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Continental Hotel
Victoria Avenue, Claremont
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Built by Ansell Freecorn in 1896, Hotel Continental was the second hotel erected in Claremont. It offered a lovely holiday to families from the country and a place for yachtsmen to walk up from the jetty and have a refreshing drink in its beer garden. Hotel Continental operated until it was demolished around 1970. Today, a block of units called Continental Court stands on its 25 Victoria Avenue site.
The hotel in 1958
References and Links
First image: Freshwater Bay Museum collection.
Second image courtesy SLWA ref#239493PD, 1958, apparently one of a set of six photos taken on the same day .
Thanks to David Slee for pointing out my omission of this magnificent place. (The photographic work of his father, Frank Slee, is represented in the State Library of WA in the Frank Slee Collection.)
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 2 February, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/continental.html (it was last updated on 25 November, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.