Dorothy M. Gibson-Wilde and Bruce C. Gibson-Wilde (1988) A Pattern of Pubs: Hotels of Townsville 1864-1914. Studies in North Queensland History (no. 9). James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, QLD, Australia ISBN 0864432720 https://doi.org/10.25903/nemg-nb97
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- Work By
- Author: Dorothy M. Gibson-Wilde
Author: Bruce C. Gibson-Wilde - Item Type
- Book
- Collection
- North Queensland Collection
- Location
- Townsville Campus Library
- Item Code
- NQ 647.94943601 GIB
- Related Links
- ResearchOnline@JCU: Dorothy Gibson-Wilde Honours Thesis
- ResearchOnline@JCU: Dorothy Gibson-Wilde PhD Thesis
- Women of the North Blog Post: Female Publicans
- North Queensland History Blog Post: A Pub On Every Corner
- Subjects
- Pubs; Hotels; Townsville; Publicans; Architecture
Summary
Written by Dorothy and Bruce Gibson-Wilde and published by James Cook University's History Department in 1988, A Pattern of Pubs: Hotels of Townsville 1864-1914 is no. 9 in the series Studies in North Queensland History. This work represents a comprehensive survey of hotels in the first 50 years of white settlement in Townsville.
Early hotels played an important role in the development of regional towns, as they offered accommodation and meals for both locals and travellers alike, as well as served as a place to hold community meetings before purpose-built facilities existed.
The first section of the book contains chapters that cover information on the role and types of hotels, publicans and their place in the community, and how hotels reflected the pattern of growth in Townsville. A chapter on the design of hotels focuses on the phases of architectural styles and building trends represented during this period.
The remainder of the book is laid out in an accessible directory style. Part II is an alphabetical list of hotels. Each entry includes alternate names a hotel may have been known by, its location, and lists the names of licensees and the date range they held the license (where known). This is followed by a summary of historical and anecdotal information. Part III is a register of licensed publicans, arranged alphabetical by surname. This is mainly a list of dates hotel licenses were held but brief biographical details are included in some entries.
Fully referenced and generously illustrated with photographs, maps and other archival material, A Pattern of Pubs also contains a Foreword by Professor Brian Dalton, Foundation Professor of History at JCU. Dalton oversaw a history publishing program at JCU that lasted more than two decades and resulted in a prolific output of new knowledge about North Queensland, telling the story of the region in an innovative way.
Trisha Fielding
2024
Additional Information
Trisha Fielding is an historian and writer whose published works include the books University for the North: James Cook University 1970-2020, Asleep in the Deep: A Love Lost on the SS Yongala, Neither Mischievous nor Meddlesome: The Remarkable Lives of North Queensland's Independent Midwives 1890-1940, Queen City of the North: A History of Townsville, and the history blogs North Queensland History and Women of the North. She holds a Master of History degree from the University of New England and a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction majoring in History and Journalism from the University of Southern Queensland.
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Copyright Information
© Bruce C. Gibson-Wilde 2022. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits the redistribution of the work in its current form for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)