Annie Meyers

Annie Meyers (7 July 1873 – 25 January 1942) was the owner of the first guest house called 'Stuarts Guest Home', sometimes referred to as 'Mrs Meyers Guest House', in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Following their marriage the purchased a block of land on Todd Street, what is now the Todd Mall, and established a saddlery. This saddlery, known as "Charlie Meyer's Saddlery" was at the Southern end of the street and was a simple structure with whitewashed stone walls, a thatched roof and a verandah constructed of wooden packing cases. Meyers and Charlie lived a short distance away, on the Todd River and, by 1908, had three living children: Dorothy, Herman John (Jack) and Gwendoline (Gwen); they had lost an infant daughter Henrietta some years before.

The guest home included a large vegetable garden, with many fruit trees and a large poultry run and, with these in place, she soon gained a reputation for serving the "best food in town". She applied for a liquor license in 1929 but was declined; she was, however, granted a publicans license in 1930 and the foundations for a new building were prepared but did not eventuate. Meyers blamed this on the Great Depression and the failure of The Granites gold mine.

Meyers gave up the guest home in the late 1930s and then moved to Adelaide and, later, to Boulder (Western Australia) where she lived with her daughter Gwen. She died there on 25 January 1942.