BACK                                                                                             In latter years before the building's demolition, the upper floor had been mostly utilised by the Commonwealth Electoral Office for the seat of Darling In 1951,the bank of Australasia and the Union Bank amalgamated, becoming the Australian and New Zealand Bank (ANZ).                                          This meant the former Bank of Australasia became ANZ.                           Then in 1970,the ANZ and English, Scottish and Australian Banks amalgamated to form the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group,for three years, the city had two branches of ANZ opposite each other in Argent Street.                       The ESA bank (where ANZ now operates ,had been extensively modernised not long before the 1970 merger with ANZ, and it was decided that all ANZ business be concentrated at the former ESA premises.                                        So it had been the sum of the moves between the Unions, Australasian and ESA Banks that paved the way for the Commonwealth Bank to acquire the former Australasian site.                                                              The building where the Saving Bank of NSW had operated at the eastern corner of Argent and Oxide Streets had once been a large drapery store built by Mrs  W.C. Davies in 1901. However, that had not been the original construction on the site, which had, in turn,been previously occupied by J.R.Saunders, Barnett Harris and then Davies & Jones. In later days ,the W .C. Davies building (beside having been a bank) was a grocery business operated by Richards & Fiddaman,  a clothing store operated by Press Bros,  a TAB agency and today, is Alfresco Cafe.                                    The Bank of Ausralasia had been established in Silverton in a "handsome two storied brick and stone building" since December 16,1885.                        The building costs 1,500 pounds, and was sold in 1904 to  Mr  W. C. Davies for 50 pounds.                                                                         The local branch at first had temporary premises next to the BHP office ,but, by a year after the bank first opened its doors here the Silver Age reported on May 21,1887,that a new building at a cost of 2,000 pounds had been begun for the bank, and "the buildings are to be of brick & stone, the first of the kind in the township".                                                      The site in Argent Street is now occupied by Livesley's Frock Shop,and the strongroom can be seen just inside the front door of the shop. "Currently ,the premises are occupied by the clothing firm of Nickas.                             .                                                                        _ SILVER KING HOTEL--The Silver King Hotel was built by Bullock and Vaughan on the track to Mount Gipps and was opened on October 9, 1885, with Mathew Vaughan as Licensee. The original wood and iron building was replaced by a stone and brick building on the corner of Argent and Delamore Streets. The Silver King Hotel has traded continuously from 1885 until its closure in 1993. THE BONANZA HOTEL--The building for the Bonanza Hotel, which was of wood and iron with six rooms, was brought from Lake's Camp, near the Day-Dream mine, by A.F . Pincombe and erected for William Delamore on land purchased from Hugh Mullins for ten pounds on what became the corner of Delamore Street and Argent Lane.                                                                            William Delamore had been a prospector in the district for several years and obtained the transfer of the Hotel license on July 3, 1885. The hotel opened with a "Grand Ball" on July 31, 1885.                                           The building was destroyed by fire on February 6, 1894 and William Delamore then went to South Australia. He died at Jamestown on February 18,1913, aged 66 years.                                                           CABLE HOTEL The Cable Hotel was built of stone and brick with corrugated iron roof and was opened on 22nd of  January, 1892 on the Southern corner of Oxide and Brown Streets. In 1901 Alice Goldie  was evicted for failure to effect repairs to the hotel.  She claimed that the repairs had been carried out but were blown away in a duststorm.  The Cable was  delicenced  in December 1907 but was reopened as the result of an appeal. An attack on the “Turks” who attacked the picnic train in January 1915 was mounted from here. The hotel was owned by the South Australian Brewing Co when it was delicenced  in 1924.  It was used as a residence by Max Stewart’s parents and grand-parents for some years, and in 1937 it became a private hospital. The building was condemned and demolished by City Council in 1973,and a residence now occupies the site.                                                                       END