Esplanade Hotel, Brighton: From pub to guesthouse, and back to pub

The Grosvenor Residential Hotel to the left of the memorial arch from a windy Brighton Jetty, C1920. Picture: State Library of South Australia
Brighton Hotel Brighton SA 1926
The Brighton Hotel, Brighton, South Australia, 1927. Picture: State Library of South Australia
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The Esplanade Hotel, Brighton, South Australia. Picture: www.scenicadelaide.com

SITTING at the foot of Brighton’s famous jetty, the Esplanade Hotel was originally a grand two storey building with a curved front, a dome and iron lace decorated balconies.

Originally built as a hotel in the coastal suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, the building became a guest house during the 1940s after it was delicensed. A tiled section at the front was a ‘Residential Cafe’, with the remainder of the building available for tourist accommodation, before it once again became a pub in the 1950s.

In 1958 the building became the Esplanade Hotel, and it continues to trade under that name (although commonly known locally as the ‘Espy’), much altered, to this day.


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