Early Mitcham settlers Elizabeth and John McGlone ran a hotel 'The Harvest Home Hotel' in the front room of their home in Whitehorse Road Mitcham. The hotel closed in 1889Copy of a watercolour painting of McGlone's Harvest Home Hotel Mitcham by Shirley Jones. Cottage with verandah is white with pink roof centre with palm trees either side of verandah with trees behind. Shirley Jones in bottom left corner . Right front corner Early Hotel Whitehorse Road Mitcham 1956 McGlones Harvest Home Hotel (near Richards Street)illustrations, reproductions

Eliza McGlone was the wife of John McGlone and they were early settlers in Mitcham. They ran one of the earliest hotels in Mitcham: 'The Harvest Home' from 1873. The hotel was conducted in the front room of their house in Whitehorse Road, Mitcham, on the corner of what is now McGlone Street. The hotel closed in 1889. John McGlone died on 3 September 1892 aged 65. Eliza McGlone continued to live in Mitcham until her death on 2 January 1921, aged 85. She had been Mitcham's first official Postmistress and, following several others who had held that position, she returned to that role for a period up to 1914 when Bertha Markham was appointed. The McGlones owned substantial rental properties and had donated one acre in central Mitcham for the Catholic Church. The McGlone Estate was subdivided in 1924, but the name is perpetuated in McGlone Street, Mitcham, near the site of the old Harvest Home Hotel.Black and white photo (three copies of an original taken circa 1890) of Mrs. Eliza McGlone. mcglone, eliza, harvest home hotel, whitehorse road, mitcham, mcglone street

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