tarboat's photos with the keyword: hotel

The Market Hotel on Station street is now a Comfort Inn. It is one of the oldest purpose built Victorian hotels in Birmingham, dating back to 1883. The building incorporates a lot of terracotta decoration of the style popular in the 1880s.

The Patten Arms is situated across the road from Warrington Bank Quay Station and is named after local industrialist Thomas Patten who was instrumental in the development of copper smelting in the town. The use of cream brick is unusual in an area where red brick predominates The manufacturer of the bricks was probably one of those in the St Helens area. The resulting building is certainly eye-catching and impressive.

Advertising on water towers was normal on the South Australian Railways. This one is at Mingary west of Broken Hill. This was a crossing and watering point on the narrow gauge line which was finally converted to standard gauge in 1970.

The Palisade Hotel at Millers Point in Sydney was designed by Henry D. opened in 1912, replacing an earlier hotel of the same name. The name came from the palisade fence built between Munn Street and Bettington Street. It overlooks the wharves in Walsh Bay and was once popular with the dock workers in the area. The business closed for renovations some years ago and was still boarded and empty when I visited in 2012.

The water tank at Cockurn is one of the most obvious remains of the extensive railway yard that once existed here when the narrow gauge trains ran from Broken Hill. The Coburn Hotel in the background continues to provide room and board for travellers, but they now have to arrive by road as the standard gauge trains on the nearby new line don't stop here.

With the development of Trafford Park as an industrial estate there was a need for housing and a hotel. The hotel was completed in 1902 and lasted until 2008 by which time it was somewhat isolated and clearly far too big for what custom remained. It now stands empty and water damaged and has been occupied by squatters at some point.

Redevelopment of the Middlewood area of Salford has seen the renewal and restoration of the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal through the site. Looking towards the Irwell and with the new Hilton Hotel in the background, the old lock No.3 can be seen under restoration. This whole area had been filled in many years ago.