Tasmania Living History QR Code Walks

Stop 4 The Advocate- Emu Bay Times – Community Tree

Once the site of Emu Bay Times and then the Advocate, with the same Norfolk pine planted in front of the Anglican Church all these years later. This pine has been decorated with thousands of programmable LED lights, to create a spectacular show in Christmas, but also to mark other events and days of significance.

Stop 3 Cattley Street Looking East

At one time this part of the street was home to some of Burnie’s early residents. Children would play on the dirt road in front, and recently planted trees lined one-half of the street. The original houses still exist within the modern structures, their facades obscuring their original roof line.

Stop 2 Burnie Court House/ The Imperial

This used to be a guest house built in 1902. It was quite upmarket in its early days, but over time became more run down and operated as a boarding house before its demolition to build the Burnie Magistrates court house.

Stop 6 Looking South along ‘Main’ street

This streetscape has changed a bit, and so has the traffic. The sounds you would hear along this street would have been very different from what you hear today. It was a key commercial area for Wynyard, as it is today.

Stop 5 National Stores

The very first hotel on this site was a weatherboard building called the Royal Hotel. Mr John Bauld was the first licensee in 1892-93. In 1910 an advertisement in the local newspaper offered “a large paddock, well grassed and fenced, for the use of drovers”.

Stop 4 The ‘Bottom Don’ merchants

The Wynyard branch of the River Don Trading Company was established about 1904. Being a large establishment and able to bulk buy goods, the company was able to retail all classes of wares at the lowest possible rates.

Stop 3 Hotel Federal

The very first hotel on this site was a weatherboard building called the Royal Hotel. Mr John Bauld was the first licensee in 1892-93. In 1910 an advertisement in the local newspaper offered “a large paddock, well grassed and fenced, for the use of drovers”.