Wreckers demolishing the Apollo Inn, at the corner of Russell street and Flinders lane — Melbourne’s most ancient hostelry. It was here that [John] Batman, the founder of Melbourne, used to take his glass.
– Melbourne Weekly Times, January 29, 1927
More pictures and the history of the Apollo Inn, at The Time Gents’ story: Melbourne’s Apollo Inn traded for over eight decades
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