History of convict colonial settlement from the beginnings of the First Fleet in 1788, and other significant parts of Old Sydney Town's heritage.
Showing posts with label Public House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public House. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2016
Ann Bushby's Dove And Olive Branch Public House
The Dove and Olive Branch was a mid-1840s public house at 203 Kent Street, Sydney — on Church Hill in the older western town. After publican Jabez Bushby’s death in 1842, his widow Ann Bushby held the licence and ran the house. She is remembered especially through George Roberts’s watercolour (often dated to the mid-1840s / published context around 1850) showing her in the doorway beneath the pub’s signboard.
Although licensed to sell fermented and spirituous liquors, Ann Bushby did not brew on site. Her advertising offered imported Taylor’s London Porter and local beer from Wright’s Australian Brewery in George Street — a useful reminder that many colonial “brew pubs” were retailers of others beer as much as makers of their own. The State Library of NSW has used the Roberts image in recent Openbook features on colonial drinking and women publicans.
Keep the post anchored to Ann Bushby, the Kent Street / Church Hill location, and the Roberts picture; do not invent later rebuilding stories without a source.
v>Ann Bushby's Dove And Olive Branch Public House
Mrs Bushby's As It Shows, Did Not Brew Her own, As Her Advertising Shows; She Had On Sale Taylor's London Porter, And Local Australian Beer from Wrights Brewery In George Street
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