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The Hopetoun Hotel, colloquially referred to as The Hoey, [1] is a historic Sydney hotel and live music venue in Surry Hills.It was built somewhere between 1836 and 1839, originally under the name of the Cookatoo Inn and then in 1901 revamped and named in honour of the first Governor General, Lord Hopetoun. [2]
Surry Hills is immediately south-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney. Surry Hills is surrounded by the suburbs of Darlinghurst to the north, Chippendale and Haymarket to the west, Moore Park and Paddington to the east and Redfern to the south. [2] It is often colloquially referred to ...
The movie Tim was filmed at the Hotel Hollywood as was Erskineville Kings (1999). [16] The film clip Boots was filmed at the hotel and features Doris Goddard (actress and publican) singing and playing guitar in the credits. [17] Other television series filmed at the Hollywood include Blue Murder, Brides of Christ and Water Rats. [16]
The White Horse Hotel was constructed in the 1930s when Surry Hills was a working-class suburb. [2] British historian Jane Peyton writes that at that time, the hotel was a central gathering place for colourful characters. [2] Since then, Surry Hills has become gentrified over time and with it the Hotel has improved significantly.
Crown Street is a 2.3-kilometre (1.4 mi) street in the inner Sydney suburbs of Woolloomooloo, East Sydney, Darlinghurst and Surry Hills in New South Wales, Australia.The Surry Hills section is lined with restaurants and shops and includes the Crown Street Public School, the Surry Hills Library and Community Centre, and the White Horse Hotel.
Durham Hall is located on part of the land grant of 28 hectares (70 acres) to John Palmer on 1 April 1794. Isaac Nichols purchased part of Allotment 20 in August 1814. After subdivision in 1833 the land was bought by Thomas Broughton and subsequently by George Hill, in 1835 [5] who built Durham Hall on this and adjoining lots.
The Botanic Chambers, Adelaide (1877) is a row of seven Italianate houses that has the distinction of being of the few terrace rows in Australia built in conjunction with a pub, the Botanic Hotel (1877), both designed by the same architect, Michael McMullen. [112] The Botanic Hotel features three levels of progressively stepped back balconies ...
Captain Joseph Foveaux was the first Surry Hills landowner. Samuel Terry , an ex-convict controlled 19,000 acres of pastoral land at the southern end of the city in the area now known as Surry Hills. The Crown Hotel is located on the corner of Elizabeth and Goulburn streets, just outside the area of Donaldson's Farm and on land originally known ...