829.


Burial of Henry Hinksman (RGD 34/1/1 Burials Launceston, 1831)

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Babes in the Wood

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(Elizabeth between Bathurst & Wellington?)
York & Wellington Streets

1837-38 George Williams, Babes in the Wood
1838 Thomas Garrard, Babes in the Wood, York & Wellington Streets

George Williams, of the Babes in the Wood, appeared to answer the complaint of District Constable Peel, for harbouring Christiana Johnson, a prisoner in the service of Mr. Lang. Constable Allsworth deposed, that on Sunday the 18th inst., about halfpast 11 at night, he was on duly with constable Warby, in Elizabeth-street, and hearing a noise in Mr. William’s house, they demanded and obtained admittance; they found the woman Johnson in a back room, where there were two or three men ; on asking her who she was, she at once admitted she was a prisoner, when they took her into custody ; did not hear Mr. Williams accuse her of having represented herself to him as a free woman ; Johnson did not say to deponent, “you know me Johnny. — I have done it.— You have no business with me.”

Constable Warby sworn— accompanied the last Witness on the occasion referred to ; remembers the woman said, addressing herself to him, — “You have no business with me, Johnny, you know I have done it.” The woman was now called in and examined, she corroborated the evidence of Allsworth, and denied using the words imputed to her by Warby, but, two free men named Jones and Welsh contradicted her statement on oath, and maintained that she did ; they represented themselves to be lodgers in the house of Mr. Williams, and recollected their landlady asking the woman when she first came to the house in company with a man, whether she was free, when she replied she was ; they remembered also the words of the woman. Williams offered to call further evidence, but the Bench decided that it was his duty to have insisted on seeing her certificate when the woman said she had done it, and sentenced him to pay a fine of £2 and costs.

It is perfectly clear that constable Allsworth perjured himself in this case, and the Magistrates will do well to be careful how they receive his evidence in future.— ED.
Cornwall Chronicle, 31 March 1838


Hobart Town Courier, 24 May 1839

This might be relevant:

An information against Thomas Garrard, publican, was withdrawn, being informal
Cornwall Chronicle, 25 May 1839

Dolphin Inn

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Wellington Street

1845 William Brigg, Dolphin, Wellington Street
Continued Paterson & Wellington Streets.


Launceston Advertiser, 9 May 1845

Cornwall Chronicle, 10 May 1845
Cornwall Chronicle

ROBBERIES. — On Sunday morning between the hours of one and three o’clock, the house of Mr. Brigg, ‘Dolphin’, Wellington-street, was robbed of a keg of brandy, by some thieves having gained an entrance to the bar of the shop by cutting a pane of glass and withdrawing the bolt of the window. The offenders have not been discovered.
Launceston Advertiser, 23 May 1845

Attempt at Robbery. — On Friday night, some villains made another attack on the premises of Mr. Brigg, at the “Dolphin,” in Wellington-street, being the second or third attempt within a few weeks. Having opened a shutter from the outside, they were obstructed by a Venetian blind, which being made fast to the window, effectually hindered their further progress without the chance of detection. The inmates being aroused by the noise, search was commenced, but the vagabonds made good their retreat.
Cornwall Chronicle, 1 October 1845

(At new location.)
William Brigg, Dolphin, Wellington and Patterson-streets. The Police Magistrate stated that there was a suspicion against this house of Sunday trading. The house was clean below, but tile bed-rooms were mostly unfurnished. Mr. Gunn stated that he should oppose any house that was kept merely as a taproom, as such a house could not be said to be kept for the accommodation of the public. Mr. Sams observed that applicant had only lately moved from a smaller house, and he did not think sufficient time had been given to him to get the house in proper order. The Police Magistrate thought it advisable to refuse the license now, at the same time granting permission to applicant to apply again at the next quarterly meeting. After some further discussion, the license was granted, upon an offer from Mr. Lilly to see it properly furnished.
Launceston Advertiser, 3 September 1846
(Longer version of above events in the Examiner )