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This was one of up to 17 hotels that once stood along the length of Stanley Street, serving travellers and local residents and also the substantial local workforce that included railway and dockworkers. The Stanley Hotel was built in 1890, directly across from the Clarence Hotel at the busy Clarence Corner junction. It was renamed the Yorke in the 1900s and survived until after World War II, when it was demolished prior to the expansion of the Mater Hospital, which now owns this land.
Citations
Queensland Post Office Directory, 1891, p. 159. John McClurg, Historical Sketches of Brisbane, Brisbane: Royal Historical Society Queensland, 1975, p. 6.
Image Citations
Yorke Hotel, South Brisbane, ca. 1905. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Record number: 49352.
Map References
QSA. QSA Series 1748 Moreton District, County of Stanley Maps – A1 Series. 1 chain to the inch. Borough of South Brisbane (Ward No 1), Parish of South Brisbane, County of Stanley. ca 1 chain to the inch. Borough of South Brisbane, Ms.,. 620304