Westport 1869

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DescriptionWestport 1869

Courtesy the Hocken collection, F W Paul's collectionDate of Photo1869Map^[1]

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Location (city or town)WestportEventEarly Westport

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Date Created30th June 2019CommentsTheresa Gibson This maybe Yates’ Hotel that was set adrift on the morning of the disaster 7 February 1872 when the river rose so rapidly .....Yates apparently remarked, “Doesn’t she ride the waves gracefully !”
Yesterdays in Golden Buller by Ella Matthews.

Pete Lusk Ive never seen this pic before - its a good one. If someone can read the name on the building it'd help know where it is on the river.

Laura Mills Detlaff Boatman's Arms Hotel???

Pete Lusk THe book Theresa notes above by Ella Matthews has a lot of early photos. I'll see if there's a Boatmans Arms Hotel in it. Certainly there were boatmen on the Buller.

Laura Mills Detlaff Pete Lusk or anything with a few words ... esp Arm

Pete Lusk From what Ive read, the main part of Westport was on a sand dune on an extension of present day Gladstone St. But there was also a wharf up river.

Pete Muir The building on the corner looks like a bank

Pat Cooper Earliest photo I have seen of down town Westport.

Jo-Anne Sunbeam Nelson Ale House ?.. as per Page 3 Advertisements Column 1, WESTPORT TIMES, VOLUME IV, ISSUE 723, 13 OCTOBER 1870

Peter McKenzie I think it's the Prince of Wales hotel at end of Gladstone st when Bullet river was near street.

Richard Byrne The hotel got washed a way with the lights down the river and over the bar

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Westport 1869

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