In 1885 the original corner block was owned by Mr J Burns. Mr J Savage owned the block next door.
14 June 1887 Withersfield Hotel stood on the site of then 153 Oak Street. Mr Patrick Feinn was Special Victualler License holder.
13 April 1887 Terminus Hotel stood on 111 Oak Street on land owned by Mr Tom Pyne. Mr. George Long was the Terminus’ Special Victualler License holder. Tom Pyne moved to Longreach, so Mr James Ah Foo became the owner of the Terminus Hotel.
17 August 1887 James Ah Foo changed the name of the Terminus Hotel to the Springsure Hotel. James (Jimmy) Ah Foo was the Special Victualler License holder.
The Withersfield Hotel was originally from a small railway siding west of Anakie, called ‘Withersfield’, and was erected in Barcaldine, where it stood for approximately 5 years.
May 1890 Mr. Paddy Finn dismantled his Withersfield Hotel at Barcaldine, put the lot on bullock wagons and took them to the new railway siding of Ilfracombe. There, the hotel was rebuilt and renamed the Wellshot Hotel after the pastoral station on which it stood.
The land on corner of Oak and Willow Streets became vacant. Jimmy Ah Foo moved the single-storey Springsure Hotel to the vacant allotment; but not right on the corner of Oak and Willow Streets – the butcher shop was on the corner.
1891 During the Shearers’ Strike, Jimmy Ah Foo in the Springsure Hotel supported the shearers. In recognition of his support, he was presented with a painting of the shearers’ strike camp site by the unionists.
July 1891 Jimmy left Barcaldine for Longreach to take up as licensee of the Federal Hotel. He donated the strike camp painting to the Barcaldine Union office. Mr. Patrick McCabe became the licensee of the Springsure Hotel.
3 November 1891 Charlesworth and Gribble owned the ‘Family and Carcass Butchers’ butcher shop on the corner. Sam Sing & Co’s bakery and grocery business was next door.
19 February 1892 Mr. John Gribble carried on the butchery business after the Gribble and Charlesworth partnership is dissolved.
June 1892 Mr. John Gribble’s business was taken over by Mr. Luke Byrne.
December 1892 Mr. Owen Devery took ownership of the wholesale and retail butchery business of Luke Byrne.
28 March 1894 Owen Devery was adjudicated insolvent on his own petition. Mr. J S Butler took on the license of the Springsure Hotel.
January 1903 Mr. David Stibbards was the owner of A H Heap’s wholesale and butchery business in Oak Street.
March 1905 Dave Stibbards moved his wholesale and butchery business to the corner of Ash and Willow streets.
April 1898 The licence was transferred to Mrs Margaret Devery (nee Burke).
March 1900 Mr. A H Heap owned the wholesale and retail butchery business.
14 July 1900 License was transferred from wife, Margaret Devery, to husband, Owen Devery.
January 1903 Mr. David Stibbards was the owner of A H Heap’s wholesale and butchery business in Oak Street.
March 1905 Dave Stibbards moved his wholesale and butchery business to the corner of Ash and Willow streets.
9 August 1909 Devery’s Springsure Hotel is destroyed along with other businesses in the fire in Oak Street (empty butcher shop on corner, Mr. P Ryan’s tailor shop and Owen Devery’s Springsure Hotel).
1909 Devery’s immediately began rebuilding. The new hotel would be situated on the corner of Oak and Willow Streets. Mr Devery assured the Licensing Board that he would be ready for business by the time of the next licensing court in April 1910.
30 April 1910 Application to change the name from Springsure Hotel to Devery’s Hotel was granted by the Licensing Court.
May 1910 Owen Devery’s large hotel, Devery’s Hotel, was finished on the corner of Oak and Willow Streets.
Owen Devery was the original owner but brothers Darby and Jack Devery were also involved in the hotel.
