Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Painting - painting, watercolour, Horse and Jockey Hotel Orford, 01.02.1984
Painted for Mrs Ruby Young whose family owned the hotel at one time - (since burnt down)
The hotel was built around 1857 near "Shaw Crossing" when Cowton and Bland selected the site because the bullockies watered and rested their stock on route Belfast and Portland.
The name of the hotel came about because the winning post for the horse races was in front of the inn and the jockeys weighed in there.Illustration of a hotel that became the hub of social life in Orford that no longer exists.Watercolour painting of "Horse and Jockey" Hotel Orford. Frame composite wooden gilt embossingChristopher Mathews Ruby Young 1989
50 Whalers Road
Victor Harbor S.A. 5211
1/2/84local history, illustrations, watercolours, horse and jockey hotel, ruby young, horseracing