Inglewood Inn a cosy place to enjoy Soup of the Day in winter, Adelaide Hills South Australia
*Inglewood – Fimmin Deacon, publican of Adelaide, purchased part section 5513, 6 km east of Modbury in June 1857 and erected an hotel thereon, calling it ‘Inglewood’.
Mr Deacon purchased the land from William Reeds of Houghton.
Rodney Cockburn relates that Mr Deacon: Offered the men on the job five gallons of beer if they could find a suitable name. That evening they had a talk in camp and one of them suggested Inglewood (after the Inglewood in Cumberland). The others approved and when the owner next arrived the men had the name painted in large letters on a board which was nailed to a scaffold pole opposite to the bar door.
The men got their beer and Inglewood got is name. [Ref: Manning’s Place Names of South Australia]
Inglewood Inn a cosy place to enjoy Soup of the Day in winter, Adelaide Hills South Australia
*Inglewood – Fimmin Deacon, publican of Adelaide, purchased part section 5513, 6 km east of Modbury in June 1857 and erected an hotel thereon, calling it ‘Inglewood’.
Mr Deacon purchased the land from William Reeds of Houghton.
Rodney Cockburn relates that Mr Deacon: Offered the men on the job five gallons of beer if they could find a suitable name. That evening they had a talk in camp and one of them suggested Inglewood (after the Inglewood in Cumberland). The others approved and when the owner next arrived the men had the name painted in large letters on a board which was nailed to a scaffold pole opposite to the bar door.
The men got their beer and Inglewood got is name. [Ref: Manning’s Place Names of South Australia]