Hotels in Fitzroy up to 1906

This is an undergraduate research essay.Deposited with permission of the author. © 1971 Nicola A. Piccolo.The essay begins with a general introduction to the liquor traffic of the early Melbourne community. It then focuses on Fitzroy where the relationship between the developing Fitzroy district and the geographical location of the hotels is discussed. Hotels and the Temperance groups always seem to run concurrently and a report on the role of these groups in Fitzroy and their efforts to limit the number of hotels in the area naturally follows. This Licensed Victuallers versus Teetotallers struggle led to strong Government action resulting in the setting up of the Licensing Reduction Board in 1906, whose work is the subject of the next section. To complete volume 1 all available facts about each hotel are chronologically tabulated - these include the names of Licensees from first issue to 1906, type of construction, size, auctions, changes of name etc. Volume 2 comprises a study of the architectural styles of the hotel buildings still in existence