Apple Tree, Station Road

The Apple Tree was built sometime after 1849 and around the time Old Lodge Iron Works (1852) and the Marshfield Ironworks (1863) were built. It is listed in a trade directory of 1866 as the Apple Tree, with John Bowen as proprietor.

The 1861 census mentions the Apple Tree on Station Road.

In 1872 there were eight inns on Station Road, including the Station Hotel, the Apple Tree Inn, the Forester’s Arms, the Railway Station Tavern (re-named the Miramar), Oddfellows’ Inn, the Melbourne Inn, the Mariners Inn and the Railway Hotel.

In later years the Apple Tree and Foresters combined to become one public house known as the Apple Tree.