Antwerp Hotel

The Antwerp Hotel was a hotel in Redan, Victoria, <1869-1873>.

Site
The hotel was on the south west corner of Winter Street and Pleasant Street. This area is now part of the Pleasant Street reserve.

History
The site of the hotel was close to the Redan bluestone quarries which operated near the corner of Pleasant Street and La Trobe Street. These have been filled in, and are now sports grounds used by the soccer clubs. In the days when the quarries were operating they were dangerous places as this report from June 1873 shows: "'...a man named Owen Cahill left the house of a relative named Cornelius Cahill, on Thursday night, in order to go to his house at the Swamp. To do this, he had to reach Pleasant-street, near the Antwerp Hotel. Yesterday morning he was found in a quarry n the vicinity, quite dead. Deceased had walked unsuspectingly to his death, as evidenced by the marks of his feet at the brink of the precipitous perpendicular wall of stone forming the side of the quarry. On falling he had clutched at the edge of the bank, the marks of his fingers being apparent on the soil. His feet also touched the stone, and left marks half-way down, and a crushed thistle and his hat and pipe showed the place of his fall. From where he had fallen to, he had walked some fifty yards, and sat down on a stone in an angle formed at the side of the quarry, and here he was found dead— sitting with his right hand holding his arm, which, upon examination, was shown to be broken and bloody. Probably it will be found that he received his death injury by falling on his head. The spot is a quarry reserve upon which no less than four streets open...'"

Inquests

 * 30 May 1873 - on Owen Cahill, a miner who fell into the Redan quarries at night, breaking his neck.

Politics

 * August 1871, Daniel Brophy addressed ratepayers at the hotel.

The People

 * In April 1869 the publican was P. Krygger.
 * In December 1873 the license was granted to Peter Krygger.