Railway Hotel (Ballarat)

For other hotels with the same or similar names see Railway Hotel

Railway Hotel

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History
Town	Ballarat
Street	Lydiard Street
Closed	1884
Known dates	1873
Other names	Woolstencroft's Hotel Grand Hotel
Demolished	Building demolished 1884

The Railway Hotel was a hotel in Ballarat, <1873-1884.

Site

The hotel was in Lydiard Street. It was demolished in 1884 when the publican, Simeon Cohen, built the Grand Hotel on this site. This is not the Railway Hotel on the corner of Mair and Lydiard Streets which opened in 1913.

History

In May 1874, a man choked to death in the dining room of the hotel:

An inquest was held at the Royal George hotel, on Monday, on the body of the man, John Ball, who died whilst at dinner in the Railway hotel and dining-rooms, Lydiard street, on 9th May; The medical evidence showed that two large pieces of meat had stuck in the man’s throat, and pressed so against the orifice of the windpipe as to cause suffocation.

The People

• In December 1873 and 1874, William Woolstencroft had his license renewed.
• In January 1880 the license was transferred from William Woolstencroft to Simeon Cohen.