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The Gordon Hotel, Portland: One of Victoria’s oldest pub licenses

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The Gordon Hotel, located at 63 Bentinck Street Portland, was established in 1842 as the Commercial Inn and was renamed the Gordon Hoitel in 1890. The hotel was rebuilt in stages between the 1870s and 1928, when works included the… Read More ›

Fire destroyed Albion Park’s Commercial Hotel

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ESTABLISHED in 1880, the Albion Park Hotel, located in the Illawarra region of NSW, was originally built by English pioneer, Gabriel Timbs. Timbs was a native of Berkshire, England. He was born in 1824, and came to the colony of… Read More ›

NSW/Qld border divided Hungerford pub’s bar

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By MICK ROBERTS © LEGEND has it that a there was once a pub that sat ‘slap-bang’ on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. As a consequence the outback pub, located at Hungerford, had its bar half in… Read More ›