Tasmania Living History QR Code Walks

Stop 12 The Old Post Office Wynyard

Find out what Gavin is about to get up to. This part of Goldie Street used to be known as “the Esplanade’ and has alot more commercial activity than what you see today.

Stop 11 The Old Wynyard Courthouse

If these walls could talk they would have some interesting tales to tell of rogues and robbers, and administrators of the great and the good!

Stop 10 JH Stutterd’s Store and residence

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 9 JH Stutterd’s Store

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 8 Wynyard Wharf

In the mid-1850s trading and fishing vessels are recorded as having been moored in the Inglis River at spots from the Cape Road bridge back to Camp Creek on both sides of the river. The Inglis River wharf would become a very busy port until the late 1930s with trading ketches unloading supplies for retail stores and products for the farming industry. Potatoes and timber were the main loads for the return trips.

Stop 7 Sadler solicitors

There’s not much here these days but at one time, this part of Goldie street was known as “The Esplanade” and was filled with a variety of businesses, including this one. Later, the main business street moved southward along the now called, Goldie Street. C. 1910 Sadlers were the local solicitors.

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”.