Historical Pub with no beer burns to the ground
Historical Pub with no beer burns to the ground
A sad night in Mossman last night as the old Royal Hotel (the pub with no beer) burnt to the ground. Only two years earlier Raine & Horne Mossman/Port Douglas sold the pub at auction to the current owner.
History of the Royal Hotel Mossman
The Royal is a two storey, timber hotel with exposed stud framing constructed between 1931 and 1934. The first hotel on the site, also the Royal, was a single storey moved to the site by Fred Jensen in the 1890s. It burnt down in 1929. The new Royal had a large wooden verandah and external stairs. It was built of chamfer board and upstairs is red cedar, although some repairs have been made in fibro. A carbide plant made gas which was used before electric lighting came in 1938. During the Second World War units of the Australian Army camped at the rear of the hotel. A beer garden was added in 1972. The hotel closed in 2007.
