Hotel in Thorndon / Kaiwharawhara, located where Thorndon Quay meets Tinakori Road. Opened 1891 with Benjamin Cohen as proprieter. Transferred to George W Prictor in 1892, and then to his wife Ellen Prictor in 1898 after the death of George in 1897. Lost its liquor licence in 1909 under the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Bill and resumed trading in 1911 due to changes in electoral boundaries.
Esplanade Hotel (Wellington, N.Z.)
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Manuscript
History - Newspaper cuttings (811)
Date: 1962-1969
From: Wellington Regional Planning Authority : Records
Reference: 75-156-434
Description: Topics include: Sale of `Taumaru', Lowry Bay; Wellington Club building; Mahanga Bay wharf, Miramar; Katherine Mansfield's home, 133 Tinakori Road, Thorndon; site of Wellington Hospital; whaling days at Kapiti and Mana (by W Carkeek); Lyall Bay; Willis Street; old fort at Ngauranga; Wellington No-Licence League; Wellington Town Board; Mitchelltown; Upper Hutt School; floating dock; Days Bay; Wellington rates; Paremata Barracks; plans for Civic Theatre; Karori; pa sites; James Coutts Crawford; Alexander Turnbull Library; Caledonian Hotel; T G McCarthy Hotel (Wakefield Hotel); Esplanade Hotel; Masonic & Family Hotel; Prowse family; Wellington waterfront; Hutt Road; pilot's house at 229 Marine Parade, Worser Bay; Bolton Street Cemetery; Old St Paul's; Pauatahanui pa sites; St Matthew's Church, Washington Ave, Brooklyn; Wellington Town Hall Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Old Wellington hotels and The Wets and the drys (manuscripts)
Date: [1970-1976]
From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers
Reference: 77-067-6/06
Description: Typescript copy of Lawlor's `Old Wellington hotels' and corrected script, `The Wets and the drys', reminiscences of the liquor laws and how they operated, which was taped 26 Mar 1973 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Esplanade Hotel, Thorndon Quay, Wellington
Date: [1892-1898]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/2-C-023239-F
Description: The Esplanade Hotel, Thorndon Quay, Wellington, with the name of the proprieter G W Prictor over the door, and the premises of the blacksmith Stephen Woods next door. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).