Seen in the 1902 photograph is the newly opened Tramway Hotel just above the Taramakau bridge on Millerton Road. The hotel offered fourteen guest rooms, three lounges, a billiard room and a dining room with seating for thirty.
By 1982 (lower image) the old hotel had been closed for some time and within a further three years virtually nothing of the building remained, all of the recyclable materials having been taken by the community for improvements to their homes.
By 1982 (lower image) the old hotel had been closed for some time and within a further three years virtually nothing of the building remained, all of the recyclable materials having been taken by the community for improvements to their homes.
Thanks to Gerard Richards of Auckland for the four 1982 pics of the hotel, restored and blogged in fond remembrance of good times at Millerton in the '80s.
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2 comments:
I am lucky to be able to say that I lived at the Tramway Hotel for part of 1985. It had an amazing large lounge with a fireplace where we used to dance through the night to ska music on our stereo. The downstairs rooms were pretty spooky though...
There was a huge cast-iron coal range in the kitchen, with an oven on both sides of the fire box.
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