Commercial Hotel is Port Adelaide’s oldest licensed pub

Commercial Hotel, Port Adelaide. Picture: Langfords Hotel Brokers
Commercial Hotel, Port Adelaide, South Australia, C1879. Picture: State Library of South Australia.

The Commercial Hotel is the oldest surviving licensed pub in Port Adelaide, South Australia. The Commercial Inn was established in 1841, but gutted by fire in 1857. Rebuilt as the Commercial Hotel in 1869, the pub continues to trade at the south-east corner of Commercial Road and Divett Street, Port Adelaide (20121).

Hotel collects for Largs Bay Orphanage

commercial hotel Port Adelaide SA 1948
SMALL CHANGE thrown into two artillery shells on a cupboard behind the bar at Commercial Hotel, Port Adelaide, was counted yesterday by Mr. Ron Threadgold and Mrs. J. Cann, the licensee’s wife. It came to £ 23/0/5½, which was made up to £24/12/- by the counters. The money will go to Largs Bay Orphanage – Adelaide News, December 16, 1948

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