Many towns in Australia are but shadows of what they were in the “good old days,” but surely Woods Point (Vic.) beats, them all. According to official figures compiled in the hey-day of gold-mining, it was an evangelist’s heaven. There… Read More ›
Victoria hotels
Tiny pubs
ONE of Australia’s smallest hotels was said to be at Allendale, near Ballarat in Victoria. The pub measured 8 yards [7.3 metres] by 8 yards and was known as the Allendale Hotel. A signboard outside the one bar, one bedroomed… Read More ›
Gypsy Point Hotel, Mallacoota
Joe the bounder in the pub Strangers think they’ve had one too many, but the pub regulars are no longer jumpy when a kangaroo they call Joe breasts the bar By BILL WELLS Joe’s no lounge lizard, but he is… Read More ›
Darlingford Hotel, Darlingford
THE site of the Darlingford Hotel now sits at the bottom of Lake Eildon, a rock and earth-fill embankment dam across the Goulburn River, between the regional towns of Mansfield and Eildon in Victoria. Darlingford, named after Sir Charles Darling,… Read More ›
Burton Hotel, Manoora
Keeping the constable’s beer cool THE transfer recently of a senior constable, to a northern Victorian town calls to mind an amusing incident that occurred years ago when the senior, before his promotion, was a constable on street duty in… Read More ›
Warrandyte Hotel, Warrandyte
Warrandyte Hotel Burnt Out The Warrandyte Hotel, an old landmark 17 miles from Melbourne, was totally destroyed by fire in the early hours of Monday. The hotel was established about 70 years ago by the late Mr James MCutcheon, and… Read More ›
Grim coincidence
WILLIAM Morrow was employed by the Melbourne Harbour Trust to look after the Dredge Latrobe. The 56-year-old single man lived on board the dredge. One evening in June 1910 he went up into Yarraville to buy some groceries, bought them,… Read More ›
Victoria Hotel, Geelong
Sucked Beer Through Garden Hose MELBOURNE, Tuesday. – The story of the disappearance of a nine-gallon barrel of beer from the Victoria Hotel, Geelong, on May 5, and the subsequent discovery of five men seated round the barrel sucking the… Read More ›
White Horse Hotel, Box Hill
A HISTORIC EFFIGY. When the White Horse Hotel was built at Box Hill (Vic.) in 1851, a wooden facsimile of a white steed was placed on top of the main entrance. The old building is being demolished, but the owner of the premises… Read More ›
Albert Hotel, Bendigo
HOTEL WITH SECRET PASSAGE. Police Make Discovery. BENDIGO, Thursday – Following a police raid on the Albert Hotel, McCrae-street, on the night of 23rd November, the licensee, Muriel Spalding, was charged in the city court today with having permitted persons… Read More ›