Opinion | Yesterday Today with Alan McRae

By Alan McRae
November 13 2017 - 5:30am
Nice Drop: Beer drinkers catered for in George Street. Hogarth’s Park Hotel and halfway down the street is Michael Meaney’s Metropolitan Hotel in the early 1900s.
Nice Drop: Beer drinkers catered for in George Street. Hogarth’s Park Hotel and halfway down the street is Michael Meaney’s Metropolitan Hotel in the early 1900s.

The Police Magistrates were often critical of the number of hotels as compared to the number of citizens that lived in the town. 

They were right, Bathurst has always been able to boast plenty of hotels and this week there are two of the George Street hotels opposite Machattie Park. Hogarth’s Park Hotel and halfway down the street is Michael Meaney’s Metropolitan Hotel beside Webb and Company in the early 1900s. Daniel Howgarth was licensee of the ‘first’ Park Hotel from 1904 to 1911 having taken over from John Foster.

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