QUEENS HEAD INN (DELICENSED) AT WEST TOODYAY
Scene of three buildings at West Toodyay in black and white; garden, vines and fruit trees in foreground.
Man with white beard (James Everett) in foreground, and two men in the vines.
Three other buildings (John Herbert's cottage) in left middle distance, with other buildings behind.
Hill in background.
Timber fence to road, and around the cleared paddock behind the houses.
Small building at the back right hand side.
James Everett opened the Queens Head Hotel for business in 1855.
It traded as a licensed venue until 1861, and then afterwards as a general store.
During the 1860s, Everett built a small brick cottage in Fitzgerald Terrace to the rear of the Queens Head Hotel.
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On back in pencil: "Cross reference in "Old Toodyay & Newcastle"; "Large No. 3".
James Everett arrived as a convict onboard the Pyrenees on 28 June 1851. His ticket-of-leave was granted on disembarking. For a while he earned his living as a bootmaker. In 1854 he applied for a Publican's licence to operate the Queen's Head initially set up on Lot R3 in 'old' Toodyay (now known as West Toodyay) . An extensive variety of building materials, choice goods and footwear were also on offer. The inn closed in 1861 when he was refused the renewal of his Publican's License due to the transfer of the Police Station to the new township of Newcastle. The store, however, continued to operate and in 1866 was robbed by Moondyne Joe. Deciding to return to England, Everett sold all his properties to Thomas Donegan in 1886.
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