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Ok there is some miss information going on with the Shaftesbury Hotel. Firstly the Shaftesbury was at the start of Stirling St straight across from the Sunday times on the same side as the Loaded Dog wine bar. In-between the Shaftesbury and the Loaded Dog was Canterbury Court mall that ran from Stirling St up to Beaufort St. We had the Shaftesbury from 1968 to 1978 where the last few years was shared ownership with a lady called Merry cant remember her last name. I believe the place suzyvan talking about was the dance hall around the corner because the Shaftesbury was called the Shaftesbury the hole time we where there right up till its death. I remember all that mall being closed. I remember being able to go from the hotel thru the empty shops and into the 9 story car park above the dance hall. There we would throw cans of coke down onto the pavement and If you spun it just right it would burst open at the top and spray in a large circle. The dance halls Known as the Shaftesbury Theatre from 1912, the entertainment between 1918 and 1936 was almost exclusively vaudeville. The venue’s name changed several times before it was demolished in the 1950s. These included the Luxor (1925), Luxor Picture Theatre (1936), and Tivoli (1940s). It also briefly served as a dance hall (Canterbury Court). Out of that one of the dance hall remained thru the 60s and early 70s.
The Shaftesbury use to have a third story and a balcony at one stage because of the old pictures in the bar and the fact the old lift had a third floor button but no third floor to go too. Apparently  the original roof rotted away to the point of not being able to fix, so they just took off the top floor.