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09/04/201609/04/2016Blogging

The Old Appin Inn

If you have an eye for history or architecture or hotels, and you’ve visited the town of Appin (near Campbelltown in Western Sydney), you will have probably noticed an old derelict building not far from the church. Though in a poor state of repair, the old Appin Inn is a lovely building which I had an opportunity to visit about five years ago when Appin celebrated its bi-centenary.

As I wrote at the time…

“I have a connection to the pub across the road” I told the woman who was looking after things at St Bede’s Catholic Church in Appin today.

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22/05/201109/04/2016Blogging

Appin Bi-Centenary

by James O'Brien3 Comments

“I have a connection to the pub across the road” I told the woman who was looking after things at St Bede’s Catholic Church in Appin today. “Two of my ancestors ran the pub back in the 1840s”, I told her, referring to William Rixon and Ann Hoare.

“There was a close connection between the church and the pub” she told me, pointing to the family, the Carolls who owned the pub and who ran it as a guest and boarding house, who were buried in the graveyard.… Read the rest “Appin Bi-Centenary”