Cardrona Hotel
Gold-rush pub behind a Baltic pine false front, with a mineshaft visible through its floor.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Cardrona Hotel, in the valley between Queenstown and Wanaka, is about the building itself rather than the drinks inside it. It looks at the pine weatherboard front raised in the gold-rush eighteen-sixties, what that front was actually standing in for, and the long-serving publican whose death in nineteen sixty-one left the place empty. Best heard on the road outside, facing the doors.
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