Marshal MacMahon Hotel, Wallabadah

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The Marshal MacMahon Hotel, Wallabadah 1878. Picture: Supplied.
Marshall McMahon Inn Hotel was known as the Wallabadah Hotel in 1924. This image shows the added verandah, and second dormer-window in the roof. Note the ladder, likely for allowing the lighting the compuslary lamp Picture: Noel Butlin Archives, Australian National University.
The Wallabadah Hotel, 1959. Picture: Noel Butlin Archives, Australian National University.
Marshall MacMahon Hotel, Wallabadah, NSW, 2012. Picture: Jan Smith, Flickr

Wallabadah is a town in the New England region of NSW. The town is located 55km south of Tamworth on the New England Highway and is about 15km from Quirindi. The heritage-listed Marshall MacMahon Hotel opened for business in March 1872.

For the early history of the hotel visit the Time Gents story: The Aussie pub named after a French president: The Cropper family’s two bush pubs

A Snake in Bed

On Sunday, a snake was found coiled up in a bed at the Wallabadah Hotel. A boarder got a surprise when retiring, and lost no time in killing the snake.

– National Advocate, Thursday, December 5, 1912

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