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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Imperial Hotel was a Melbourne Ales pub kept by my grandfather in the mid 1940s. The Dudley Hill rugby league club was based at The Imperial in the 1950s where players changed when playing home games. It was demolished and replaced by the De Lacey Hotel.

Source: Kevin Firth, Adelaide

One of my fathers anecdotes, who was born in Bradford in 1938. "Playing rugby ensured I got a nice shower after training or playing. I actually installed the immersion heater at Dudley Hill headquarters, which was the Imperial Hotel on Tong Street, long since demolished"

Lisa Napier (April 2022)

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