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”.
Stop 2 Goldie street / AC Peacock Produce Merchant
Shiploads have not been the only general merchandise shop on this site. The business became Peacock and Lewis in 1923. The building was destroyed by fire in 1925.
Stop 1 Main street looking north
This street used to be known as Main street. It housed many shops as it does today, but the traffic was a lot different.