The rather strangely named White Conduit House Hotel is tucked away in North Street, a little side street running between Currie Street and Waymouth Street. It was first licensed in 1839 with additions being added in 1881 and 1888. The hotel closed in 1921 due to population decline and the activities of the Temperance movement.

Margaret Kennedy (McDonald) was born about 1835 in Ireland. Between 1891 and 1900 she was Publican of the White Conduit Hotel.

The name appears to have come from an English establishment, as indicated by the following quote:

The White Conduit House took its name from an ancient conduit which formerly existed in an adjacent field. It was at one time a very popular establishment, much patronised by Cockney ramblers, from whom no doubt it earned its familiar appellation of the ‘Vite Condick’.

 

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