The name Victoria has been applied to several hotels in Bathurst. The first in William Street (1844), was followed by a premises in George Street (1855), and at the corner of Russell and Bentinck Streets (1858).
The building in the photograph, the fourth to carry the name, was built for HenryThe first licensee was Andrew Whiteford in 1876.
Butler in 1875. The railway was due to reach Bathurst in 1876
and Butler was speculating on a sudden increase in Keppel
Street traffic.
Henry Inch bought the hotel in 1879 and made additions so
extensive that they contributed to his insolvency ten years later.
By that time the building had forty bedrooms, five sitting rooms,
and an assembly hall that was sometimes described as a
theatre. This hotel has had over fifty licensees.
I shot this later in the day, fading light helps the novice photographer. Council chambers or then war-memorial, the adjoining intersection has pave memorabilia: fast cars, with those drivers, started to finish podium place winners. In the mirrored architecture, there belongs the building i remember as a ‘Saving Bank’, today there’s ground level shopping, to the accommodations stairwell built late eighth century or early nineteenth. Our chamber building was constructed by nineteen-eighty-seven.
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Occupied lands. (the Wiradjuri peoples.) copyright claim to photograph. Bathurst history’s.
