The Hero of Waterloo Hotel
Convict-built sandstone hotel from eighteen forty-three with cellar tunnels and a resident ghost legend.
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This guide to Sydney's Hero of Waterloo Hotel opens with an unexplained nightly mystery: chairs rearranged in an empty upstairs room. It traces the story back to publican Thomas Kirkman, a transported convict, and to his wife Anne, who died falling down the hotel's stairs in 1849. Along the way it covers the sandstone building's convict-era construction and a persistent legend about a smuggling tunnel to the wharf below. Listen for the piano in the bar as you pass the staircase where Anne fell.
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