building at back of old Wellesley Hotel

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 10:33 am

This is a view looking towards the Wellington Street direction. The single story building on the far left appears to be what looks like the covered walkway on the map.

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 10:42 am

This aerial view from Leodis also shows the walkway, and the Whitehall Power Station:http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 10:45 am

Tasa wrote: This aerial view from Leodis also shows the walkway, and the Whitehall Power Station:http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL I'll use my forum tag ''add on gadget'' here Tasa

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 10:56 am

Thanks Phill - much appreciated! I agree that it's preferable to be able to view photos direct, without clicking.I am registered with Photobucket so I'm just being lazy! Also, the larger maps would widen the column width of the thread too much so I tend to add them as attachments.

jim · Post by **jim** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 11:37 am

This takes a bit of untangling in words.........The roadway to the station went uphill, and the entrance to the station building was effectively at "first floor" level. The view from Whitehall Road thus shows the covered way entrance from the hotel at first floor level, and the hotel services area at ground level. Tasa's "What looks like a large storage area...." was the access to the back sidings, the various cabins and offices at the side of the station....and, immediately on the right, the side entrance to the station concourse, which led through the booking office hall and was thus the entrance used by the majority of people entering the station.People leaving the station would more frequently use the steps directly down to Wellington Street or the "Grand Entrance" in the centre of the main station building, but if you needed to buy a ticket, the left hand side was the way to go. I believe that the covered way from the hotel was ideally situated for guests of the (once) Great Northern Hotel to reach their train if travelling.

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 12:45 pm

jim wrote: This takes a bit of untangling in words.........The roadway to the station went uphill, and the entrance to the station building was effectively at "first floor" level. The view from Whitehall road thus shows the covered way entrance from the hotel at first floor level, and the hotel services area at ground level. Tasa's "What looks like a large storage area...." was the access to the back sidings, the various cabins and offices at the side of the station....and, immediately on the right, the side entrance to the station concourse, which led through the booking office hall and was thus the entrance used by the majority of people entering the station.People leaving the station would more frequently use the steps directly down to Wellington Street or the "Grand Entrance" in the centre of the main station building, but if you needed to buy a ticket, the left hand side was the way to go. I believe that the covered way from the hotel was ideally situated for guests of the (once) Great Northern Hotel to reach their train if travelling. Thanks Jim, you've explained it well! So, the section which is now the electricity sub-station was the beginning of the walkway from the hotel to the station but has been truncated and blocked off. If the walkway was at first floor level (where the two bricked up arches, one with a small modern window in it, can be seen on Google Street View), does that mean that the stone archway on the ground floor was the goods entrance, or perhaps just the staff entrance?

jim · Post by **jim** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 1:02 pm

Hi Tasa. When you want to know about the hotel or electrical side of things, I'm afraid my knowledge is sadly wanting! Perhaps Phill dvsn or chameleon can help.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 2:17 pm

The talk of the now bricked up archway has helped me because on passing it recently I only really saw it for the first time and I wondered what it might have been. I was even going to take a photo at some stage and ask the SL folk.

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 3:03 pm

Leodian wrote: The talk of the now bricked up archway has helped me because on passing it recently I only really saw it for the first time and I wondered what it might have been. I was even going to take a photo at some stage and ask the SL folk. That's one of the things I love about this forum - we can take the most (seemingly) innocuous thing and discover through joint effort what its place in history was, and there's often a very interesting story behind it!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 15 Feb, 2012 3:35 pm

Tasa wrote: Leodian wrote: The talk of the now bricked up archway has helped me because on passing it recently I only really saw it for the first time and I wondered what it might have been. I was even going to take a photo at some stage and ask the SL folk. That's one of the things I love about this forum - we can take the most (seemingly) innocuous thing and discover through joint effort what its place in history was, and there's often a very interesting story behind it! Seconded!