Answers to Quiz 2: Hotels

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1. Why is the National Hotel so called?

The National Bank was on this town lot c. 1880-1886. The same building became a hotel in 1886, then owned by J.J. Higham - later by the Hagans. The basis of the current building was built in 1902.

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2. Which is the oldest hotel in Fremantle still trading in the same building?

I thought it was the Federal Hotel but Allen Graham reveals that it was not opened until 1 July 1887, while the Oddfellows Hotel was opened 1 April 1887. The oldest premises still trading and on the site of an earlier hotel might be the Orient Hotel, 1903, which was preceded by a number of other pubs, including the Commercial, and, most notably, the Emerald Isle.

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3. Which hotel is on the site of the premises which accommodated the first transported convicts when they arrived unexpectedly in 1850?

The Esplanade Hotel, which extends on Marine Parade from Collie to Essex Streets - where Daniel Scott's warehouse stood, in which the convicts were housed until they built the prison.

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4. Which hotel was the Kiwi (drinking) headquarters for the Americas Cup defence in 1987, with Steinlager on tap?

The Fremantle Hotel. Personal recollection.

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5. In which hotel was the escape of some Fenian prisoners planned?

This was the event associated with the Catalpa. The correct answer is the Emerald Isle - tho of course 'the Orient' is also acceptable, as that's what it was subsequently called.

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6. The easy questions about the Hougoumont Hotel are: what two events does the name recall? First the earlier one?

The first one is to do with Battle of Waterloo, where a farmhouse by that name was the site of a significant incident. See the page.

7. And then the later one?

The other refers to the last ship to bring transported convicts to Western Australia—in 1867.

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8. The slightly harder question about the Hougoumont Hotel - tho it might be the other way around for Fremantle people - is: what purpose did the older part of the building serve?

It was previously the (second) Fremantle Club. It was a common man's sort of place, unlike the first Fremantle Club, a merchants' club in Henry Street, which closed before 1914 because Perth had become the mercantile centre of the state.

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9. What is the hotel towards the end of the South Fremantle tramline (in the Mandurah Road, now South Terrace), and how did it get its strange name (now changed - one hopes temporarily)?

The Davilak Hotel was named after a lake on the property of Charles Manning, in what is now Manning Park. It was previously Davey's property and so Davey's Lake - which was contracted to Davilak.

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10. Which two hotels were originally named after lodges (friendly societies) and when were they both changed?

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The Freemasons (Sail and Anchor) and the Oddfellows (Norfolk) both had their names changed at the time of the America's Cup defence, in 1987. Also changed was the name of the Newcastle Club Hotel - to Newport (presumably after the town on Rhode Island, and perhaps also because the Cup was in a 'new port'—temporarily).

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