THE HISTORY
1821 – 1832 MARTIN TIMMS AND MARY FROST
Martin Tims and Mary Frost were reluctant residents of Hobart when they arrived in 1815, after many years of living and working on Norfolk Island. Tims arrived with the promise of the job of Provost Marshal and a pocket full of money which was his entitlement, resembling an early form of superannuation. He used his funds to lease and then purchase the Liverpool Street building. They did not undertake any construction works, renovations or extensions to the building through their time of occupation.
Tims and Frost did not have a good time in Hobart. The events surrounding Tims’ dismissal from the role as Provost Marshal, when he had been drinking, do not represent the collective 150 years of Tims’ and Frost’s lives.
After Tims and Frost sold the building to Bent and Brown in 1832, it provided a pension on which they could live. Living to the grand age of 85 years, Tims left his few possessions to a friend, leaving no known family.
The window in the basement offered clear views across the rivulet to the buildings beyond, including St David’s cathedral, the new bond store and Government House on Macquarie Street.
