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No tram lines; QVB silll under construction; the date is more likely circa 1895 …

This one taken from the same spot on a quiet day.

The first electric tramway ran along Stanley Street, in South Brisbane on 16 June 1897.[1] Horse-drawn carriages were still being used in 1899. In 1900 local residents were agitating to have the Kelvin Grove tramway extended along Enoggera Road to the Newmarket Hotel in Newmarket. However, a new bridge over Enoggera Creek would be required.[5] Also, there were concerns that the close proximity of the proposed tramway would take revenue away from the railway line.[6] However, these concerns were resolved and the tramway extension to the Newmarket Hotel was opened on Monday 27 July 1903.[7] Up until the end of World War I, Brisbane's trams were the primary method used for traveling within the city. Four trams were constructed in 1897 and 1898 by the Brisbane Tramways Company. They were cross-bench cars with no center aisle. Two of the benches (those attached to the end bulkheads) were fixed and the other seven benches were tip-over. They could carry 45 seated passengers, plus standees. Two were withdrawn from service in 1938, the other two were probably withdrawn in 1943. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Brisbane#:~:text=These%204....

The original Royal George Hotel was built in 1912 by G.L. Bury, and was one of the first main hotel establishments on the Sunshine Coast. After a horrendous fire which hit Nambour Curry Street in 1924, the building was rebuilt. In the mid-1950s another blaze took on the second floor, and the whole structure was rebuilt in the style it is to be seen as today. Over the years, the RGH has been known in the region as the friendly pub, the Worker Man's Hotel (cane cutters, mill workers...). The Royal George Hotel always has been and still is an iconic landmark for the town of Nambour. The Royal George Hotel has been family owned and operated since the year 2000 by the Laing family. Known over the years and throughout the Sunshine Coast for their generosity, sponsoring many junior sporting teams and events, as well as senior sporting clubs, the Laing family's motto has never changed: "Buy Local, Support Local". Source: www.thergh.com.au/about#:~:text=The%20original%20Royal%20....

The making of a town produces many memories and Nambour's landmark Club Hotel was originally the site of the Residential Hotel, built in 1911 as a timber saloon that provided accommodation only. The hotel was re-named the Club Hotel in 1912 when a liquor license was granted. The hotel was remodeled in the 1920s and destroyed by fire on January 7, 1938, in a blaze that decimated half of the town. The present Club Hotel building was erected on the same site in December 1938. The building was architecturally designed with cement walls. For Currie St and the wider Nambour community, this building has stood as an important part of Near North Coast history in the heritage sugar town. It has been the gatekeeper to memories of the iconic cane train crossing the nearby main street where the tracks still remain today. Today, this lovely old pub building houses an exceptional surfboard collection with an impressive array of rare and iconic boards lining the walls. This collection includes the large timber planks of the early 1900s as well as the more modern fiberglass boards of the 1960s and current times. In this collection there is a replica of the surfboard used by Duke Kahanamoku, a true Hawaiian hero and one of the world's greatest surfing watermen, when he first visited Australia and gave a surfing exhibition at Sydney`s Freshwater Beach on December 23, 1914. This is widely regarded as the most significant day in the development of surfing in Australia. The building and surfboard collection opened with a completed renovation of the floor that had previously been vacant for more than 10 years. Source: www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/sunshine-coast/lan...