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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The 1870’s & 1880’s were a boom time in Mallala with many of the main buildings such as Mallala Hotel, Post Office, Institute, Primary School, Flour Mill & the Methodist, Catholic & Church of England Churches all being built in that period.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">In the midst of this boom, in 1877, an imposing two-storey hotel was built by Johannes Schirmer at <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">7 Adelaide Road</st1:address></st1:street>, known as the Schirmers Family Hotel. It was an imposing building in Mallala at that time, - being dwarfed only by the new Flour Mill built in the following year.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">It is interesting to note that at this time, Johannes was the licensee of the Mallala Hotel – just across the paddock -somewhat a conflict of interest!</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">He relinquished his licence on the Mallala Hotel on 8<sup>th</sup>. June 1879 & commenced in the new hotel on 8<sup>th</sup>. December 1879. He transferred the licence to William Nicholls on 22<sup>nd</sup>. March 1881 who renamed it the Family Hotel, & Johannes went back to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Adelaide</st1:city></st1:place> where he had had a long history in the hotel business.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">William Nicholls relinquished his licence on 21<sup>st</sup>. March 1882 & below is a list of the following licensees.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">21-03-1882<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>George.C. Lowson</font>
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| − | <font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">22-08-1883<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thomas Henry South<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">29-12-1886<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>William Rowan</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">8-02-1887<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Charles Jesse Garrood</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">township</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Mallala</st1:placename></st1:place> apparently could not support two hotels, for on 10<sup>th</sup>. March 1887 it was de-licensed & sold as a private residence, & it would appear that it was then named Cleveland House.</font>
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| − | <font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Records of occupants from that point in time are unknown until it was purchased by Reverend T. Weatherill some time before 1921. He was a Methodist Preacher as well as a Doctor & the room at the northern side entrance was his Surgery. His son Arthur –[known as “Marker’] was an agent for East Bros.</font></font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Sydney Dean Roberts bought <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:city></st1:place> house from Rev. Weatherill in 1921 for ₤1500 on a walk in- walk out basis. At this time the cellars were closed up & the top floor removed except for one upstairs bathroom which was retained within the roof & continued to be used. The wrought iron railing from the upper floor balcony became the front fence at “Marker” Weatherill’s house on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Balaklava Road</st1:address></st1:street>, adjacent to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Methodist</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></st1:place>.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">From 1921 to 1924 Sydney Robert’s wife Ellen operated Cleveland House as a boarding house, while <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sydney</st1:city></st1:place> worked as a labourer lumping bags of wheat, or as a contractor with horses & scoops building the Mallala – Long Plains railway line. Their youngest daughter Viola was born at Cleveland House in February 1923 & her aged alcoholic uncle, Richard Loveday Jnr. was allowed to live in a stone outbuilding.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Cleveland House was sold to E.M.Richards – probably about 1930 & for most of the 1930’s the front rooms on the northern corner of the building were used as a drapers shop, & the sign at the front read “E.M. Richards Draper & Clothier”</font>
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| − | <o:p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></o:p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><o:p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></o:p><o:p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></o:p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">In 1939 Mr. A.E [Bert] Pym, a local contracting carpenter, heard that Mort. Richards was off to the war & Cleveland House was for sale for ₤150. He travelled to <st1:place w:st="on">Balaklava</st1:place> to see the selling agent to be told the price was actually ₤250<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>but saw it as a bargain, & bought it on the spot. Mort. Richards called at Cleveland House shortly after on his way to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Adelaide</st1:place></st1:city>, dressed in his army uniform, to join his unit. He offered Bert Pym twice the amount he had paid, but Bert was not interested – he had already started work on modifying the building</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Because the house in its present format was too big for him & also the front wall being badly affected by salt damp, Bert Pym demolished two of the front rooms & established a new façade to the building on the first line of the inside walls on the northern end; except for the southern front room. He realigned that wall by shifting it six feet inwards & erected the pillars of the veranda on that alignment. He then removed the remaining section of the upper floor & built a very high gabled roof in its place. The exposed cellars were filled with rubble from the demolished walls.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">During this time he sold a block of land on the northern side for ₤10 to Bennett & Fisher for their agency, & in the mid-fifties he sold the block on the southern side to Archie Griffiths, & this is where Fay & Malcolm Dunstan currently live.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">During the construction of the RAAF base at Mallala, the large yard area on the south side was used to store construction timbers for the base & a small saw mill was set up to cut the timber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He converted Cleveland House into four flats initially, living in the largest & renting the others to personnel from the Mallala RAAF base.</font>
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| − | <font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Bert’s son Neville remembers the property in its original layout in the 1940’s. when the house came out to the footpath. There was a stone building also aligned to the footpath on the south side, consisting of three stables, coach shed & tack room. At the rear of the backyard there was a very deep, brick-lined well with a small stone building adjacent to house the pump & there was a large underground tank by the house.</font></font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The garden area on the northern side was divided into three areas – at the front were roses, shrubs & lawn, the centre section was vegetables & at the rear were rows of citrus & fruit trees with almond trees along the eastern boundary.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Bert Pym later took over the whole house for his family & in 1954 he set up a regional pest control business from the property, & after his retirement it remained an appointment agency for the firm.</font>
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| − | <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Cleveland House remained in the Pym family until 1991, when after the death of both Bert & his wife Glad, it was sold on 12<sup>th</sup>. December 1991 & has been occupied since then as a private residence.</font>
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