LAST OF MELBOURNE ‘S OLDEST HOTEL 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. – Weekly Times… Read More ›
Lucky find in hotel. During the demolition of the old Royal Hotel, Guyra, one of the workmen, in dismantling a window-sash in the bath room, found three half-sovereigns, the oldest dated 1883. Some traveller, possibly, had placed the coins on the window sill… Read More ›
This old landmark, the Farmers’ Home Hotel, just out of Lismore on the Casino Road, is at last being demolished. If walls could speak, what tales these pictured here might tell! –Northern Star (Lismore, NSW ) Friday 10 April 1936
