Victoria Hotel (Sebastopol)

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Victoria Hotel
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Town Ballarat
Street Albert Street
Closed 31 December 1915
Known dates 1865-1915

The Victoria Hotel was a hotel in Ballarat, Victoria, <1865-1915.

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The Victoria Hotel was in Sebastopol.[1] In 1868 the hotel was described as being at Cobblers, on the junction of Cambrian Hill, Cherry-tree, and Ross's Creek roads.[2] There is a Victoria Hotel shown in an 1866 photograph of Albert Street, Sebastopol, being down the road from the National Hotel.[3]

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History[edit | edit source]

Marcus Jensen applied for the license in July 1865:

A similar application was filed with the undersigned, Clerk of Petty Sessions, by MARKUS JENSEN, of Sebastopol, in the Borough of Sebastopol, in said colony of Victoria, for house situate at Sebastopol aforesaid; containing two sitting rooms five bed rooms, with bar, &c., his own property, and to be known as the sign of The Victoria Hotel. (Signed) MARKUS JENSEN. WILLIAM HOGARTH, Clerk of Petty Sessions, Ballarat, 11th July, 1865.[4]

In December 1868 the hotel was offered for sale:

HOTEL PROPERTY, COBBLERS. To Hotel-keepers, Investors, and Others. JAMES ODDIE and CO, have received instructions from the proprietor, Mr L. Burke, to sell by auction, on Thursday, 17th December, at One o'clock. THE VICTORIA HOTEL, COBBLERS, doing a business second to none, in the district of Ballarat, being in close proximity to the Prince of Wales, Bonshaw, and New Prince of Wales claims, and an easy distance from the United Albion, Working Miners, Winter's Freehold, and others. Also commanding a good country trade, being on the junction of the Cambrian Hill, Cherry-tree, and Ross's Creek roads. The Hotel, which is a substantial wooden building, nearly new, with iron roof, contains 9 bedrooms, large dining-room, parlor, bagatelle-room, and spacious bar and cellar.[2]

The hotel did not sell at auction, and Burke was advertising it as being for sale or lease in February 1869.[5]

In December 1889 a man was fined for assaulting the publican, Constance Rees, at the hotel:

SEBASTOPOL POLICE COURT. Messrs Hughes, Dickinson, and Leckie, J’s.P., occupied the bench yesterday at the Sebastopol Police Court, when a number of cases emanating from over-indulgence in drink were dealt with...Thomas Tudor was reported by Constable Nicholson to have behaved somewhat threatening in Victoria hotel, and acted unbecomingly toward the licensee, Mrs Rees, by pushing her, and thus calling into action preventive measures by several young men in the bar. Tommy was ordered by their worships to part with £2 1s, and the court adjourned.[6]

On 22 March 1915, the hotel was included on a list of hotels to be deprived of their licenses. This list was complied by the Licenses Reduction Board in Melbourne. Licensing district hearings for hotels on this list were to be held at the Ballarat Supreme Court on 11 May.[1] The hotel was one of about 40 hotels closed by the License Reduction Board and ceased trading at 9.30pm on 31 December 1915.[7] The court paid £230 compensation.[8]


Community Involvement[edit | edit source]

  • In April 1875 the hotel was the venue for an inquest into the death of James Flood, a fifteen year old boy who had fractured his skull falling down the shaft of the Prince of Wales mine at Sebastopol.[9]


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  1. 1.0 1.1 1915 'LICENSES REDUCTION BOARD.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 23 March, p. 10, viewed 13 February, 2014, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1504941
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 1868 'Advertising.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1870; 1914 - 1918), 17 December, p. 3, viewed 28 October, 2014, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112881942
  3. Albert Street in Sebastopol, 1866, State Library of Victoria, Accession no. H2967. - See more at: http://prov.vic.gov.au/blog-news/150-years-of-sebastopol#sthash.ATdJxeVH.dpuf
  4. 1865 'Advertising', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 12 July, p. 3. , viewed 02 Jan 2024, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112877169
  5. 1869 'Advertising', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 4 February, p. 3. , viewed 25 Sep 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112883066
  6. 6.0 6.1 1889 'SEBASTOPOL POLICE COURT.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 13 December, p. 4. , viewed 25 Jan 2023, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209576910
  7. 1915 'DELICENSED', The Evening Echo (Ballarat, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), 31 December, p. 4. (FOURTH EDITION), viewed 04 Feb 2018, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241695876
  8. 1915 'LICENSING ACT 1915.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 10 November, p. 15, viewed 10 September, 2015, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1578545
  9. 1875 'NEWS AND NOTES.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 26 April, p. 2. , viewed 24 Sep 2018, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208253319
  10. 1865 'POLICE.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 21 July, p. 4. , viewed 05 Jun 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112877411
  11. 1881 'THE ANNUAL LICENSING MEETINGS.', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 23 December, p. 3. , viewed 13 Jun 2019, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202597886
  12. 1890 'No title', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 22 October, p. 2. , viewed 10 Jan 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204140135
  13. 1891 'No title', The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), 7 April, p. 2. , viewed 10 Jan 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209713546


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