Historical information

John J. Huntly appears to have been the only licensee of the Royal Oak Hotel, built in 1858. Commercial Hotel Bank Street Port Fairy Formerly known as The Royal Oak and then renamed The Royal Oak in the 1990's. A verandah was added in 1900. Around 1877 the hotel various rooms for visiting doctors and a dentist. Dr Berncastle who was associated with the Sydney Eye Infirmary performed several operations there on those suffering from cataracts. It was the meeting place for the Port Fairy Freemasons, before their lodge was built in James Street and all local sporting clubs at one time or another. Also a Cobb & Co staging post.

Physical description

Large Black and white Photograph of the Commercial Hotel

Inscriptions & markings

Left hand top corner in Ball point pen- PRESENTED BY MR RON McLEAN
Right hand top corner in pen - COMMERCIAL HOTEL
Museum Number - 62.04B.012