The Steam Packet Hotel, Taree
It was here that he erected an hotel reputedly known as the “Ship Inn”, and later the “Steam Packet Hotel”…
It was here that he erected an hotel reputedly known as the “Ship Inn”, and later the “Steam Packet Hotel”…
The corner of Victoria and Manning Streets, Taree where the Exchange Hotel now stands (2020) was once known as ‘Whitbread’s Corner’. Samuel and Mary Whitbread arrived from England as assisted immigrants on the ship ‘Equestrian’ in 1848…
The pneumonic influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 had a devastating impact on the world population, leaving more casualties in its wake than the Great War…
A new brick hotel, constructed by local contractor H W Alcorn, was built on the corner of Victoria and Manning Street opposite Clerke’s butcher shop…
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