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Half Way House Hotel
150 Abattoir Road, now the corner of Miller and Bank Streets. Part of the estate of George Harris (1838-1897).
Abattoir Rd (between Glebe Island Bridge and Miller Street) and Gipps Crescent (between Miller and Jones Streets) were both renamed Bank Street in 1905. Part became Bowman Street in 1933. ‘Half Way Quarry’ or ‘Paradise’ was an old lease belonging to Charles Harris, reopened by Robert Saunders in the 1870s. Sydney’s abattoirs were on Glebe Island from 1860 until 1917.
Shirley Fitzgerald writes about Abattoir Road:
“This road’s connection with Glebe island Bridge explains why the 1877 Sands (Directory) included several butchers who would have walked this way to work, perhaps stopping off at the Half Way House Hotel near the iron works on their way home in the evenings.”
This was an early brewery, later popular with Fish Market workers. The pub was demolished in the 1980-1990s for the building of the Anzac Bridge.
