WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE HOTEL

4 North St

The strangely named White Conduit Hotel is ticked away in little North Street, near the west end of Waymouth Street. It has an informative blue plaque, but has not been a hotel sinc 1921.


The rather strangely named White Conduit House Hotel is tucked away in North Street, a little side street running between Currie Street and Waymouth Street. It was first licensed in 1839 with additions being added in 1881 and 1888. The hotel closed in 1921 due to population decline and the activities of the Temperance movement.

Margaret Kennedy (McDonald) was born about 1835 in Ireland. Between 1891 and 1900 she was Publican of the White Conduit Hotel.

The name appears to have come from an English establishment:

“The White Conduit House took its name from an ancient conduit which formerly existed in an adjacent field. It was at one time a very popular establishment, much patronised by Cockney ramblers, from whom no doubt it earned its familiar
appellation of the ‘Vite Condick’.”

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