By MICK ROBERTS © IN a secluded, heavily timbered valley in the Victorian Highlands, about 20 km north-east of Morwell, once traded a small timber inn, famous for serving-up to its guests mouth-watering roast beef, crisp brown potatoes, and ‘long-uns’… Read More ›
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How a two-storey Landsborough pub was moved over a kilometre by bullock dray
By MICK ROBERTS © THE Landsborough Hotel, located on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland, didn’t always trade from its present address. The pub was established over a kilometre away at the corner of Gympie Street North and Landsborough Maleny Road, and… Read More ›
The publican and the reformed drunkard
MICK ROBERTS © WELL over six feet tall and solidly built, Andrew Lysaght was an imposing and colourful Illawarra publican pioneer. A magistrate, who resigned after a parliamentary inquiry found he called the Wollongong Police Sergeant an “old woman”, he wasn’t… Read More ›