Some pubs in Orange are covered in beer and brewery advertising, screaming their identity across the town.
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But others, including the Parkview Hotel on the edge of Robertson Park, have adopted an understated look.
A make-over in recent years has seen the pub lose all of its exterior brewery branding.
In fact a newcomer to town could confuse it for an accommodation complex with a downstairs bar.
But, it wasn’t always this way.
The Tooth’s Brewing company’s now-public records held by the Australian National University and the Noel Butlin Archives Centre contain old photos.
Those records, contained on yellow cards, updated by travelling brewery inspectors, show the pub has also had a change of names.
It was originally built in 1865 as the Miner’s Rest Hotel before becoming the Tattersalls Hotel, a name it would keep for 93 years.
It was in its Tattersalls days the cards record the pub’s steady trade but also its changing face.
The earliest photo, with a horse and cart on Summer Street and Sloane’s Tattersalls Hotel emblazoned across the front was taken in 1925.
That photo and another in 1930, are the only ones in the records that show the ornate upstairs verandah which has now been restored and is a feature of the current-day building.
By the end of the 1930s the verandah has been removed and the pub gained an austere appearance it would keep through many decades.
The 1925 inspectors report indicates the hotel had several shops as part of the building. Six shops are noted as part of the building in a later report in 1939.
“Brick, very large building, fair appearance, no tiles,” the inspector recorded.
In October 1930 and again in 1939 the inspectors recorded there were 11 hotels within a 400-metre radius of the Tattersalls Hotel.
The Sloane family was listed as the licensees until 1950 when the Coates family took over.
The last photo in the series, taken in 1970, is the only one with beer branding, promoting Resch’s, around the building.
In 1980 its name changed to the present Parkview.
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