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Built / licensed: 1874. Refurbished in 1882.

Location: 155 High St, Kew

Delicensed: N/A

Status of building: Existing hotel

Other names: The Skinny Dog Hotel

Heritage Reviews / Conservation studies: City of Boroondara - Thematic Environmental History (March 2012) pp. 106. 107, 109, 111.

City of Kew Urban Conservation Study (1988) - Volume 2, Part 2

Kew Junction Commercial Heritage Study (2011)

MMBW Maps: Detail plan 1580, 1903.

Skinny Dog Hotel, 2011 (Image: Google Maps)

Comments: Built on the site of Kitchingman's butchery. Described as "containing 11 rooms and a bar". The Greyhound was one of the few hotels to retain its licence in 1920, and still operates today as the Skinny Dog Hotel.

Licensees:

Jun 1872 - James Bennett

1881 - Charlotte Bennett

1882/85 - William L. Ambler

1886/91 - J. D. Dougherty

1894/5 - Thomas Henry Webb

1919 - Albert Thompson

1938 - Edward James Coates

1939-40 - Reuben Le Lievre (also listed as LeLeivre)

1941-42 - Frederick Thomas Barber

1943-48 - Charles Stewart Turnley