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LARKIN'S COFFEE PALACE Where ??
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:46 pm
by Mike
Another unknown to me. Great card, Coffee Palace W.A.Larkin. Chemist shop to the left. Looks like an Australian flag on the pole. Larkin's bait & Stables on sign to the right. The sign to right of the door way, hard to read but looks like "??ALS". No detail on the back of the card. Tasmanian ???
Any ideas?
Re: LARKIN'S COFFE PALACE Where ??
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:54 pm
by Ross Ewington
Mike, this photo may be from your "neck of the woods" .....there's quite a few Larkins along the NW Coast I think ..... found this...
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...there's quite a few buried along the NW Coast at least! 
Ross
Re: LARKIN'S COFFEE PALACE Where ??
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:00 pm
by Mike
Ross, I followed your Burnie trail and I think I have hit "pay dirt". I eventually looked in the book Campsite to City, A History of Burnie by Kerry Pink. I found that W.Larkin was one of the proprietors of the Temperance Hotel in Wilson Street Burnie. It was located next door to the present day Ivery's Pharmacy, right in the middle of the Burnie CBD. It seems that a Temperance Hotel and Coffee Palace are the the same thing, ie no alcohol !!
I also found in the same book (page 119) a picture of the Chemist shop next door to the Coffee Palace. See scan. Note the part chemist shop showing in the Coffee Palace scan. They match.
So I am sure that the Larkin photo is in Burnie. QED?
Re: LARKIN'S COFFEE PALACE Where ??
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:17 pm
by Ross Ewington
Well done Mike ... I agree, it's QED. It looks like my grave undertaking was useful!!
Re: LARKIN'S COFFEE PALACE Where ??
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:56 pm
by pamz
Hello Mike,
I am in Burnie today to research the Burnie Coffee House which was run by my ancestors William Larkin and his wife Alice. This is the first time I have seen a photo of the building and I wonder if the family are the people on the top verandah. Can you give me more detail of the message on the card and when it was sent please?
Regards,
Pamela Zopf
02 9632 6454
Re: LARKIN'S COFFEE PALACE Where ??
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:14 am
by Mike
Hello Pam
The postcard is not postally used but has a short message on the back,
"This is our house, Photo of."
I have had this card in my collection for many years and I cannot remember where I obtained it. It was in my box of "where is it?" and I only worked out the location last year with a push and a bit of help from Ross.
Hope this is of help to you.
Mike.