On Monday March 23, 2009 I had written about the incorrect spelling on the signage on Holyoake Bridge that crosses the Cudgegong River at the end of Church Street in Mudgee. One of the first visitors that morning was Harold Barton who was able to fill me in with some information I had been seeking.
He told me: The correct spelling is Holyoake. I had got it right. As I had written the bridge was named after Lyttleton Holyoake Bayley, the NSW Attorney-General and the MP for Mudgee in the Legislative Assembly.
In years past, at one stage, the Barton family had lived in a house immediately opposite the junction of Cassilis Road and the turnoff to Lue Road. The land in front of the house was the site of the Holly Oak Inn, later renamed the North Shore Hotel.
The Holly Oak Inn (or North Shore Hotel) was demolished and the cellar filled in with soil. During a flood, whilst a major tennis tournament was in progress, the tennis court built there had sunk. End of match!
Norman McVicker's Budgee Budgee site 
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