Club Hotel
The Club Hotel was a hotel in Clunes, Victoria, <1870-2014>.
Background
History
The hotel opened in about 1870, according to the date on the front of the building.
On 31 July 1884 the Ballarat Star reported:
On Friday next Mr A. Nelson, of the Court house hotel, takes possession of the well known Club hotel, having obtained a lease from the proprietor. Mr Nelson's occupancy will be the second since its creation, some 18 years. Mr Robert Hunter succeeds Mr Nelson in the Courthouse hotel.[1]
Site
The hotel is in Fraser Street. This site is now number 34 Fraser Street. Location -37.29351, 143.78620
Sinclair described it in 1879 as:
"... Wiles' Club Hotel, a splendid two-storey building, which would do credit to Ballarat or Melbourne. From what I can remember this must be erected on the site of the wooden building with verandah on front, once occupied by Mr. Ethersay as a private school. Just on the other side of the street from this, I recollect in 1863 seeing a bullock team laden with potatoes, stuck fast in the black soil, and can remember stopping for a couple of hours watching the excited oxen conductor running up and down the team and indulging in dreadful fits of profanity, whipping the poor cattle in great style, trying them on the near lock and the off lock all to no receiving advice from the Cornish miners who had collected on the spot, and probably had never seen a bullock team stuck fast before. After receiving all sorts of advice from these clever novices, he had to at length set to work and to unload to the last tier of bags before he could extricate the waggon. I can hardly realise this as the same green grassy street or roadway where this happened, but I believe if the bullock driver is alive yet, and been absent from Clunes ever since, and arriving now, he could point out the precise spot where he had been anchored in the black glue pot.[2]
Innovations
Community Involvement
Works Produced
Workplace Relations
The People
- In August 1884, A. Nelson took over the hotel license.[1]
- In December 1886 the publican was W. B. Burn.[3]
- The publicans in 2014 are Rod and Yvonne Elliot.[4]
Legacies
The hotel is still in operation.
See also
Notes
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1884 'CLUNES.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 31 July, p. 4. , viewed 06 Jun 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201116609
- ↑ J. M. Sinclair, Clunes in 1863 and 1879, first published in 1881, edited by Mac Jenkins, http://members.westnet.com.au/talltrees/clunes/, accessed 28 February 2014
- ↑ 1886 'CRESWICK.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 22 December, p. 4. , viewed 31 May 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article210840183
- ↑ Club Hotel website, http://www.ballarat.com/clunes/clubhotel.htm, accessed 2 March 2014
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