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Hotels in Bourke, New South Wales
Find out more about Bourke and surrounding areas in the Kidman Way to Longreach and Townsville Pub Trail »
Back Of Bourke Hotel (The) (The Northy)
Temporary Back of Bourke Hotel
Open again for the patrons.
Photo 09/09/2010
Photo submitted by Peter Simpfendorfer, Many Thanks
Back Of Bourke Hotel
Great news , a temporary Pub is now open and trading for the faithful!! - Simpy.
"The Pub was built by my great grandfather William Murphy. It burnt down last Wednesday night (5/5/2010)
"My mum's dad (Walter Rowland Murphy) was born in the pub (29/9/93) and lived there for the first 7 years of his life.
His Father built the pub after making heaps of money during the 1890 flood when the whole of Bourke town were camped at North Bourke because the main town was flooded out.
He was proprietor of the Bridge Hotel up the road during the flood and he named his new hotel down on the corner near the North Bourke Bridge the ‘Australian Hotel’ (commonly known as Murphy's Pub).
The road coming west off the Bridge was bent around his pub and the one next door rather than the pub being moved.
It later became the Riverview Hotel and that's what it was when we arrived in Bourke in 1996 (commonly known as the Northy) and later the name was changed again to Back O Bourke Hotel (I think).
Some Photo's attached
Regards
Kevin"
The building on fire by the owners (Anne-Marie & Phil Parnaby) of the ‘Back O Bourke Motel’ (up the Hungerford road a bit) and the morning after photos were taken by the owners (Jen & Steve Greentree) of ‘Back O Bourke Gallery’ just up the Enngonia road a bit.
Comments from when it was open
Great looking Pub.
Pre 2010 "back of Bourke" in colloquial use refers to being a long way from anywhere and means that that this is where the outback starts.
Or alternately if you are sitting at this bar you are in the closest part of the outback to the capital city Sydney.
- Address:
- 2 Darling St
North Bourke
New South Wales 2540 - Phone:
- (02) 6872 2614
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Oxford Hotel
Oxford Hotel
Photo 25/04/2008
Photo submitted by Gary Bell, Many Thanks
Oxford Hotel
- Address:
- 71 Anson St
Bourke
New South Wales 2840 - Phone:
- 02 6872 2034
Port O Bourke Hotel
Port O Bourke Hotel
Photo 25/04/2009
Photo submitted by Gary Bell, Many Thanks
Port O Bourke Hotel
Has Accommodation
- Address:
- 32 Mitchell Street,
Bourke
New South Wales 2840 - Phone:
- 02 6872 2544
Post Office Hotel
Post Office Hotel
Photo 25/04/2009
Photo submitted by Gary Bell, Many Thanks
Post Office Hotel
Built in 1888 as the Post Office Hotel by E M Luscomb.
Was known as Fitz's when Paddy Fitzgerald and his family held the licence from 1890 until 1957.
Later regained to its original name.
Australian Heritage Listed
- Address:
- 28 Oxley Street,
Bourke,
New South Wales 2840 - Phone:
- 02 6872 2013
Former Central Australian Hotel
Former Central Australian Hotel
Photo 10/04/2008.
Photos submitted by Glenn Ryan and information submitted by Glenn Ryan and Roy Howarth, Many Thanks
Former Central Australian Hotel
Standing like a forgotten temple to art deco architecture, this closed watering hole looked towards the former railway line to Bourke (closed 1990).
Apparently the old hotel was known locally as the ‘Central’, certainly the Central Australian Hotel is a curious name for a pub in north western NSW.
I did some detective work and apparently a local Bourke plumber bought the building five years ago with the view to providing backpacker accommodation.
Not too much has occurred in the restoration game to this incongruous building as seen by the photos – the only art deco building in town.
- Glenn Ryan. Thanks Glenn
Additional Comments - Roy Howarth
Interesting facade - unless I'm mistaken it looks like a Victorian-era Pub that had been stripped of its ornate lattice-work and mouldings to give it a "modern" face in the jazz era. The wrap-around balcony would be a giveaway as to its origins.
It would be interesting to see if it was equally modernised inside (geometric patterns, wall/bar tilework etc), or if the ornate Wunderlich pressed ceilings are still in place!
- Roy. Thanks Roy
- Address:
- Richard St
Bourke
New South Wales 2840
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Information on Bourke, NSW 2540
Courtesy: Tourism New South Wales. Region: Outback New South Wales
Bourke Shire is located in far north west NSW on the Darling River.
