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Built/licensed: 1856.

Location: East corner of Canterbury and Broughton Roads, Surrey Hills. 

Delicensed: 1920 after Local Option Poll.

Status of building: Demolished.

Other names: Delany's Hotel

Heritage Reviews / Conservation studies:  City of Boroondara - Camberwell Conservation Study (1991) Volume 2, pp. 2, 103

MMBW Maps: Detail plan 2240, 1910.

Comments: Built by Denis Delany in the 1856, on Canterbury Road (then Delany's Road) near the corner of Warrigal Road. According to the South Bourke Standard (26 April 1867), every Easter Monday, the Nunawading and Boroondara Annual Races are held in the paddock adjoining Delany's hotel, the location being convenient for residents of both districts, and consisted of horse, pony and foot races. The hotel was closed following the local option poll in 1920.

Map of subdivision of Windsor Park, Surrey Hills, showing location of the Royal Hotel c.1894.

Licensees:

1856-1968 - Denis Delany 

Jan 1869 - John MacGlone

May 1869 - Mrs Delany

Patrick John Delany

1882 - John George Cook

1888/91 - William Humberstone

1895 - C. Humberstone

1906 - Catherine Crozier

June 1908 - J. B. Meyers

Sept 1908 - Mary O'Meara

Mar 1911 - George Wellings

Oct 1911 - Robert Coulthard

1914 - Arthur John Forster

1915 - Docie Nesbit

1916 - Honoria Brogan

1919 - Nicholas Anthony Dureau

1920 - Alice Burch