Falkirk Hotel
c. 1899-1902 Falkirk Avenue Maylands
Around 1899-1902, the Falkirk Tavern was on Falkirk Avenue Maylands, apparently across Caledonian Avenue from the Mephan Ferguson Pipe Works factory, presumably serving as a watering-hole for the workers there.
In this 1899 photograph, colourised by John McLennan of the MPHS, the Tavern is the long building on the left-hand side of Caledonian Road in the middle of the photo, opposite the factory buildings on the right. According to Cr Elli Petersen-Pik, from whose website the image is taken, the crossing road in the foreground is Guildford Road. However, Falkirk Avenue is (now) parallel to Caledonian Avenue on the south side of Guildford Road.
References and Links
Website of Cr Elli Petersen-Pik.
Sage E. F., Falkirk tavern - entry in the PO Dir for 1901
Falkirk Tavern, Stanfield - entry in the PO Dir for 1902
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 30 January, 2023 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/falkirk.html (it was last updated on 28 November, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.