Patrick Feinn (Finn) was the licensee of the Withersfield Hotel when it arrived in Barcaldine in 1886. Feinn moved the building, for which he already had a liquor licence, to Barcaldine from The Alice in 1886. The licence in Barcaldine was for the Withersfield Hotel. It was situated on the block next to the corner of Beech and Oak streets [next to where the current repurposed Globe building stands]. It was moved to Ilfracombe in 1890 and became the Wellshot Hotel, still operating as an hotel today.
After the site became vacant, Long’s hotel, the Terminus Hotel, was moved there (from further up in the same block in Oak Street) by James Ah Foo. Licensee Ah Foo renamed it the Springsure Hotel.
When it burned down in 1909, the then owner Owen Devery rebuilt on the corner, naming the new premises Devery’s Hotel. It later became the Globe Hotel.
