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'The Traveller's
Home Inn premises were owned by
J.A. Atkinson
The
License for the Traveller's Rest was held by
Ralph
George Martin
in 1837. By 1839 he had moved to the
Aberdeen
Hotel
In 1840 Richard South held the licence for the
Traveller's Home at
Murrurundi.
Richard South arrived on the City of Edinburgh in in May 1837. He
had a narrow escape from bushrangers in 1840. While travelling alone near
Singleton, he was taken prisoner and held at
gunpoint by bushrangers later to be known as the
'Jewboy Gang'.
They robbed him of his horse, saddle and bridle. He
managed to
make his escape on this occasion however, the gang
did not forget and three weeks later when they
rode into Pages River, one of them - John
Marshall - threatened to deal with Richard South
before they left the Traveller's Home Inn. (Australasian Chronicle)
The Inn was advertised to be let in 1843:
(30)
'The old
established and well known Inn called the Traveller's Home' on the great Northern Road to
Liverpool Plains and New England, and situated at
Pages River, Murrurundi. The Inn is a commodious building containing four
sitting rooms eight bed rooms pantries and servant's
bed rooms; as also attached Bar and Tap, neatly
fitted up with bed rooms for travellers and every
other suitable convenience. The detached buildings
consist of excellent stables, hay lofts and
granaries, coach house, large store, kitchen and
servants' apartment above, court yard pailed in,
with a never failing well of good water in the
centre, piggeries, calf pens, cooperage, and every
accommodation for a public establishment; and which
has been carried on as a profitable and money making
business for a period of six years.'
Attached to the Inn was a good garden, stocked with choice fruit trees
and vegetables, two paddocks and also a stockyard, which was being used
as a public pound near the inn
(31)
David Teys
was advertising the
Travellers Home Inn in September 1848
(32)
In June 1852
he announced that he was moving from his usual abode to premises in the
centre of
Murrurundi opposite the Court House where he intended to carry
on business as usual under the original sign (late 'Phoenix"). He
offered well selected spirits etc as well as stables and moderate
accommodation charges and included the following verse in his ad:
It's true that long
looked for reform is past,
For that ancient
old sign is shifted at last;
So if ever you
travel the Great Northern Road
Call at this inn
and take your abode;
You can't make a
mistake, its so very well known,
For the welcome old
sign is the Traveller's Home'
In September 1852 William J. Innes
announced that he had 'fitted up and re opened at considerable expense
the old established house at Murrurundi previously known as the
Travellers Home.' It was to be known under the sign of the Maryville
Inn.
The Inn was well placed to capture the
trade of the diggers en route to the
Hanging Rock Gold Diggings
(29)SH
13 September 1841
(30)MM 25 November 1843
(31)MM 2 December 1843
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