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Marquis of Lorne Hotel, corner of Hampden and Bealey Streets, Hokitika.ca.1908.
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DescriptionMarquis of Lorne Hotel, corner of Hampden and Bealey Streets, Hokitika, with the proprietor identified in the photo as M.J. Bergstrom.
Papers Past have a Mrs Bergstrom posting an advert notifying that she was taking over the long established hotel on 17 July 1908, so we might assume this photo dates just after 1908.
With no longstanding connection with Hokitika, just why this photo is in my great aunt's collection is unclear, but her father, John McGregor worked the gold diggings at Kanieri between about 1865 through to 1872, so maybe he stayed at this hostelry prior to Mrs Bergstrom's time.
Date of Photoca.1908Map[1] External LinkPapers PastContributorKeith Funnell
Papers Past have a Mrs Bergstrom posting an advert notifying that she was taking over the long established hotel on 17 July 1908, so we might assume this photo dates just after 1908.
With no longstanding connection with Hokitika, just why this photo is in my great aunt's collection is unclear, but her father, John McGregor worked the gold diggings at Kanieri between about 1865 through to 1872, so maybe he stayed at this hostelry prior to Mrs Bergstrom's time.
Date of Photoca.1908Map[1] External LinkPapers PastContributorKeith Funnell
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Location (city or town)HokitikaOrganisation (eg business)Marquis of Lorne HotelEventMarquis of Lorne Hotel, corner of Hampden and Bealey Streets, Hokitika.ca.1908.
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Date Created23rd August 2020CommentsPaulAnthony Teens Great shelter from rain on way home from school
Noel Keenan PaulAnthony Teens was this on the plot next to Percys?
Bev Kelly Diagonally across from Percy Pie!!
When was it demolished. I don’t remember it at all
Margaret Reece Oh how i would love to know the names of those standing outside? Maybe one could have been my great grandfather.
Pam Finch I have vague memories of this building,I would have been little when it was demolished.
PaulAnthony Teens Think it was one of the pubs that the hotel commission knocked on the head in the mid/late fifty’s. Norm Randle had something to do with it!!
Marilyn Paterson PaulAnthony Teens if it was late fifties/ early sixties, I could remember it, but it was not open if I do.
Marilyn Paterson That’s a very old photo, I feel like I remember it being there,there was a seat near the corner, if I remember correctly.
Glenn Johnston It was pulled down in the early 1960's. There is a good interior photo of the pub on this site showing the Randall's and others.
Glenn Johnston What is now the formed Hampden Street had the western end of the Hau Hau tramway and track to the Blue Spur gold diggings along it. (it went to where Stations Inn now is. This was once the tramway terminus site). The tram & track had a few buildings spring up along side it in the later part of the 1860's & early 1870's particularly at the beach end of Hampden Street. At least three pubs and one Aerated Water factory were once in Hampden Street. Besides the Marquis of Lorne hotel there was the George Bowen owned by Stapleton and the Sir Henry Barkly hotel owned by Richard Strangman. The Aerated Water factory was Dooley and Co's.
Christopher Bennett I remember my father telling me his Marquis of Lorne story. This must have happened in the 1930’s when he was a young carpenter’s apprentice. One evening, well after the mandated 6pm closing time, he and a friend were walking past the pub and noise from inside indicated it was business as usual so they thought they would give the patrons a bit of a shakeup. They found a sack and put a couple of bricks in it and then with a 1, 2, 3 heave, tossed it on to the roof and took off, hoping the noise would put the fear of the lord into the drinkers! Unfortunately, the roof was not in that great a condition and the sack went through the iron and continued downward through the plaster ceiling and into the bar. The patrons emptied into the street in search of the culprits. Years later he owned up to an older member of the building trade that it was him. The old fellow said that they would have killed him twice that night – once for upsetting the evening and the second for the layer of plaster dust that had settled on everyone’s beer when they returned to the bar having not caught the culprits.
Shirley Ryan Yes I remember the pub and the seat Marilyn
Marilyn Paterson Shirley Ryan I’m sure I do too, I was up that way a lot.
Therese McAra You would know.
Keith Funnell Therese McAra I wish I knew my this photo was in the McGregor family photos. I bet there are some stories to be told
Glenn Johnston In addition to the three Hampden Street pubs already named there was also the Globe Hotel owned by Patrick McGuire and it was at this hotel in 1868 on the Hau Hau Tramway that there was a meeting urging Council to metal the tramway as far as Sale street and turn it in to a proper street. The Globe Hotel must have been in the Hall St - Brittan St part of Hampden St. One other hotel called the Hampden Street Hotel gets a couple of newspaper mentions, once in a license application by Robert McNee. (I don't know whereabout this hotel was)
Bev Kelly Glenn I love your stories.... you’re a ball of knowledge!!
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Marilyn Paterson What a fantastic light! I wonder what happened to it?
Glenn Johnston The Hoki museum used to have/has a pub entrance street light. Forget which pub it was from.
Ken Reece My brother and myself would walk past it on our way to kindergarten and would look into the dimly lit bar that carried the distinct and remembered smell of stale beer and old cigarette smoke.....and on our way home the ol fellows would be sitting outside with their beers and would give us a general wack across the backside to hurry us along......the kindergarten was located in the old tennis court pavilion that was located where the Alan Bryant resthome is today
O how time Flys !
Noel Keenan PaulAnthony Teens was this on the plot next to Percys?
Bev Kelly Diagonally across from Percy Pie!!
When was it demolished. I don’t remember it at all
Margaret Reece Oh how i would love to know the names of those standing outside? Maybe one could have been my great grandfather.
Pam Finch I have vague memories of this building,I would have been little when it was demolished.
PaulAnthony Teens Think it was one of the pubs that the hotel commission knocked on the head in the mid/late fifty’s. Norm Randle had something to do with it!!
Marilyn Paterson PaulAnthony Teens if it was late fifties/ early sixties, I could remember it, but it was not open if I do.
Marilyn Paterson That’s a very old photo, I feel like I remember it being there,there was a seat near the corner, if I remember correctly.
Glenn Johnston It was pulled down in the early 1960's. There is a good interior photo of the pub on this site showing the Randall's and others.
Glenn Johnston What is now the formed Hampden Street had the western end of the Hau Hau tramway and track to the Blue Spur gold diggings along it. (it went to where Stations Inn now is. This was once the tramway terminus site). The tram & track had a few buildings spring up along side it in the later part of the 1860's & early 1870's particularly at the beach end of Hampden Street. At least three pubs and one Aerated Water factory were once in Hampden Street. Besides the Marquis of Lorne hotel there was the George Bowen owned by Stapleton and the Sir Henry Barkly hotel owned by Richard Strangman. The Aerated Water factory was Dooley and Co's.
Christopher Bennett I remember my father telling me his Marquis of Lorne story. This must have happened in the 1930’s when he was a young carpenter’s apprentice. One evening, well after the mandated 6pm closing time, he and a friend were walking past the pub and noise from inside indicated it was business as usual so they thought they would give the patrons a bit of a shakeup. They found a sack and put a couple of bricks in it and then with a 1, 2, 3 heave, tossed it on to the roof and took off, hoping the noise would put the fear of the lord into the drinkers! Unfortunately, the roof was not in that great a condition and the sack went through the iron and continued downward through the plaster ceiling and into the bar. The patrons emptied into the street in search of the culprits. Years later he owned up to an older member of the building trade that it was him. The old fellow said that they would have killed him twice that night – once for upsetting the evening and the second for the layer of plaster dust that had settled on everyone’s beer when they returned to the bar having not caught the culprits.
Shirley Ryan Yes I remember the pub and the seat Marilyn
Marilyn Paterson Shirley Ryan I’m sure I do too, I was up that way a lot.
Therese McAra You would know.
Keith Funnell Therese McAra I wish I knew my this photo was in the McGregor family photos. I bet there are some stories to be told
Glenn Johnston In addition to the three Hampden Street pubs already named there was also the Globe Hotel owned by Patrick McGuire and it was at this hotel in 1868 on the Hau Hau Tramway that there was a meeting urging Council to metal the tramway as far as Sale street and turn it in to a proper street. The Globe Hotel must have been in the Hall St - Brittan St part of Hampden St. One other hotel called the Hampden Street Hotel gets a couple of newspaper mentions, once in a license application by Robert McNee. (I don't know whereabout this hotel was)
Bev Kelly Glenn I love your stories.... you’re a ball of knowledge!!
1
Marilyn Paterson What a fantastic light! I wonder what happened to it?
Glenn Johnston The Hoki museum used to have/has a pub entrance street light. Forget which pub it was from.
Ken Reece My brother and myself would walk past it on our way to kindergarten and would look into the dimly lit bar that carried the distinct and remembered smell of stale beer and old cigarette smoke.....and on our way home the ol fellows would be sitting outside with their beers and would give us a general wack across the backside to hurry us along......the kindergarten was located in the old tennis court pavilion that was located where the Alan Bryant resthome is today
O how time Flys !
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West Coast New Zealand History (1st Sep 2020). Marquis of Lorne Hotel, corner of Hampden and Bealey Streets, Hokitika.ca.1908.. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 10th Apr 2026 21:30, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/28354