Ballan Hotel

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Ballan Hotel
Ballan Hotel, 2011
History
Town Ballan
Known dates 1856-2011
Other names aka Flack's Hotel
Evidence Building still in use
Google maps -37.600005, 144.225241

The Ballan Hotel was a hotel in Ballan, Victoria, <1856-2011>.

Site[edit | edit source]

The hotel is on the north west corner of Fisken and Inglis Streets, Ballan.[1]

Address: 136 Inglis St, Ballan VIC 3342. Map Ref: -37.600005, 144.225241.[2]

Map[edit | edit source]

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Background[edit | edit source]

The hotel dates from 1856 and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Database.[1] Also known as Flack's Hotel.[3]


History[edit | edit source]

The hotel was built in 1856 by George Flack.[1] The stables were used by Cobb and Co.[1]

The hotel's safe was stolen in June 1931:

ROBBERY AT BALLAN. Hotel Safe Stolen. The theft of an iron safe and its contents valued it £40 from the Ballan Hotel was reported to the Ballan police at 8 o'clock on Friday morning by the licensee Mr H. S. Jackson. The safe contained three bank books, a Victualler's licence made out in the name of H. S. Jackson, a black note book, 18 bottles of gin, four bottles of whisky, 16 boxes of cigarettes of various brands and £2/10 in cash. Entrance was gained by the thieves between the hours of 3 o'clock and 7 o'clock in the morning by breaking a pane of glass in the rear of the building.[4]

The publican was thanked by the local council in September 1936:

ONE of the landmark in Ballan is the Ballan Hotel, the licensee of which for the past 14 years has been Mr Harry A. Jackson, one of the most popular sportsmen of the district. For 45 years the Municipal Council has held its quarterly dinner at the well known hotel, and as a gesture from the Council during the Centenary celebrations, Mr and Mrs Jackson were presented with an enlarged photograph of the president and members of the Council. Many officials of the leading road races which pass Ballan use the commercial room of the hotel, cheerfully provided by the licensee for checking purposes.[5]

The hotel was broken into in January 1938:

THIEVES AT BALLAN. BALLAN, Sunday. Thieves forced an entrance into the store of Messrs. Flack early this morning and stole goods valued at about £30. Ballan Hotel, of which Mr. H. S. Jackson is licensee, was also entered, the cellar door on the verandah being forced. Nothing was stolen.[6]

Jackson left the hotel at the end of 1946:

APPLICATION for TRANSFER of LICENCE. I, Henry Samuel Jackson, the holder of a Victualler's licence for the Ballan Hotel, at Ballan, in the Grant Licensing District, and I, George Raven, of the said Ballan Hotel hereby give notice that we will APPLY to the Licensing Court at Melbourne on Monday, the sixteenth day of December, 1946, for the TRANSFER of the said LICENCE to the said George Raven. Dated this fourth day of December 1946. H. S. JACKSON. Transferor. GEO. RAVEN Transferee. John W. Robertson & Ramsay, of 341 Collins street, Melbourne, solicitors for the transferor. McInerney, Williams, & Curtain, of 90 Queen street, Melbourne, solicitors for the transferee. JAMES O'LOUGHLIN, of 10 Camp street, Ballarat, hotel broker.[7]

After closing the building was used as a real estate office.


Community Involvement[edit | edit source]

Community[edit | edit source]

  • Ancient Order of Foresters, December 1867, monthly meeting.[8]
  • Ballan Agricultural and Pastoral Society, 1873, formed at a meeting but defunct by November 1873.[9]

Sporting[edit | edit source]

  • Ballan Races - January 1888, a meeting to plan the event for March.[10]
  • Caledonian Sports Committee, December 1866, inaugural meeting to establish an event on Boxing Day.[11]
  • Coursing Club - May 1878, meeting to try and establish a club.[12]

Mining[edit | edit source]

The People[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ballan Hotel, BALLAN, MOORABOOL SHIRE, Victorian Heritage Database, https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/69038
  2. Google Maps, https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.600219,144.2254794,583m/data=!3m1!1e3
  3. 3.0 3.1 1874 'Advertising', The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1918), 14 March, p. 2. , viewed 29 Dec 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93141173
  4. 4.0 4.1 1931 'ROBBERY AT BALLAN.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 8 June, p. 5. , viewed 08 Jan 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4389404
  5. 5.0 5.1 1936 'Historic Hotel', Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954), 2 September, p. 11. (Edition2), viewed 08 Jan 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189608928
  6. 6.0 6.1 1938 'THIEVES AT BALLAN', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 10 January, p. 10. , viewed 08 Jan 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11138898
  7. 7.0 7.1 1946 'Advertising', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 7 December, p. 31. , viewed 08 Jan 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22389270
  8. 1867 'BALLAN.', The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1943), 7 December, p. 3. , viewed 08 Jan 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88371659
  9. 1873 'BALLAN.', The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1943), 8 November, p. 2. , viewed 08 Jan 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93142511
  10. 1888 'BALLAN.', The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1918), 14 January, p. 3. , viewed 10 Jan 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89684791
  11. 1866 'BALLAN.', The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1918), 8 December, p. 3. , viewed 06 Jan 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88372745
  12. 1878 'BALLAN.', The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1918), 18 May, p. 3. , viewed 10 Jan 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89702449
  13. 1877 'COURTS OF PETTY SESSIONS.', The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1918), 15 December, p. 3. , viewed 10 Feb 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88348968
  14. 1882 'BALLAN.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 9 December, p. 4. , viewed 11 Jan 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202700628
  15. 1889 'BALLAN.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 25 December, p. 4. , viewed 06 Apr 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209577424
  16. 1886 'BALLAN.', The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1918), 2 January, p. 3. , viewed 08 Jan 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90571917
  17. 1923 'COUNTRY NEWS.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 16 August, p. 14. , viewed 08 Jan 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2020388


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