Railway Hotel

John Collyer established the “Railway Hotel” on this site c 1878.
The name was changed to Collyer’s Hotel and later became known as the Cricketer’s Arms Hotel. The hotel was on the south-east corner of Hazelwood Road and Commercial Road
The “Cricketers” was de-licensed in December 1930. The building was demolished in 1932.

This hotel has had a number of Licensees – Murdoch; Nurse; O’Flarherty; Breed; Donovan; Millett; Smythe; and Donald McKay who closed the hotel in December 1930.
Les Hare demolished the building in 1932 and built two shops on the site in 1935.

The top facia board above the veranda still has HARES BUILDING 1935 visibly inscribed.

On the corner, No 142 became a grain & corn store for Rogers & Brereton.
In 1942 Les Hare’s daughter, Edna and son-in-law, Lindsay Campbell opened ‘Campbell’s Victory café’ on the site. Since then, many others have occupied the café until it was closed in 1995.
Tonelly Computer Games occupied the shop until 2010.

No 144 became a butchers shop for Bert Coulston. Other butchers to occupy the shop were James Gardiner, G Baillie and JH Dunlop & Son which closed in 1967.

Norm Morrison then had a chainsaw shop on the site in the 1970s and later ‘Genesis Motorcycles’ occupied the shop in the 1990s.

Panthers Menswear opened in 2010 after moving from Tarwin Street. In 2011 Panthers extended to include No 142 after the closure of Tonelly Computer Games and they then closed in 2018.

Currently occupied by ‘Windermere Community Services’.