Colour photograph: Beck's Crown Hotel, Hargreaves Street, Bendigo. Image shows two storey hotel, white painted, brown writing 'Beck's Crown Hotel' on top storey façade. Simple pediment on top of hotel. Cars parked at parking meters in Hargreaves Street. Cantilever verandah in front of hotel. VACC Insurance Col Ltd., and Beck Sheahan & Co. names on verandah. Extreme RH side, Robbs. Large crane in LH background, behind Shamrock Hotel. Construction of multi-storey carpark visible on LH side, fronting Hargreaves Street. Early 1980's ?.bendigo, hotel, beck's crown hotel

314 page soft cover book entitled 'Around the Bend I Go' by Max C.S. Beck. The true story of a boy surviving childhood in a Bendigo city hotel in the 1950s and 1960s. The Crown Hotel in Hargreaves St. Illustrated with B&W photos. Published by Max CS Beck, 2022 Max C S Beckbiography, beck, the crown hotel