Waverley – Mulgrave – Monash City Hotels
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(Much of this information was drawn from Cattlemen to Commuters, Coles Hotel Collection and local Newspapers)
| NAME | LOCATION | MELWAY | NOTES (Owner / Licensee) |
| Notting Hill Hotel | SE corner of Ferntree Gully & Gardiner Rds. | 70E8 | Opened as a licensed Grocery Store (and Bakery) by T G Wilkinson who also operated a coaching run along FTG Rd. It became the Halfway House Hotel in 1870. In Sep 1891 the present rendered brick building of 19 rooms was completed. 1884 T. Wilkinson 1887 J. Whitty Licensee 1888-89 J. Murphy 1890-94 P.H. Mundell 1900 H. Hart 1903 Mrs H. Henley 1904-06 Mrs Ruth Henley 1907-13 Robert Lang 1914 Reg B. Dyer 1915 W.B. Sleith 1917 Mary Scott 1918 Annette Crombie 1919 Thomas Young 1921 Thomas Lindsay 1925 Percival Morris 1926 Gertrude Everett 1927 Nathaniel Gordon 1930s Kath Byer 2013 Tony Jackson |
| Wellington Inn /Hotel Mountain View Hotel (No.1) Note there were 2 hotels named Mountain View during the period 1877-84. See below |
NE corner of Jells & Wellington Rds. | 80H1 | Opened in 1868 with Henry Snelling as Licensee 1869 Henry Snelling 1870 Mountain View (name change) 1871-76 Rowland Freeman 1877 Francis Bolch 1877-80 Margaret Kelly 1881-84 John Kennedy 1885 delicensed |
| Mountain View Hotel (2) | NE corner of High Street & Springvale Rds. | 62D12 | Opened 1874 with J.B. Allen as Licensee 1877 John O’Brien 1878-80 John O’Brien 1882-88 Thomas Moylan 1893-95 Heweth (then 1898-1899) 1895 Thomas Moylan 1903-06 P Linstedt 1907-1914 William Nelson |
| Mulgrave Post Office Hotel Post Office Hotel Wheelers Hill then Wheelers Hill Hotel |
NE corner Wellington & Lum Rds. | 80H1 | 1869 Storekeeper George Stott, postmaster of Mulgrave Post Office 1875 Mulgrave Post Office hotel established, widow Anne Stott licensee 1875-77 Mrs Ann Stott. 1877-81 Rowland Freeman 1882 Thomas Wilkinson 1883 George Bassett 1884 George Sands 1885-1890 Mrs Day (On 1 April 1888 the PMG officially changed the PO name from Mulgrave to Wheelers Hill, hence the name change from Mulgrave Post Office Hotel to Post Office Hotel, Wheelers Hill 1891-92 Jessie Gessner 1903-11 Frederick Gessner 1912-13 Frederick Peebles 1919 Isobel Geary 1920 Mary Geary 1921 E. Quosdorf 1922 P. Butler 1923 Annie Henderson >(From 1923 Officially known as Wheelers Hill Hotel) 1924 S. Jackwigle 1926 A.J. Knight 1927 Alma Rowe |
| Springvale Hotel | NW corner of Princes Hwy & Springvale Rds. | 80A4 | Opened 2.10.1857 with Matthew Bergin Licensee 1867-78 Catherine Bergin 1879 S.W. Bennett 1880 Charles Atkinson 1881 G.H. Benson 1882 Patrick Maloney 1883-88 John Brettargh 1895 George Barclay |
| Monash Hotel | Princes Hwy Clayton. | 79H1 | Opened December 1961 |
| Matthew Flinders Hotel | SE corner of Warrigal & Batesford Rds. | 69G1 | Opened Mar 1968 (Labour Day Weekend) |
| Cheshire Cheese Hotel (Original licence application referred to the View Mount Hotel) |
NW corner of Ferntree Gully & Lum Rds | 28.1.1867 Robert Wolstenholme applies for a licence for his home to be known as the View Mount Hotel. Opened 25.11.1868 with Robert Wolstenholme Licensee on 160 acres 1873 Joseph Gibson Licensee 1877-84 John Guest Delicensed in 1885. 1888-1895 John Brown In 1893/4 it was renamed the George Cotter Temperance* Hotel. |
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| Family / Harmony/ Australian Hotel | High Street Rd (Near Gardiners Creek) |
60H10 | Opened in 1856 and operated through to 1865 as a family hotel by Henry Mitchell. 1864 Henrietta Mitchell Licensee Taken over by John Clousen and son in law in 1865 and renamed the Harmony and then the Australian Hotel. 1875 Caroline King (widow of John Clousen) Licensee. |
| United States Hotel Waverley Arms Hotel |
On the S side of Waverley Rd about 300m west of what is now Huntingdale Rd | 69K3 | Licensed on 12 June 1868 by John Southon. >The Hotel, fruit garden and vineyard on 10 acres went up for an unreserved Mortgagee’s auction on 15.8.1871. 1873 Michael Hoban became licensee and changed the name to the Waverley Arms Hotel. In about 1877 it became Croft’s Temperance* Hotel. 1877 Francis Bolch receives new licence (for the Waverley Arms). 1878-1882 Francis Bolch Licensee 1884 P. Bolch 1885 delicensed The building was demolished in 1917. |
| Tally Ho Hotel | SW corner of Highbury & Blackburn Rds. (Now occupied by Hungry Jacks) |
61K9 | 1859 Henry Keele operated a bakery and store 1865 Bakery closed. John S Veale granted a licence for a Beer Shop 1868 William Green sold property to Frederick Jones 1871 Frederick Jones for premises next to his store and Post Office. 1877 John Jones 1884 J Jones Delicensed* after 1885 although the store and PO remained. 1888 Hotel completely destroyed by fire 1888-89 New hotel, store and dwelling built in brick 1890 Re-licensed to Alexander Hunter 1910 Ellen Hunter 1911 Pierre Guillerine 1912 James Watson ? 1913 Agnes Jane Bateman 1915 James Watson 1918 Ellen Kennedy ? 1919 Margarette Esther Clark 1921 Redecorated with new signage as “Gills Tally Ho Hotel” 19?? Delicensed 1939 Margerette Esther Clark sold the 13 acre property to William C Wise |
| Pig & Whistle | NE corner of Warrigal & High Street Rds | 60G10 | Opened ? Renamed Whites Hotel?Demolished and rebuilt as a hardware store. Extended and now a Priceline store. |
| Hotel Ibis | SW corner Kingsway & Springvale Rd | 71C3 | Opened 2008 |
| Coates Post Office Hotel | NW Corner of Garden and Dandenong Rds |
79J2 |
1864 Post Offiice opened by James Coates 1868 James Coates 1877 Joseph Ford 1884 John Sands 1891 Mary Brook 1897 Anne Jane Marriot 1902 O’Shannassy Bros 1906 E C Cox 1908 D MCGrath |
| Foresters Arms | NW corner Princes Hwy & Drummond St | 69G6 | Licensed 1.7.1864, William Braithwaite Licensee 1877 Adam Braithwaite 1879 Joseph Edwards 1881 Mrs Frances S Edwards 1883-87 Robert Trail 1888-89 W.H. Gregory 1890-91 Mrs Frances S Edwards 1895 J. Edwards |
| Oakleigh Hotel | NW corner Princes Hwy & Atkinson St | 69G6 | Built pre 1854? 1855 Joseph Gibson Licensee 1864 Joseph Gibson |
| Novatel | Nth of Monash Civic Centre on Springvale Rd | 71C3 | Opened 1984 John Sands ? |
| Village Green Hotel | SW corner of Springvale & Ferntree Gully Rds. | 71B9 | Opened 9.6.1965 |
| Mulgrave Arms Hotel | South side of Princes Hwy (Oakleigh Motel now occupies the site) | 70B10 | 1854?, Thomas Irwin Licensee 1864 Thomas Irwin 1877 J. S Irwin> Used as the office of the Oakleigh Shire Roads Board and the venue for Shire Council meetings for many years. Irwin operated a quarry just east of the site – now the playing field. 1885 S Irwin ?? J H Smythe Sept 1901 William Noval 10.12.1910 Daniel McKenna 10.12.1914 Mary J Bonham 15.12.1919 Ernest Albert Glass > |
| Junction Hotel | Portman & Little Hanover Sts | 69F8 | Opened May 1889, Geo Fredk Haines Licensee 1889 Licence transferred to Mrs Jack Munday 1902 John Leith 1938 ? Leith (son) |
| Bartlett’s Hotel | Fronting Allen St, Oakleigh | 69F5 | 1854 – 1858 1854 James Moreland Licensee 1858 Hotel Auctioned |
*Note that the Hotel Licensing Act of 1885 required that hotel licences be issued in proportion to the needs of the population.
It should be understood that there were two kinds of hotels – Licensed Hotels that sold alcohol, and Temperance Hotels that did not – they provided accommodation and meals, stabling, groceries, etc. Even though the words “Temperance Hotel” were clearly emblazoned on several such buildings, this was not really their name. Patrons would have referred to them either by the name of the licensee (eg Cotter’s Temperance Hotel) or by their location, if not a specific name like Cheshire Cheese. Licensing of premises took into account the number of other nearby premises selling alcohol.