Alternative NamePomona Produce StorePart of former Railway HotelVibeDescription
This shop is one of three premises fronting Factory Street on adjoining lots, constructed out of the demolished Railway Hotel which functioned in Pomona from 1911 to 1965. By the mid-1960s, Pomona’s population was declining and there was insufficient business for two hotels in the town. Mr and Mrs Braidotti surrendered the licence for the Railway Hotel and had it partly demolished.
Some of the timber went to Tewantin to build two flats, some was stored in a local sawmill yard and the remainder of the downstairs portion of the hotel was made first into three small flats, and later into the three shops at 9 and 9A Factory Street currently.
The former Railway Hotel was built by H Bushnell in 1911. Errol and Myra Osborne were licensees of the hotel when they constructed the timber hall that is now the Majestic Theatre in 1921. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Railway Hotel catered especially for commercial travellers, who arrived at Pomona at the Pomona Railway Station opposite the hotel. In 1962, Gus and Mary Braidotti purchased the Railway Hotel. They already owned the Pomona Hotel, on the western side of the railway line. Address9A, Factory Street, Pomona
