Hi Diane Thank you for your response. My enquiry relates to my great grandfather Albert Edward Bird who was brought to Australian to run professionally in 1869 , promoted as Long Distance Champion of England. He competed at Newcastle and in December 1870 married Alice Walmsley who was a daughter of the initial proprietor of the City Arms Joseph Walmsley. I was thinking they may have met at the Hotel. That it was a rendezvous for sporting fraternity strengthens that view.regardsJohn > From: dianep@optusnet.com.au > To: aus-nsw-hunter-valley@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:57:12 +1000 > Subject: Re: [HV] Walmsley family / City Arms Hotel > > Hi John, > > Not sure ? if you have seen this snippet on the www, or if it helps ? > > The long-gone City Arms Hotel stood on the eastern corner of Hunter and > Market streets from 1870. > It was a popular rendezvous for the sporting fraternity and was rebuilt in > 1905 as the Central Hotel. > It later became the Hotel Hunter and is today unrecognisable in the Hunter > Street Mall. > Part of it is now occupied by the Sanity record store opposite Market > Square. > > taken from > http://www.hotelsnewcastle.com.au/hotels-newcastle-articles/2006/9/16/all-over-bar-the-shouting/ > [1996] > > > A partial phot (on Flickr) > http://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/3271386590/ > > > > Diane > Hills District > Nth West Sydney > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "John Bird" <johnkb13@hotmail.com> > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 9:53 AM > To: <aus-nsw-hunter-valley@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [HV] Walmsley family > > > Hi > > I would like to find out more about Joseph Walmsley and the City Arms > > Hotel Newcastle. He was the who was proprietor of the hotel in the 1870s. > > Any information would be greatly appreciated. > > regards > > John > > > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any > reply...... Thank you! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-NSW-HUNTER-VALLEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message