Royal Hotel, Bundaberg, Queensland

I thought this was an interesting cover. My little amount of research seems to indicate that the Hotel Royal is now Hotel "No-More". I hope that Mr. Douglass was able to find employment elsewhere.

A small period newspaper mention of the Royal Hotel:

This is what the city of Bundaberg is famous for- "Bundaberg Rum". Established in 1888 it is currently celebrating 125 years.!

I can email you my mailing address, if you feel so inclined to send me a Christmas gift ... The Dark Oak looks nice ...

Thanks for the photo.

I grew up near Pompton Lakes. It is a small residential town of 3 square miles and 12,000 people packed into it with a small downtown area and a great many single family houses on small plots of land. The address on this cover which says "Meeting Waters", Pompton Lakes, New Jersey is a bit redundant. Pompton is a word from the Lenni-Lenape Indians who used to live in this area until their land was taken many years ago, and it translates as "Meeting Waters". The Lenni-Lenape named this area of their land "Pompton" since it is where three small rivers meet - the Pequannock, the Wanaque and the Ramapo, which are all Lenni-Lenape Indian words as well. The work Lakes comes from a couple of small freshwater lakes there as well.

Partime, like almost everything that 'looks nice' there is a sinister side that normally doesn't reveal itself until the following day.!
Kimo, thanks for the wonderful information on the origin of the name.! Spent Xmas 2000 in the New Jersey area with some dear friends, my only 'white Xmas'.
Xmas wishes to you both.!

Hi Robster.

There are many place names in New Jersey that come from the Lenni-Lenape language. Their name, Lenni-Lenape translates as "original men" and their land included all of what is now New Jersey, southern New York, eastern Pennsylvania and most of Delaware. Their numbers were decimated by diseases of the early European settlers, by those same settlers who pushed them off of their land to take it for themselves, often killing them, then when they were weakened there were attacked by the neighboring Iroquois Confederation of indian tribes and further diminished, and finally in the 1860s the US government force marched them to reservations in the western US and many died on the way. I expect that there are a few similarities with what happened back then to many of the aboriginal people there in Oz as well.

Kimo. Great info. I found a few more covers, and she appears to have lived at 20 Hamburg Turnpike, if that gives you any better idea of the area. It is odd that most of her letters are addressed to "Meeting Waters" Pompton Lakes. Maybe there was a subdivision or community with that nickname? Anyway, up to 1939, all of the letters have this simple address, and appear to have gotten through to her.




Robster. I don't understand the implication here. I was only going to admire it up on a shelf, far away from the relatives ...

Have a great Holiday everyone.

There used to be a small farm called "Meeting Waters" in Pompton Lakes. It was subdivided and turned into small residential properties after the second world war. Perhaps she was living there?

Kimo. I think the odds are that the family owned that farm. I've heard that there was actually some money in the family, some time back. Maybe she was involved in the sale prior to subdivision. Anyway, thanks for the useful information.