Ward's Turf Hotel, Gulgong. 1870-75
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Michael Ward was licensee of Turf Hotel - in Mayne Street between White Bros cordial manufacturers and Roger's Thousand Wonders Store. Attached to the rear of this hotel was the Theatre Royal, and at one time it was managed by Miss Joey Gougenheim, a name in Gulgong theatre circles.
Source: Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong (July 2006)
Source: Note supplied by Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong (July 2006)
Illustration, Mayne Street
Source: Artist Rex Backhaus-Smith
History of 137 Mayne Street
Ownership
This property. Allot 7, Sec 2 in the village of Gulgong was originally owned by Michael Ward. He became insolvent and the property was transferred to John Piper Mackenzie.
Source: HLRV
In March 1875, the property was transferred to John Tuxford of Gulgong. Tuxford's mortgage with the Bank of NSW was discharged in 1910 and his son, Martin Tuxford, produce merchant, became joint tenant with Frederick William Heard, postal assistant. In 1918 Martin Tuxford became sole tenant
At some stage Martin Tuxford's daughter, Pearl May Dyer, wife of Eric Dyer of Bankstown, became proprietor and in 1946 she transferred the property to Benjamin Lorne Campbell, farmer and grazier. In 1949 it transferred again to Roland Thomas Robert Campbell and John Archibald Campbell, bother farmers of Gulgong. In 1950 it transferred from the Campbells to Leslie William Tunley, medical practitioner and Donald Hunter Dougan, Chemist and Hector Dundonald Burns, station manager at Summervale.
Usage
- A man named A W Wood appears to have had a business called "Auction Mart" in Gulgong (address unknown)
- Les Pye had a furniture shop on Herbert Street in the early 1950s and was also an Auctioneer, Estate Agent and Valuer. He used Gulgong Phone no 216 as seen on the faded signage pictured below
- Mick Perring: Jimmy Grimshaw conducted auctions there
- Amanda Spring: Les Pye ran regular auctions from that building
- Robert Tuxford: my great grandfather use to own it at one stage it was a produce store
- Robert Tuxford: my father had a billiard room in about 1948
- Peter Martin and Kevin Robinson had the scouts and cubs there before the coffee house
- Barry Conroy: I think the Judo I went to there was probably organized by the scouts, about 1965 or 66.
- Sue Bennett: Rural Youth held monthly meetings there
- Meg Cumberland had a restaurant there called the Coffee shop restaurant
- Mrs Fletcher had a coffee house there
AUCTION MART
Licensed Auctioneer. Phone 216
GOODS BOUGHT AND SOLD FOR TOP PRICES
137 Mayne Street, 1966
Source: State Library
137 Mayne Street, 1966
Source: State Library
An awning accident, 17 April 1986
Source: Emma Wicks
