In a small town like Bridgetown, it does not pay to criticise to the local Council if you run a local business.
They will boycott your business and they might even try to make it disappear...
What happened the big two-storey building on the corner of Hampton Street and Steere Street, right opposite the Shire offices??
I am a part-owner of The Freemasons Hotel which has been offering accommodation, beverages and food in Bridgetown for more than a century, but it has somehow been airbrushed out of existence if you check this panel on display at the Council's Tourist Information Bay north of town.
There is a list of accommodation providers...
Even the smallest chalet and B&B operators get listed and shown on the map, but not the hotel with 22 rooms on the main corner of town!
The information lists every other licensed premises in town, restaurant and cafe, but not the one right opposite the Council offices which they walk past (but never into) every day.
There is a big sign on the building which says 'Hotel' and a sign on the wall which says 'Restaurant' so even if they don't dare to darken the doorways, there is no excuse for not knowing what goes on inside.
I know how CEO Tim Clynch will respond if I ask him about this. "It was an oversight," he will say.
I think its vindictive and petty.
Written, Authorised and Published by Michael Southwell, 179 Blackwood Park Road, Hester Brook WA
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