The White Bay Hotel was built in 1860 on the corner of the then Crescent and Weston Streets in Rozelle

Rozelle, New South Wales

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, an inner-west suburb of Sydney

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, New South Wales

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, Australia

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. Serving the workers of the Glebe Island abattoirs and soap factories, it was relocated in 1915 to make way for the White Bay goods railway.

Rebuilt in brick on what is now Victoria Road

Victoria Road, Sydney

Victoria Road is a major road in Sydney, Australia.Victoria Road connects Parramatta with the Rozelle end of Anzac Bridge. Victoria Road passes through the Sydney suburbs of Rydalmere, Ermington, West Ryde, Ryde, Gladesville and Drummoyne and is currently one of the longest roads in Sydney.The road...

 and popular with the wharfies (longshoremen) of the White Bay Container Terminal until the transferral of its facilities to Port Botany, the hotel, which became increasingly squeezed by the widening of Victoria Road after the construction of the Anzac Bridge

ANZAC Bridge

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, ceased trading in 1992.

In June 2008, the owner of the hotel had lodged an application to redevelop the building.

On 5 September 2008, the hotel was destroyed by a deliberately lit fire and was demolished.

The New South Wales Government

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 purchased the site in June 2010 for A$

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2.5 million.

Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority recently cleared the White Bay Hotel site of building rubble.
White Bay Shared Path

See also

• White Bay, New South Wales
  White Bay, New South Wales
  White Bay is a bay on Sydney Harbour with a surrounding locality near the suburbs of Balmain and Rozelle in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.-History:...