Breakfast Creek, c1989. The current hotel was built by William McNaughton Galloway, who was mayor of Brisbane in 1889. This time was a growth period for the Breakfast Creek area with industries such as quarrying and timber-milling. A new Breakfast Creek Bridge opened on 24 May 1889 and a racecourse was constructed at Albion. The architects were Simkin and Ibler and the builders Woollam and Norman. The hotel opened for business on 17 May 1890. In February 1893, the Brisbane River flooded and the hotel was 7 to 8 feet underwater. The upper floors were used by many people as a refuge, accessed
Breakfast Creek, c1989. The current hotel was built by William McNaughton Galloway, who was mayor of Brisbane in 1889. This time was a growth period for the Breakfast Creek area with industries such as quarrying and timber-milling. A new Breakfast Creek Bridge opened on 24 May 1889 and a racecourse was constructed at Albion. The architects were Simkin and Ibler and the builders Woollam and Norman. The hotel opened for business on 17 May 1890. In February 1893, the Brisbane River flooded and the hotel was 7 to 8 feet underwater. The upper floors were used by many people as a refuge, accessed by climbing up the iron posts that supported the verandahs. On Saturday 12 January 1895, William McNaughton Galloway fell from a window on the second floor of the Breakfast Creek Hotel, a distance of 17 feet. He received immediate medical attention from a passing doctor and was taken to hospital, but he died about 40 minutes later. In the subsequent magisterial inquiry, it was revealed that Galloway had been drinking heavily over the previous 3 weeks. On the day of his death, he was again intoxicated and the barman, William Floyd, decided to lock Galloway in an upper room of the hotel, hoping Galloway would sleep off his intoxication. Galloway attempted to escape the room by climbing out the window. Having climbed out the window onto a ledge, he tried to jump to a nearby balcony. Although he caught the balcony railings with his hands, one hand gave way and he fell. Anne Galloway (née Waters), the widow of William Galloway, took over the license of the hotel in April 1895. However, as William Galloway died intestate with a mortgage over the hotel with the Queensland National Bank, the Curator of Intestate Estates became the owner of the property and leased the hotel to Mrs Galloway for six years from August 1895. In January 1898 the Brisbane River flooded again and the hotel was surrounded by water. In September 1900, the hotel was sold (subject to the lease to Mrs Galloway
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