Royal Mail Hotel
6-20 Jerilderie Street, Jerilderie.
At approximately 11am on Monday 10 February 1879 Ned Kelly and Joe Byrne - dressed in police uniforms and accompanied by Trooper Harry Richards - entered the front bar which at that time was located in the still extant single-storey section of the hotel, as well as the travellers' accommodation at the rear. Ned informed the hotel licensee Charles Cox that he required a room for a few hours to put the people in as they came along "for I have come here to stick up the Bank today."
Dan Kelly and Steve Hart had entered the rear yard of the hotel premises on horseback and on dismounting they proceeded to round up customers and employees, herding them into the hotel parlour.
The Bank of NSW occupied part of the hotel premises, demolished in 1928 and gradually replaced by the two-storey section of the hotel. Ned and Joe Byrne entered the Bank from the common verandah at the rear of the premises and confiscated £691 from the Teller's cash till, and later a further £1450 from the safe, on the arrival of the Bank Manager. Later still Ned instructed the hotel's groomsman Herbert Tiffen to burn various bank documents, records of mortgages and the like.
Call in and enjoy the hospitality of the hotel's "mine hosts" and browse over the collection of memorabilia and photographs depicting the hotel's history and its involvement in the raid on Jerilderie by Ned Kelly and his gang.
History 
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