Gunning & District Historical Society

Butcher Shop on the Corner of Warrataw & Saxby Streets By Kim Lees The centre for the business end of Gunning is now Yass Street, but this was not always the case. Up until the 1960s there were numerous shops and businesses at the railway end of Warrataw (previously Waratah) Street. With the introduction of the railway line in the 1870s the top end of Warrataw Street became an important part of town. Frankfield House (known to us as 'the boarding house') which had been there for many years was originally a staging post for Cobb & Co. coaches and a hotel until the 1920s when it was closed. It later became a guest house and operated that way for many years. It has had a number of owners over the years, including T D Roche, Mrs Hookway, the Edwards family, Herb Pollard (who ran the Dalton mail run whilst his wife ran the guest house), Jack & Stella Range, ‘Alley’ Morgan (who also ran a taxi service in Gunning) and my family from 1963 until 1972 when it was pri...

Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Gunning. Photo via CBC Officers Club Inc website GUNNING.  (From our Correspondent.) On Friday afternoon about twenty-five gentlemen met at the new premises of the Commercial Banking Company, invited by the manager, Mr. W. T. Busby. The gentlemen made a start to inspect the building, first viewing it from Yass-street, from where it presents a pleasing aspect, the private residence having a verandah running the full length of the building facing both Yass and Waratah streets. The whole is enclosed by a neat batten fence. On entering the building we first enter the hall, which is wide and lofty, being thirteen feet in height, as are also all the rooms. Six rooms in the private residence are gone through and are all found fitted with grates for coal-the three front ones fitted with handsome marble mantle-pieces. At the rear we find a kitchen fitted with a splendid cooking range, a pantry, two servants' rooms, a bath-room fitted...

Waratah St (now Warataw St) Gunning, NSW, circa early 1900s (Trove - Public Domain) This photograph dating from the early 1900s depicts Waratah Street (now Warataw Street) in historic Gunning. The former Frankfield Hotel and some of the buildings in the photograph are still standing. The photograph is from Trove , the National Library of Australia 's historical database. Photo by Mattinbgn CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons To the left is a more recent photograph of the Frankfield Hotel, now a private residence.