Ward's Turf Hotel, 1872
Mayne Street Gulgong, looking west.
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Michael Ward was licensee of Turf Hotel. 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)
1873 - Positive and Unreserved Sale
Valuable Freehold Property
ANNUAL RENTAL £200
WARD’S TURF HOTEL
AND Theatre Royal
PLUNKETT & CO. HAVE received instructions from Mr. M. WARD [who is about to leave for England] to sell by auction at their Office, Queen Street on SATURDAY the 22 Instant at 2.30 p.m.
The TURF HOTEL, together with the Freehold Allotment of land upon which the same is erected.
The premises are not let on lease to a respectable tenant at four pounds per week, free of all taxes.
The Hotel contains:—
BAR10 BEDROOMS2 PARLOURS andLARGE BILLIARD ROOM
Attached to the Hotel is the substantially built
THEATRE ROYAL
100 feet long by 30 feet wide, comfortably fitted up to seat 800 persons.
The Out Premises Consist of a large and commodious Kitchen and Store-rooms, the whole being in keeping the adjuncts of a first class establishment.
The Auctioneers invite special attention to this IMPORTANT and BONA FIDE SALE, which affords Capitalists an opportunity of making a safe and profitable investment. Terms at Sale
Source: GULGONG MINER, 29 November 1873
