Allen’s Ten Mile Hotel built well before 1908 (situated 10 miles from Jamieson) – photograph taken about 1920. Hotel was burnt in the 1939 fires – January 13th. Owned by Thomas Allen, who owned the Coaches and Knockwood Hotel. They used to grow their own vegetables and cut their own chaff. The hotel was lit by acetylene gas (carbide and water) and used to get calcium carbide in two quart containers (like 40 gallon drums) and had a large generator. This was the overnight stopping place for the coach from Mansfield. There were about one dozen local mines in the vicinity and very busy with miners. Old Mrs Allen used to keep a lot of caged birds on the verandah, and one could swear like a trooper.