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Maylands Hotel
Guildford Road cnr Rowlands Street
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KFC is now on that NW corner. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Also known as Hoffman's Hotel.
The date written on the photo (click/tap) appears to be 21 December 1923. The licensee's name painted on the hotel itself is Beard. The initials may be Ch[arles] D or B.
Keith Cundale, MHPA:
Although it was called the Maylands Hotel it was also known as the Hoffman Hotel named after Morrie Hoffman who bought the hotel in 1922, against the advice of friends, for £130,000. He leased the hotel out three times from 1922 to 1939 before taking over the running of it himself. The hotel was renovated in the 1930s (see picture below). I’ll leave you to decide which façade you prefer!
References and Links
Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association flickr page.
My Maylands pages.
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 22 December, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/maylandshotel.html (it was last updated on 28 November, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.