Fry's Coaching

This is the site where Fry's Coaching operated. A nearby plaque reads: "From the eighteen 60s to the 1920s, this site was the base of Fry's Coaching Enterprise which served the Hunter Valley and New South Wales". Coaches carried passengers and mail often, whilst some were hired to vaudeville companies and travelling salesmen who made regular tours. The two buildings are all that remain of the former business. The brick rectangular building called the Hearse Shed - built in 1880 housed the town's hearse and the timber structure is a corn straddle built in 1910 was designed to store fodder in a dry vermin-free environment.