Monissa<p>Launceston, intersection of Paterson &amp; Charles Streets.</p><p>The building on the right (Atcherley &amp; Dawson, tea merchants) is now the site of the blood bank. In earlier days, the Royal Mail Hotel was there. </p><p>To the left is the National Hotel hotel, now a car park.</p><p>Behind the photographer, to the right, is now the old National Theatre Building but at this time was probably still the former Plough Inn building. </p><p>And to the left, a shop but in the 1850s it was the Gold Digger's Return hotel. </p><p>That's a hotel on every corner. There was also the White Horse two doors down from the National, the Star (now Star Bar) up to the left and the Royal Tasman back down Paterson St (now a car park) .</p><p>Postcard, c.1910 caption "Patterson Street, Launceston", no publisher details</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/launceston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>launceston</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/olddays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>olddays</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/notlikethatnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notlikethatnow</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/postcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postcards</span></a></p>