PubTrail

Quench your thirst for history,

join in the time honoured tradition of the Aussie pub crawl and soak up

amazing pub architecture.

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HERVEY BAY

WESTSIDE TAVERN

WHITE LION

QUAINT COUNTRY PUBS

POST OFFICE

CITY MUD MAP

REGIONAL MAP

SHAMROCK

RIVERVIEW (TINANA)

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THE GRANVILLE

THE LAMINGTON

OLD SYDNEY

OXFORD

THE CENTRAL

THE CRITERION

CUSTOM HOUSE LOUNGE 1868

THE FEDERAL

THE AUSSIE

PUBS WITH A PAST

THE CARLTON

A FAMED CITY OF OLD PUBS

THE CARRIERS ARMS

This project is a marketing initiative of the Fraser Coast Regional Council and was made possible though funding provided by Queensland Events and the World’s Greatest Pub Fest.

Content and research: Nancy BatesHistorical research: Jan DownmanImages: Jan Rolston and Fiona DakinHistorical images: Maryborough Wide Bay Burnett Historical Society

Disclaimer: Maps are for general reference only and are not to scale. The information contained in this publication is a guide only. Fraser Coast Regional Council accepts no liability or responsibility for the accuracy of the information presented. Details subject to change from time of printing. Valid from May 2010.

© 2010 Fraser Coast Regional Council

Enjoy yourself. Drink responsibly.

HISTORIC PUBS TRAIL BROCHUREYour complete guide to uncovering the bottled history of Maryborough and the Fraser Coast’s impressive collection of hotels.

Visit the pub where guests once showered in beer. Meet some unwelcome spirits said to haunt a number of our heritage-listed hotels. Experience the charms of old fashioned country hotels.

Take a shot of Maryborough’s fascinating past filled with opium dens, smugglers, new settlers and spirits who still linger. Add in one of the best architectural collections of colonial-era pubs in Australia and enjoy an intoxicating mix.

Laughter and astonished exclamations have echoed from the walls of Maryborough’s pubs for more than 160 years.

Into the shanty bars, pioneer inns and early grand hotels of the second half of the 1800s came cursing bullockies, staggering sailors, stalking gentry, uncertain immigrants and miners lusting for Gympie Gold.

In the 1900s hotels slaked the thirst of hardy workers in a proud industrial city. They served waves of Australian and American army, navy and air force personnel based in Maryborough in World War II. Through the century the pubs were in turn swept by floodwaters or rocked by night-life.

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A FAMED CITY OF OLD PUBS

QUEENSCorner of Kent and Adelaide streets.After the original hotel was lost in the 1876 fire, this building went up in 1883. It closed as a hotel mid 1990s.

FRANCISCorner of Kent and Richmond streets.The hotel is the site of the first hotel built in the new township in 1853. The lower storey was built in 1878 and named the Metropolitan. A second storey was added after the First World War and was re-named the Francis in the 1930s.

ROYALCorner of Kent and Bazaar streets.Completed in 1902, for many years this was the leading hostelry in Maryborough with its grand foyer and staircase. It replaced an earlier two storey wooden hotel first called the Bush Inn built in 1858, and renamed the Royal in 1863.

ENGINEERS ARMSCorner of March and Bowen streets.Reminiscent of early pubs in Sydney, this former hotel was built in 1889 to suit the wedge shaped block replacing an earlier wooden hotel c.1865. It is rumoured to be haunted by members of the tragic Dillane family. Husband Thomas died seven years after taking over the hotel in 1870, followed by his daughter, 11 years, and son aged 17. Wife Anne continued as publican until she too died in the city’s worst flood of 1893. Remaining son Michael died the following year.

EUROPEAN239–245 Adelaide Street.Built in 1884, it replaced an earlier hotel of the same name which had its own brewery at the rear. It closed in 1950 and was converted into shops.

GREAT WESTERN/CIVICRamsay Place, Lennox Street.Built 1887 across from the railway station the hotel was named to acknowledge the work of opening up the Western Railway Line. Its name was changed to Civic in 1959 and it closed in 1991.

PUBS WITH A PAST

A walk around Maryborough’s CBD reveals many former hotels now operating as shops, restaurants and other businesses. Their days as hotels are long gone, but their history and architectural charm lives on…

Francis Hotel, c1950s

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The hotel at the corner of Alice and Adelaide Streets had a shaky start when it was built in 1875 as the Young Australian. The first owner declared himself insolvent when he could not pay the builders. The hotel was rebuilt as a two-storied brick structure after a fire in 1889 and reopened as the Australian, a name that stayed for about 100 years. It was more recently known as the Red Roo and now the Aussie. Among Maryborough’s early hotels that have disappeared were the Crown and Anchor, Elephant and Castle, Duke of Edinburgh, Rainbow, Golden Lamb, Rising Sun, Southern Cross and the White Swan.

Aussie Hotel Motel100 Adelaide St; 07 4121 3586

THE AUSSIE

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Bistro pub meals and snacks

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Five years after the dawn of 21st Century, Maryborough’s pubs shot to world-wide fame. Every June for the last five years the pubs have hosted thousands of costumed customers streaming through to claim and reclaim the world pub crawl record for the city.

Maryborough claimed the first world record for the most people on a pub crawl in 2005 and was duly registered in the Guinness Book of Records. The title has been briefly snatched by London (2006) and New York (in 2009) but a parade of smurfs, super heroes, pirates, dancing girls, knights, and characters from Wizard of Oz or the Rocky Horror Picture Show have returned the title to Maryborough each Queen’s Birthday Weekend.

The World’s Greatest Pub Fest is one day in June but you can use the Pubs Trail brochure to follow the path of this record breaking event at your leisure all year round.

For a list of participating hotels each year, call 1800 214 789 or go to

Indicates whether this hotel usually participates in the PubFest(subject to change each year).

www.worldsgreatestpubfest.com.au

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THE CARLTON

The single-storey Ballarat Hotel appeared in 1868, jutting out into Bazaar Street where it narrowed at the corner of Ellena Street – a quirky anomaly known then as Cows’ Lane. When the street was widened it was moved back and a second storey built. The Ballarat was demolished and the two-storied solid masonry Carlton built in 1939 in the classic hotel style of its time, with tiled exterior walls and internal features characteristic of the pre-war period. Fire was a constant threat in the timber hotels of the 19th Century; dozens of publicans became forlorn mine hosts of charred timber and ashes. Many were rebuilt, some more than once, after burning down.

Carlton Hotel70 Ellena St; 07 4121 2406

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Bullock wagons trundling the western route to the early settlement of Gayndah made the Carriers Arms a favourite watering hole for both man and beast, with stock watered at the nearby Ululah Lagoon. The pioneer style hotel with verandahs was demolished in 1954 and its excellent timber recycled. The present two-storey building was completed the following year, with accommodation upstairs. A motel was built in extensive renovations and expansion in 1980 but that did not deter the ghost of one of the former residents. Staff swear “Cliffy” is responsible for lights turning on and off and other odd happenings.

Carriers Arms Hotel Motel405 Alice Street; 07 4122 6666

THE CARRIERS ARMS

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THE CENTRAL

THE CRITERION

A publican in the bustling 1860s came home one afternoon and found his wife lying behind the bar of the hotel that was first known as the Carpenters Arms. Accustomed to seeing her in that state, he took little notice and went out again. When he returned he took a closer look, found she was dead and mourned her briefly, if at all. He remarried two weeks later. The Carpenters Arms was opened in 1863, later named the Shakespeare and then the Royal Exchange. It catered for patrons of the Theatre Royal next door, was rebuilt in 1885 and became the Central in 1916.

Central Hotel173 Adelaide St; 07 4121 3105

Haunted and heritage listed, the hotel began in 1864 when a single storey wooden boarding house was granted a licence. Called the Melbourne Hotel, it commanded ‘a magnificent view of the shipping of the port’, with the décor ‘quite the smack of Victoria’. A special sitting of the licensing court in 1872 overcame reservations about granting the licence to a single woman, Sarah Gregory who married one of her regulars, Scotsman Neil Blue. It was rebuilt as a two-storey brick hotel after burning down in 1878, with the third storey added five years later. Neil died at the hotel in 1893 aged 48. Ghostly footsteps pacing third storey floorboards late at night are said to be his. In 1915 the name changed to Riverview and in 1941 to Criterion.

Criterion Hotel98 Wharf St; 07 4121 3043

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THE FEDERAL

The two-storey brick building built opposite the Custom House in 1868 is the oldest surviving original hotel building in Maryborough. It escaped fire and remodelling that changed the features of many of the city’s other 19th Century hotels. Two extra bays extending further along Wharf Street were added in 1883 and original wooden verandah railings were replaced with iron lace in 1901. Many say the heritage-listed building is haunted. It was closed as a hotel in 2004 and now operates as a bar and restaurant.

Lounge 1868116 Wharf St; 07 4123 0600

Tourists appear daily to photograph the quaint Federal Hotel. Built to last in 1884, it was first called the Café Royal Hotel. Soon after it opened, the publican laid on free beer to celebrate the fact that troops were being sent to Sudan to help General Gordon at Khartoum – the first time Australian troops were posted overseas. Enough quality timber to build three hotels was found when the roof was lifted for renovations to the upstairs piano bar in the early 21st Century. The Federal enjoyed some notoriety in the 1950s when a dead man was discovered on the premises. When police were called a cache of 80,000 pounds in cash was found under the body. The money was never claimed nor the mystery solved.

Federal Hotel270 Kent St; 07 4122 4711

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THE GRANVILLE

THE LAMINGTON

When the great flood of 1893 swept through Maryborough, the Granville Arms and Fig Tree Hotel building were swept away but the resourceful Granville Arms publican kept his bar open. Fortunately the town’s Steindl brewery was in Granville so was able to supply the hastily erected temporary bar as residents waited for the Mary to subside enough for the ferry to run again. The licence was transferred to a new hotel built on higher land at the present site. It burned down in 1904, was rebuilt and then rebuilt again in 1966. The hotel becomes a lively social centre when floods cut access across the Granville Bridge and the suburb is isolated for a couple of days.

Granville Hotel Motel23 Odessa St; 07 4121 3815

Cocky the Cockatoo is the resident character at the Lamington Hotel. A hotel built in 1864 on the site on the northern side of the Mary River was named the Ariadne after the ship that brought the first immigrants to Maryborough direct from England in 1862. It burnt down in 1928, was rebuilt and renamed to honour Governor Lord Lamington and link it to the new bridge built across the Mary River three years after the 1893 flood washed away the original Maryborough Bridge. Locals often pull in for a yarn with cheeky Cocky, who now has the grill restaurant named after him. The entertaining bird has been in his big cage at the Lammy for 25 years and is reputed to swear only at night.

Lamington Hotel Motel33 Ferry Street; 07 4121 3295

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OLD SYDNEY

OXFORD

The first Sydney Hotel was built in 1865 and by 1874 was effusively advertising its wow factor. In charge of cuisine was Ah Pie, ‘from the kitchen of his Celestial Majesty at Pekin’, so it was superfluous to ‘dilate upon the fact’, oozed publican George Sutton. But he did, also extolling the Latinised Doric architecture, beds of neither effeminate softness nor ostentatious hardness and, touching on the ‘delicate subject of earth closets’, he claimed his ‘cabinets aquatiques’ were superior to all other hotels. A second storey was added in 1883 but it was ruled not up to scratch by authorities in 1917 and was rebuilt in 1919.

Old Sydney Hotel34 Ellena St; 07 4122 1744

The ghost of a woman is said to wander through this two-storey hotel, built in 1884. Despite extensive remodelling in the 1930s, it retains many characteristics of a 19th Century city pub with some original handmade bricks still visible upstairs and downstairs. Until as late as the 1970s the hotel had a cellar kept fully stocked with rum and wine. It has since been sealed over. In the 1880s when the brick Oxford was built the standard of hotels improved in the bustling township. After several of the earlier timber hotels in Maryborough were burnt down, tougher licensing laws condemned others mainly because of the fire risk. The city had only a bucket brigade until the first fire brigade building opened in 1887.

Oxford Hotel96 Richmond St; 07 4122 3366

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The Post Office Hotel was built in 1870 and by 1888 the hotel was in an ‘unhealthy state’ and was refused a licence renewal until a new building was erected. In 1889, ‘free running of the taps’ celebrated the opening of the new Post Office Hotel, described in the press as an ornament to the town. The two shops on Bazaar Street were part of the original plan. Some internal features are retained within the hotel, including leadlight glazing, french doors and the dining room fireplace. The elegant balcony with iron railings and verandah with cast iron columns were removed in the 1930s when the Council decided to modernise the appearance of the town.

Post Office HotelWharf St; 07 4121 3289

Between 500 and 600 people gathered at the Shamrock Hotel in 1900 to see the goat races, a popular form of entertainment in Queensland in that era. The Chronicle reported that Gallagher’s Billy won the double after a vastly entertaining afternoon highlighted by several goat carts veering off course or tumbling over and dumping their drivers in the gutter. The Shamrock was built in 1877 in what was known as Irishtown and has retained its original name. It was burnt down in 1910 and replaced with a two-storey wooden building. It continued trading through extensive remodelling in 1952, when a brick exterior wall was put up so it could be rebuilt from the inside out.

Shamrock Hotel170 Ferry St; 07 4121 3217


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The fi rst hotel built here in 1868, at the southern end of the ferry crossing from the city, was called the Erin-go-Bragh. It was replaced by a two-storey hotel 10 years later and named the Diggers Arms. It was rebuilt after burning down in 1941. In 1958 the name was changed to the Tinana Hotel. In 1963 it burned down for the second time and a fourth building appeared. In recent years its name was changed to Riverview, formerly the name of the lounge overlooking the Mary River. The hotel had merry times when fl oods submerged the Lamington Bridge, stranding residents and north-bound Bruce Highway travellers for days. A fl ood-free bridge built upstream in 1990 brought the fl ood pub heydays to an end.

Riverview Hotel MotelGympie Road, Tinana; 07 4121 5082

The fi rst Tattersalls Hotel opened in Richmond Street in 1870 with a large livery stable associated with it. By the 1880s the bench was “not desirous” of issuing another licence, mainly because of the fi re risk posed by the Tattersalls and other timber hotels in the town. The smart new Tattersalls Hotel, two storied and in red brick, built on the adjoining block remains there today. Ninety years later a large entertainment area built at the back of the Tatts became the night haunt of courting baby boomers, attracting national entertainers. The nightclub area has recently been restored.

Tattersalls Hotel117 Richmond St; 07 4123 0290

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WHITE LION

The newest pub in town was built at Tinana in 2002 in an airy style with timbered verandahs. The first hotels south of the Mary River crossing sprung up when the Gympie gold rush started in 1867, catering for fortune-seekers trudging or riding south from Maryborough. Among the early hotels were the Cornstalk, the first Tinana at Teddington Road, the Blue Bell, the Five Mile, Black Horse and Owanyilla. The current Riverview is the only pub remaining in Tinana from the 19th Century. Most of the others closed or were moved when the railway line was built to bring Gympie gold to Maryborough and train travel was preferred to the long road journey.

Westside Tavern and Motel195-207 Gympie Road 07 4121 0663

Guests once showered in beer in this famous hotel. Originally built in 1864, by 1875 it was advertising additional accommodation at its stables, with separate forage rooms and loose boxes for the special convenience of racehorses. It was rebuilt in two stages in 1885 and 1887 and had a moment in history several decades ago when a plumber mixed up the water pipes with the lines to the keg. In the old accommodation rooms upstairs guests were startled to find themselves showering in beer. The hotel was remodelled in the 1950s using the same method as that used for the Shamrock – a brick exterior put up first and the hotel rebuilt from inside to out.

White Lion Hotel and Bottle Shop37 Walker St; 07 4121 3374

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QUAINT COUNTRY PUBS

Dozens of hotels have come and gone in the historic district around Maryborough. Some were little more than rough bars, thrown up to service thirsty men, horses and bullocks on the dusty roads to goldfi elds and pioneer settlements. Some more substantial pubs survived and thrived, often rebuilt, now treasured for their rustic charm and character.Worth a country drive and visit.

Hideaway Hotel, Tiaro

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Grand Hotel

Miners Arms

Theebine Hotel

Station Hotel(Hideaway)

Royal Hotel

Bay Central Tavern

Beach House Hotel

The Fiddler

Hervey Bay Hotel

Hoolihans

Torquay Hotel

Prince Alfred (Gundy)

Country Pubs location guide

NB: Map is for general reference only and is not to scale.

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Discovery of gold at Gympie in 1867 spawned many bars between Maryborough’s port and Gympie’s mines. The two day trip to transport the gold was broken by an overnight stop in Tiaro where the valuable cargo was secured in the police station. Nine hotels flourished in the little town of Tiaro alone between 1868 and 1896. The Royal Hotel was one of the last in that period, built in 1896. It was rebuilt on its current site in 1932.

Royal HotelMayne Street, Tiaro07 4129 2567

ROYAL HOTEL, TIARO


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Trading as a hotel since 1881, the Hideaway, officially still the Station Hotel, is tucked away on the south side of the railway line. A fine example of a single storey hotel of that period, it has wide verandahs, original doors and detached kitchen. Once the haunt of gold miners and timber workers, it is now popular with tourists and friendly locals.

Station HotelWalter Street, Tiaro07 4129 2153

THE STATION (HIDEAWAY) HOTEL, TIARO


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PRINCE ALFRED (GUNDY), GUNDIAH

King Alfred might have burnt the cakes but no one is quite sure who burnt the Prince Alfred Hotel at Gundiah – twice. The original hotel built on Gootchie Creek in 1868 was torched, as was the second built beside the railway line in 1896. The publican traded out of a tin shed for a while before the licensing authorities told him to shape up. The current Prince Alfred was built in 1947. The former coach stop retains its quirky character, with locals occasionally riding their horses through the bar.

Prince Alfred HotelMain Street, Gundiah 07 4129 3182

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Horses were ridden and occasionally cattle were driven through the Grand Hotel in Howard in its rollicking past – and a brown mare still makes an occasional appearance when “Cowboy” takes to the notion of riding through the bar. The pub was built in 1888 and is a popular tourist stop just off the Bruce Highway. The walls tell some of the tales of its robust heritage, when it was one of the watering holes for Burrum miners.

Grand Hotel79 William St, Howard07 4129 4906

The Miners Arms was built by an enterprising miner in the Burrum coal mines after a squabble in the 1880s. The owner of the town’s only hotel, the Cosmopolitan, objected because the coal workers opened up a Miners Club which was selling more beer than him. The Miners Arms Hotel was built in 1889 to settle the quarrel and probably garner much of the thirsty miner trade. The Cosmopolitan burnt down in 1904. The Miners Arms retains much of its original characteristics.

Miners Arms Hotel24 Robertson St, Torbanlea 07 4129 4707

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GRAND HOTEL, HOWARD MINERS ARMS, TORBANLEA

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Set in the foothills of the Gunalda ranges, the Theebine hotel is a classic 1910 Queenslander pub. Beautiful architecture, airy outdoor settings, live music and a lovely atmosphere make this the perfect country pub. Originally called the Junction hotel it was built to service the train junction opposite, opening up the South Burnett.

Theebine HotelRailway Parade, Theebine 07 5484 6182

THEEBINE HOTEL



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HERVEY BAY

Although Hervey Bay’s first hotel opened in 1875 and some of the existing hotels can trace their roots back to the late 1800s, little remains of the original buildings.

Hervey Bay has evolved to offer a different type of pub experience, the Aussie open pub beside the sea with outdoor lounges and some modern bars.

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Bay Central Tavern The Bay Central Tavern is a modern pub with a distinctive Aussie feel and a giant outdoor television screen.

115 Boat Harbour Drive, Pialba 07 4124 4111

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Beach House HotelOpened in 1900 as the Scarborough, it was rebuilt in 1902 after a fire, rebuilt again in 1935 and again in 1968. It was named Marty’s on the Beach and then the Beach House.

344 Esplanade, Scarness 07 4128 1233

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Torquay Hotel Originally known as the Ballinasloe, the hotel was one of two opened in Torquay in 1890. In 1921 it was first damaged in a cyclone and then burnt down later in the year. The next hotel lasted until 1959 and the current pub was built the next year.

421 Esplanade, Torquay 07 4125 2266

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Hervey Bay HotelOriginally built in 1881 as the Point Vernon, it was moved to a new site in 1908 and renamed the Vernon. New buildings in the complex date from the 1980s.

Watson St, Pialba 07 4128 1044

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The Fiddler Modern bar with wine and cocktail bar.

126 Boat Harbour Drive, Pialba 07 4124 8300

HoolihansIrish pub and restaurant opened on St Patrick’s Day, 2001.

382 Esplanade, Torquay 07 4194 0099

Restaurantmenu

Disabled access


Torquay Hotel, c1920s

Scarborough Hotel, Scarness, c1935

Urangan Hotel, c1920

Queens Hotel, Maryborough, c1890

Saltwater Creek Hotel, c1913

Elephant and Castle Hotel, Maryborough, c1868

Sydney Hotel, Maryborough, c1874

Royal Hotel, Maryborough, c1879

Globe Hotel, Maryborough, c1925

Tinana Hotel, c1883

Enjoy yourself. Drink responsibly.

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