Hotels in Launceston to 1900
1833 Colin McKinnon
Only one reference to this.
The Independent, 21 December 1833
(Note: Argyle Inn, Launceston appears in a advertisement for Solomon’s Longford coach in 1854 but this is supposed to be Angel Inn. It appears as such in the next advertisement.)
Wellington Street
1835-36 Robert Rider, Star and Garter, Wellington Street
1836 Samuel Hyland, Star and Garter, Wellington Street
1836-37 John Marsden, Star and Garter, Wellington Street
Launceston Advertiser, 13 August 1835
Launceston Advertiser, 21 September 1837
Charles Street
Previously in St John Street
1830 Patrick Carolan, Ship Inn, Charles St
1831-34 George Aylwin, Ship Inn, Charles St
This Charles Street site was previously licensed to Robert Heaney as the Waterloo Tavern.
The St John Street building became the Commercial Tavern, the Star & Garter and then Ship Inn again.
Launceston Advertiser, 14 June 1830
In 1831, the Ship Inn of Charles St is licensed to George Aylwin, and he reappears on the list the following year although the names of the premises aren’t given, and in 1833. In June 1834 he is charged with breaching the licensing act and advertising a candle manufactory. After this I can find no mention of Aylwin. (His wife and child seem to have gone to Sydney.)
Launceston Advertiser, 27 December 1832
George & York Street
1833 John Hill, Sydney Arms, York Street
Independent, 19 January 1833
Independent, 23 March 1833
Cameron Street?
Is this the Black Swan under another name? The only mention of “College Arms” is in the list of licensed publicans for the year 1830, under “New Licenses Granted”:
Over the next few months, Caryl is in trouble for habouring:
20 December 1830: charged with having harboured in his public house, at Launceston, for the purpose of tippling after 8 o’clock, two convicts — charge dismissed.
28 March 1831: charged with allowing a prisoner to remain in his house, whose pass had expired two days ; fined £2 and costs.
20 June 1831 : charged with harbouring two convicts illegally at large. Decision referred to the quarter sessions, it being the third offence.
Then in July, the licence for the Black Swan, Brisbane Street is transferred from Caryl to Neil Campbell:
Hobart Town Courier, 30 July 1831
1834-36 James Lucas, Robin Hood, Springs
The Independent, 6 September 1834
Launceston Advertiser, 2 July 1835
From “Launceston Police Intelligence”:
James Lucas, of the Springs, for allowing Charles Clayton and James Rivulet (both transported offenders) in his public house on the night of the 26th ultimo, was sentenced to pay a penalty of £5. Mr. Lucas said he would appeal at the next Quarter Sessions against the fine.
Cornwall Chronicle, 16 January 1836
Breadalbane
1837-9 James Segrave, Halfway House, Cocked Hat Hill
Cornwall Chronicle, 27 July 1839
Cornwall Chronicle, 16 November 1839
1831 Patrick Carolan, Springs
1832 Carolan, Patrick, Cocked Hat Hill
1833 Patrick Carolan, Tasmanian Inn, Cocked Hat Hill
1834-35 Patrick Carolan, Tasmanian Inn, Prospect Hill
1836-37 Patrick Carolan, Tasmanian Inn, Springs
Hobart Town Courier, 1 October 1831
The Independent, 8 December 1832
Breadalbane.
1884-5 George Horder
Nothing on this, other than some sale notices.
From “Annual Licensing Meeting”:
George Horder, Breadalbane Hotel, Beadalbane. There being one house at Breadalbane already licensed, the application was refused.
Daily Telegraph, 2 December 1884
Unlicensed (temperance) hotels are often established after an application for a licence has been rejected. This would seem to be the case here.
Launceston Examiner, 11 July 1884
Daily Telegraph, 21 April 1885
Launceston Examiner, 4 January 1886
Breadalbane, 1850s
Cannot find much about this, other than two short news items at the bottom of the page. Was it located in the building that had originally been the Albion Inn?
In 1849, “Timothy Sullivan applied for a license at the Cocked Hat, district of Morven. The premises for which applicant applied were lately occupied by Mr. Pilbeam, but Mr. Pilbeam finding the premises inconvenient, obtained permission from Mr. Wales, the assistant P. M., to remove to an adjoining house … The land originally belonged to Mr. Scott, who had not resided in the colony for many years, it was rented to Mr. Solomon, and by him sub-rented to Mr. Pilbeam, who had at a great expense erected the house to which he had lately removed. (Cornwall Chronicle, 9 May 1849)
Unlicensed hotels (temperance hotels, coffee houses etc) are often established in establishments that have been refused licenses. The two contemporary stories (below) have the coffee house as belonging to Mrs Pilbeam and Mr Scott, which supports it being the house referred to in the rejected application.
A 1949 story about the Woolpack Inn being redeveloped says:
The Woolpack Inn, earlier known as the Breadalbane Coffee House, was built in the late 30’s on land granted in 1838 to Thomas Scott, one of Van Diemen’s Land’s earliest settlers. He was a land surveyor from County Barwick, Scotland, and he apparently conceived Breadalbane as the site for a big township. He sub divided much of his 584 acres and named the area the Cocked Hat Hill Estate.
Advocate, 16 November 1949
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Cocked Hat — The draft of the bill for dividing the colony into electoral districts, and providing representatives for the same, leaves out entirely the small village at the Cocked Hat–so that the houses of Mrs. Pilbeam–the Breadalbane Coffee-house, and another, are beyond the pale of electoral privileges
Cornwall Chronicle, 30 April 1851
FIRE–About two o’clock this morning, the Breadalbane Temperance Coffee House, at the Cocked Hat was destroyed by fire the walls only being left standing. The property belongs to Mr. Thomas Scott: the Surveyor, now in England.
Colonial Times, 20 January 1853