Some North Adelaide pubs Bits and pieces, mostly related to various actual North Adelaide pub-crawls, others (I believe) previously unpublished photographs, plans etc. Refer also to the North Adelaide Historic Pub-crawl. • • • Kermode Street pubs (or where were the Farmer's Arms, Hibernia, Star and Garter and the original Scotch Thistle?) Three or four possible pubs on or near the corner of Kermode Street and what is now King William Street: ➊ possible Critchell's Hibernia Inn, 1840-1842; ➋ probable Dick's original Scotch Thistle which might have also been the site for Easton's Farmer's Arms, 1840-1841, and ➌ definitely the Scotch Thistle later Catherdral Hotel. [SLSA, Detail from an aerial view of the Adelaide Children's Hospital, B-70494, c1880; click on image to enlarge] [SLSA, Plan of the City of Adelaide..., C-229; click on image to go to the complete map] [Left] Detail of Penman and Galbraith's Plan of the City of Adelaide, showing...hotels &tc, 1851, including those near the corner of Kermode Street and what is now King William Road. Despite "very handsome drawings" for the "Star and Garter", the Bench of Magistrates refused it a licence in June 1851. The City of Adelaide assessment book for 1851 described the property on acre 718, the original Scotch Thistle, as a "Public House. 8 Rooms with 4 Cottages at the Back, 2 Rooms each used as Bedrooms and Stable", as shown as still standing in Smith Survey of 1880 below left. [City of Adelaide Archives, Smith's Survey 1880; click on image to enlarge] [Left] Composite sheets from Smith's Survey of 1880 showing the same intersection of Kermode and Poole Streets as above in 1879-80; this plan is almost directly comparable to the photograph above. . • • • The (proposed) North Adelaide Hotel, 1881-1882 In March 1882 William Beaglehole, brewer, gave notice of his intent to erect the North Adelaide Hotel on the corner of Jeffcott and Buxton Streets. The proposed hotel would have been the only pub west of Jeffcott Street. After "two-thirds of the ratepayers within the immediate neighbourhood" petitioned against the hotel, in June 1882 the Adelaide Licensing Bench refused Beaglehole's application for a license. Instead, perhaps, Beaglehole built the Lion Hotel. Plans for the North Adelaide Hotel, [SLSA: Woods Bagot papers, BRG18/68-72, very poor original; click image to enlarge] • • • The (Old) Lion and Lion Brewery Following are, I believe, previously unpublished photographs of the [Old] Lion Hotel from the South Australian Brewery Archives in the State Library of South Australia. The Lion Hotel, c.1929 [SLSA: South Australian Brewing Company Archives; click image to enlarge] Aerial photographs of the Lion Hotel and Brewery, 1936 [SLSA: South Australian Brewing Company Archives; click images to enlarge] Refer also to a presentation on the Lion Brewery cellars and some earlier bits and pieces on the Lion Brewery cellars. • • • The British Mary Conlin's British Hotel, 1929 [SLSA: South Australian Brewing Company Archives; click images to enlarge] Plans of the British Hotel, 1951 [SLSA: South Australian Brewing Company Archives, poor copy; click images to enlarge] • • • O'Connell Street Tom Brown's Oxford Hotel, 1930 [SLSA: South Australian Brewing Company Archives; click images to enlarge] Alexander Conlin's Royal Oak, c1929 [SLSA: South Australian Brewing Company Archives, poor copy; click images to enlarge] • • • Posted 25 April 2024 Original content © Craig Hill 2024