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Built/licensed: 1858

Location: North-west corner of Warrigal and Toorak Roads.

Delicensed: 1920 following the local option poll

Status of building: demolished

Other names: Burwood Hotel (1881-1920)

Heritage Reviews / Conservation studies: City of Boroondara - Thematic Environmental History (March 2012) pp.13, 106. 199, 158.

City of Boroondara - Camberwell Conservation Study (1991) Volume 2, pp. 70, 103

Map c.1888, showing location of Thorncombe / Burwood Hotel,

Comments: Built by John Hill, in the village of Norwood, marking the eastern edge of the Shire of Boroondara. On Boxing Day and Easter Monday, the Thorncombe Hotel hired a quadrille band and held foot-running and horse races, and greasy-pole contests. It was also a regular location for election speeches to residents of the area.

Licensees:

April 1858 - John Hill

1860 - Richard Pilkington

1861 - James Paget

1862 - Henry Hill

1863 - William Kenny

1864 - George Murdison

1865 - John Jacobs

1869/70 - William Muir

1871/80 - John Creighton Kelly

1873/76 - George Mueller

1876 - Samuel Ellis

1876 - George Mueller

1877 - Alex Riddell

1881 - J. W. Justin

1882 - Alonso George Perkins

1883/84 - Thomas George Bailes

1885 - William Greenough

1886 - Alexander Caddy

1887 - Alfred Cooper

1888/89 - Mrs Dempsey (Listed as Burwood Hotel, Burwood)

1888/90 - James William Weedon

1891 - Mrs Minnie Loughbridge

1895 - Mrs Loughbridge

1896 - Alexander Caddy

1901 - Mary Agnes Noble

1902 - Mary Jane Healey

1906-20 - Marianne (Minnie) Loughbridge