The Mountain View Hotel,
formerly at the top of the Claremont Access. Upper James is the left hand turn, West 5th (or would that have been an unredacted Claremont Drive?) straight ahead. Now
Southam Park.
Brian Henley writes: "The street heading west was Claremont, while the roadway seen at the bottom is the top of Strongman’s Road, turning to the left into what is now Upper James Street."
Originally part of
Hon. Isaac Buchanan's expansive Claremont estate,
which gave the roads their name. The western approach was marked by
Claremont Lodge, the northern edge by Auchmar at
West 5th and Fennell.
Haunted Hamilton suggests that the
Cafe Palazzo building about 1/2km east of Auchmar was also once part of the Clairmont holding.
The building at right is apparently a station of the
Hamilton and Barton Incline Railway, the city's first incline railway.