According to Goulburn and District  Historical Society member Gordon Thompson this building stood directly opposite where the current Town Hall now stands in Auburn St. It was established in 1848. 

“Samuel Davis opened his watchmaker, jewellery shop next door to the Herald in May, 1851,” Mr Thompson said. 

“A notice in the Herald in May 1851 states that ‘Goulburn’s first public town clock was installed and maintained by Samuel Davis in his watchmaking establishment in substantial and up-to-date new premises next to the Herald Office.’ 

“I suspect that the clock may be the one shown in the photo on the outside of the Jeweller’s shop.” 

Goulburn has been well-served by newspapers, with the Goulburn Herald opening up in 1848.”

According to the late Stephen Tazewell’s Grand Goulburn, the first edition was published on July 1, 1848.

“The progenitor was a Mr Brent, who set up the prospectus and framework in 1847,” Tazewell writes.

The Goulburn Herald was produced by hand press until 1860. W.R Riley purchased it in 1857 and introduced the ‘steam printing’ of it in 1860. 

According to Tazewell, it was a tri-weekly paper for a time, later becoming a daily morning paper. The name also changed to The Southern Morning Herald at that point. 

The Goulburn Evening Post (more on this later) acquired The Southern Morning Herald in 1927. 

In 1864, the Herald absorbed the Goulburn Chronicle and later, the Gunning Leader. 

The Goulburn Evening Penny Post was established in 1870 with J.T Harris as proprietor. He sold it to G.A.Gray, a former journalist with the Goulburn Herald in the same year.

Gray sold the Post onto Thomas Daniel, also previously at the Herald, but for a brief period they produced it together. A verse boasted of this:

“Well printed as any/our paper today/And sold for a Penny/By Daniel and Gray.” 

Daniel continued publishing the Post and Gray moved on to acquire The Yass Tribune. The Post has been in the same building since 1870.