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Built/licensed: 1888.

Location: 613 Canterbury Road, Surrey Hills.

Delicensed: 1920 after Local Option Poll.

Status of building: Commercial Office use.

Heritage Reviews / Conservation studies: City of Boroondara - Thematic Environmental History (March 2012) pp. 107, 109

City of Boroondara - Camberwell Conservation Study (1991) Volume 2, pp. 71, 109

MMBW Maps: Detail plan 2225, 1909; Detail plan 2241, 1909; Detail plan 2226, 1925.

Comments: Built by Alexander McNeill on the North-Eastern corner of Canterbury and Union Roads, Surrey Hills. Licensed from 28/11/1888. 

"His Honour said that in the case of A. McNeill, who applied tor a conditional license for an hotel at Surrey hills, the evidence had been considered, and the same difficulty arose as in other cases, inasmuch as, while the private residents were strongly against it, the townspeople and business people wished to see the hotel built. The balance of the evidence was in favour of those who thought the hotel necessary. The application was granted. In that, as in other cases, it had been suggested that large hotels apparently meant for lodgings were merely erected to acquire a right to sell drink. In some cases there were grounds for suspecting that such was the case. The Court, however, was determined to see that all houses licensed should be not only properly built but furnished as proper dwelling houses, and if they were not kept so the licenses would not be renewed."

From The Argus, March 2, 1888:

Union Road c. 1906, Surrey Family Hotel on far right.	Surrey Lodge (former Surrey Family Hotel) c.1982

Closed by the Local Option Poll in 1920. The building was remodelled and renovated in 1939, and made into shops and a guest house known as Surrey Lodge. 

Licensees:

1888-95 - Alexander McNeill

1906 - Florence Eliza McNeill

1907 - Michael Farrell

Bridget M. Farrell

1911 - Patrick F. Salavan

1913-18 - Bridget Mary Farrell

1919 - Thomas Farrell