Historical information

The Kealba View Hotel, now the Kealba Hotel is a suburban hotel (Pub) located on the intersection of Main Road East and Sunshine Avenue, St. Albans / Kealba.

The hotel serves Kealba, St Albans, Keilor Downs, and the northern edge of Sunshine. It has been operating for several decades and is familiar landmark for locals travelling along Sunshine Avenue.

The hotel has gone through extensive modifications since these photographs were taken.

Significance

These photographs provide an early view of hotel, and they were taken shortly after the opening of the new drive through bottle shop.

The photographs are not the earliest view of the hotel as at stage the hotel was a much simpler building with some detached accommodation rooms. These accommodation rooms have been demolished.

Physical description

Digital scans of black and white negatives

Inscriptions & markings

Hotel Installing New Bottle Shop Kealba Hotel 166.3