The Tall Timbers Hotel is a family owned business.

We proudly support local sporting and community groups. If you are a local group who wants some support or just a place to meet and utilise our facilities give us a call.

We are currently in the process of renovating the Hotel to create a friendlier family and community orientated atmosphere. Come in and see the progress we have made so far.

In 1882 the Department of Public Instruction was notified by John Nicholas, a teacher, that the contemplated railway line through Ourimbah may interfere with the school grounds. Nicholas later sent a map showing the three routes under consideration. Also shown were the locations of the school, the shop marked to "Mr H Denney", and the "Wine Shop" marked "Mr E Wamsley" which stood on the same site as today's Tall Timbers Hotel. The “Wine Shop” as it was known back then went by the formal title the Traveller's Rest, which was constructed in 1878. At this time Mr Edward Wamsley is listed as licensee.

In 1890, John Arnold Beattie bought two blocks together, on the corner of the realigned highway and Station Street, upon which the Royal Exchange Hotel was erected.

Publicans' records for this period are minimal, and it has been proclaimed that the licence for the Royal Exchange was procured from the Traveller's Rest. Certainly the two co-existed for a while, but the Traveller's Rest is referred to as the "Wine Shop" or the "Wine Depot"; it was the Royal Exchange who had the beer. In 1894 Mr Alfred Wamsley had the licence for the Traveller's Rest.

Alfred Snaith Jaques bought a 7 acre block which included the Traveller's Rest in 1902, although he did not also obtain a full licence for the hotel. The sale of alcohol in some form continued despite the competition from the Royal Exchange, until the building was sold and unassembled in 1944. The timber was used to build a house elsewhere in Ourimbah and the beer licence was transferred to an establishment at The Entrance.

The “Wine Shop” (Travellers Rest) Jaques sold in 1921 to one Alfred Edwin Smith, who let a part of the ground floor to a baker, Gabriel Stanislaus O'Connor. In 1937 Smith sold to Thomas and Hilda Jones. The letting of the baker's shop continued and in 1939 John Thomas Hanley took over that part of the premises. The wooden building stood until all but the stone chimney was completely destroyed by fire in 1950.

A new building of very similar style and fashion was built to replace the Travellers Rest. It was the 1st of March 1951 when proprieter Thomas H Jones saw Cr Robert W.Brown Lee, President of Wyong Shire lay the commemorative plaque to declare the building open.