Hotels in Kerry, Queensland

Former Kerry Bridge Hotel

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This advertisement appeared in the Beaudesert Herald 23/09/1904

"Having now completed the erection and furnishing of the above Hostelry JT
Dicks can offer the best accommodation to travellers and others. The Kerry Bridge Hotel will be found replete in every detail.

NB JTD will make an application for a license the next Licensing Court on 5th October" (JT (Tom) Dicks had the Kerry coach run at this time)

Licensees who later held the Kerry Bridge Hotel License were:

· Catherine Massie - 1905
· James Rafter - 1908
· Billy Berger – 1912
· Tom Power – 1913
· John Reilly Smith – 1924
· Richard Capron – 1944
· Percival Willmet – 1945

Other licensees after 1945 included Cliff White and Kevin Bowden. The last licensee was Lorrie Wilde (formerly Schipke). She had the hotel from 1970 to 1974 when the license was transferred to the Kuraby Hotel. Lorrie and husband resided at the hotel after it ceased trading.

Guests of O’Reilly's Guest House usually came by coach and stayed at the Kerry Bridge Hotel overnight before riding horses up the Stockyard Creek track accompanied by members of the O’Reilly's family, to the Guest House