By MICK ROBERTS © THE Glenrowan Inn where the bushranger Ned Kelly’s ‘last stand’ took place in 1880 is arguably Australia’s most infamous pub. While the history of bushranger Ned Kelly is well documented, the story of the Glenrowan Inn… Read More ›
Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly’s not on the roll!
The Glenrowan Hotel, Glenrowan, Victoria posted an absolute gem on their Facebook Page in 2019: “Does The Australian Electoral Commission know something we don’t , if you see him wandering about could you inform him that he has mail at… Read More ›
Jones’s Hotel, Glenrowan
Jones’s Hotel, the last refuge of the hunted [Ned Kelly] outlaws, is a public house about a hundred yards from the Glenrowan railway station. It is of the kind common all over the country — wooden walls, shingle roof, a… Read More ›
Jack Clancy once drank with Ned Kelly, and at 100 took his fellow hospital patients on a pub crawl!
IN his final years John Clancy got up to all sorts of mischief – including sneaking out fellow patients of his hospital ward on a pub crawl – at the age of 100! Well, he may have been 100. Contrary… Read More ›
Rocklea Hotel, Rocklea
Rocklea’s skeleton in the closet By MICK ROBERTS© FOR a pub that has served up beer for more than a century, there’s sure to be a few good yarns, and a skeleton or two in the closest, when researching its… Read More ›