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JOINERS' ARMS HOTEL
Date Opened : 1838
Date Closed : 1851
Address :
Franklin Street Adelaide
History
| COLTMAN'S HOTEL | 1838 | 1841 |
| BUSH HOTEL | 1841 | 1841 |
| ROYAL HOTEL AND BUSH CLUB HOUSE | 1841 | 1847 |
| BUSH CLUBHOUSE | 1847 | 1849 |
| JOINERS' ARMS HOTEL | 1849 | 1851 |
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Publicans
| “Coltman’s” Hotel was situated in Franklin Street. Standing back from the street, its frontage extended from Cannon to Tatham Streets, with entrances from each thoroughfare. A coffee room, supplied a dally “ordinary” consisting of “the delicacies of the season,” together with “soups—alternately mock turtle, a-la-mode, mullagatawny, ox-tail, and gravy”; at all hours “coffee, tea, chops, steak, etc.” were available. Probably as an incentive to business, the proprietor conducted a lottery In 1839, when twenty prizes were offered to every sixty tickets sold. The prizes consisted of the various articles so greatly esteemed at the time, a large musical box, plated cruet stands (complete with glassware), candlesticks, and a variety of engravings and oils. “Coltman's” became the “Royal Hotel and Bush Club House” in 1841, but was generally known as the “Royal Bush.” In 1843 Joseph Barnett, a subsequent licensee, claimed his slate billiard table to be one of the best in the colony. Continuing as the “Joiners' Arms” in 1849, the hotel appears to have passed out of existence in 1850 or 1851. J. McLellan 1941 |