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an attic, subdivided into bedrooms or "sleeping ovens," close enough in winter, but stuffy, stifling, and almost unendurable in the hot season. The ground floor contained six appartments of divisions, the front quarter facing the river was especially reserved for the accommodation of the most respectable customers. The bar was at the back, and over the door was elevated a signboard, on which was daubed rather than painted a row of large unevenly-sized, ill-proportioned letters, which a stranger after some hesitation deciphered to be
129:... over which he invariably presided himself, and in distributing the viands he was not only capricious but preemptory. One had to take whatever the host gave him, fat or lean, under or over done; the whimsical taste of the carver was alone consulted, and if any eater dared to have a choice or opinion or taste of his own, the knife and fork were twirled in his face, and he was snarlingly told that if he did not like what he got ... he had better clear out and go elsewhere being well aware that his "elsewhere" meant "nowhere."
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Fawkner's pub/hotel was the first public building in
Melbourne It was the social centre of the fledgling community in its first few tentative years of existence. Primitive even by the standard of the time, Fawkner had little incentive to build anything better. He knew a civil administrator would soon
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The hotel had nine rooms by April 1838. There were three rooms and two lofts in the upper floor, and a basement under the ground floor. The business had operated for only a few years when, in 1838, the government announced it wanted the land on which it stood as the site for a
Customs House. Fawkner
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The place was then the side of a green hill, gently sloping toward the river. The house was erected of quartering and broad pailings, with a half-pailing, half shingle roof and hard-wood flooring. It was more properly one-and-a-half than two-stories in height, for the second or upper compartment was
199:, the wife of the former Governor of Tasmania, and her entourage, who arrived in April 1839. A deputation of more than sixty prominent settlers met in the largest room of the hotel to welcome her to Melbourne. She admired Fawkner’s bookroom and library, as did another visitor to the hotel, explorer
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Fawkner had brought his personal book collection from
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Here we found a house of entertainment where we could not get entertained. The building ... comprised six apartments of a very primative order occupied by "Johnny
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in addition to which there will be found mental recreation of a high order. There are provided 7 English and 5 Colonial Weekly newspapers, 7 British monthly magazines, three quarterly
British Reviews up to July & Aug 37. A very choice Selection of books, including novels, poetry, theology,
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Established Hotel in Melbourne Fawkners Hotel supplies to the traveller & sojourner all the usual requisites of a boarding house and hotel of the very best quality being mostly laid in from the best mercantile house in
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on which the settlement stood. Fawkner the other first settlers would then have to demolish any structures they owned and then build new permanent buildings on allotments determined by the official survey.
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was paid £100 in compensation. He had the structure demolished and the building materials were sold to a gunsmith who used them to build a new structure in
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Fawkner's second hotel during its subsequent use as the headquarters of the
Melbourne Club, from State Library Victoria pictures collection.
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His second hotel building was a conventional two-story brick building, with an attic, that lasted, in various guises, for another century.
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Melbourne's missing chronicle; being the journal of preparations for departure to and proceedings at Port
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and was a two-story building, made of brick. Fawkner moved into his new hotel, on the east side of Market Street, near the corner of
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History, Philosophy, Chemistry. NB. A late
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