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Hotels elsewhere (other than in Fremantle)
See: hotels in Claremont, Cottesloe, Guildford, Maylands, Mosman Park, Nedlands, Subiaco. I haven't tried to list all of the hotels in Perth city. Tuckfield (qv infra) names many of them.
Balcatta Hotel, Wanneroo Road.
The Bush Inn, licensed April 1830, was the first wayside inn in the colony (and the eighth licensed premises). Established by John Butler as Prospect Place but also known as the Halfway House, it was known by this popular name because of its position 'halfway' between Perth and Fremantle. It was not close to the site of the present Albion Hotel (in Cottesloe) but on the river side of what is now View Street (Peppermint Grove) that was then the Perth-Fremantle track.
Coogee Hotel, Cockburn Road, Coogee.
Cremorne Hotel, 111 Murray Street Perth.
Devonshire Arms was on the corner of Barrack and Hay Streets (diagonally opposite the Town Hall corner, where Sharp's Tobacconist was) from c. 1837, and may have been known as the Mason's Arms (from John Mason) before that (see Tuckfield). Charles Tondut may have been an early licensee. It was on Lot F20, granted in 1829 to J. Mason and J. Duffield. Data from Dodgy Perth (note the name of the source).
Happy Immigrant, location in Perth unknown
Horse and Groom, Goderich Street (Murray Street) Perth, 1851.
Jandakot Hotel (former), now at 34 Prout Way Bibra Lake, is a Buddhist centre.
Leopold Hotel, Canning Highway, Bicton, now also a First Choice liquor store.
Lockridge aka Lockeridge Hotel, Bassendean. Not a licensed hotel.
The Majestic was a Federation style hotel on Point Dundas, Applecross, built in 1903 as the Hotel Melville for G.C.D. Forster and designed by architects M.F. and J.C. Cavanagh, and renamed the Majestic Hotel in 1924.
Palace Hotel, St George's Terrace and William Street, Perth.
Raffles Hotel, Applecross, 1937, by William G. Bennett.
Royal Hotel Perth, Wellington Street, opposite the William Street Horseshoe Bridge.
Shamrock, Northam, was established 1866 by George Throssell as the Farmers Home in Fitzgerald Street. George Christmass bought in 1869 what was (and is) later known as the Shamrock Hotel.
The United Services Hotel was on lot L3, on the south side of St George's Terrace, three lots from the corner of Barrack Street, and therefore diagonally just across from the Barracks itself and the power centre of the inchoate town. It was owned and run by the first woman to possess a town lot, Mary Hodges, although her husband George ostensibly ran the business. In 1841 the licensee was Henry Cole.
References and Links
Cooper, W.S. [William] & G. [Gil] McDonald 1989, A City for All Seasons: The Story of Melville, City of Melville.
Graham, Allen 2018, pubs of wa, Facebook page.
Graham, Allen 2023, Inns and Outs of Fremantle: a Social History of Fremantle and its Hotels 1829-1856, XLibris.
Tuckfield, Trevor 1971, 'Early colonial taverns and inns' (Part 1), Early Days, vol. 7, part 3: 65-82; 1975 (Part 2), Early Days, vol. 7, part 7: 98-106.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 9 February, 2024 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/elsewhere.html (it was last updated on 9 February, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.