Royal Hotel, Maryborough
A very early picture of the Royal Hotel [John Oxley Library neg. 9899]
A later image of the Hotel after extensive alterations, ca. 1880 [John Oxley Library neg. 404]
Advertisement in Maryborough Almanac, 1874
Advertisement in Maryborough Chronicle, 10 March 1866
The 'Royal Hotel' was originally named the 'Bush Inn' and was built for E.T. Aldridge on the corner of Kent and Bazaar Streets in about 1856. Aldridge later advertised it for sale in the Maryborough Chronicle in 1861:
"The largest hotel in Queensland, situated on the banks of the river Mary, known as the 'Bush Inn', now doing a good business ... It consists of forty one rooms exclusive of kitchen, which is 80ft x 80ft; also, stabling and outhouses, most complete."
Maryborough Chronicle, 31 October 1861
The name change to the 'Royal Hotel' is supposed to have occurred as a result of a visit from the Governor Sir George Ferguson Bowen in 1863, along with permission to display the Royal Coat of Arms.
A spacious balcony was added in the 1870's and a row of Bunya Pines was planted in front of the hotel by the then licensee Richard Hyne.
Click here to see the Post Office Tower where the panorama was taken from, probably in 1873/4, by E.H. Forster, an early Maryborough photographer.
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