“QUONDONG HOTEL, 33 miles from anywhere. Half-way house on the Menindee to Broken Hill coach line.”
– The Sydney Mail, Wednesday, October 26, 1910.
By MICK ROBERTS ©
ALL that remains in the arid outback surrounds of where the Quondong Hotel traded is its rubble, and a resilient lone peppercorn tree, planted by Rosetta Sugars, the wife of the first publican, William Sugars.
The tree is a reminder of a once popular and essential wayside pub that traded for just over a century, shutting its doors in 2000, before it burnt to the ground the following year.
The Quondong Hotel, a single storey timber and corrugated iron structure, was located 50km south east of Broken Hill on the Menindee Road, on the banks of the mostly dry Stephens Creek.
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My great Grand Mother was Mary Denison Licensee from 1912 until 1917. He son Eric Denison 19 Coach Driver for Morrison & Sons died due to injuries from a fight with Daniel Minahan Licensee of the Cobham Lake Hotel near Tibooburra in 1913. Two of her sons went to WWI Percy Denison came home to train horses in WA & died it 1988. Frank Arthur Denison died in France & his body was never recovered. Mary died in South Australia in 1935.
Hi Bernice. Thanks for the contribution. Do you have a picture of your great grandmother, Mary Denison to include in the story?
Hi Mick, would this be where the Big Ant sculpture by Pro Hart was in the 1980s? And was it called the Stephens Creek Hotel?
No, Judith… That was a different pub….
Stopped in there for a beer in 1999 on the way to Menindee to do some work for the police.
What an iconic classic outback pub it was.
Colin