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The Creekside Hotel, Warracknabeal, Victoria - Closure After 154 Years - 31 December 2024The Creekside Hotel in the Victorian town of Warracknabeal, 330 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, announced it is closing as of 1 January 2025. The owners of the pub, which has been serving patrons since its inception as the Commercial Hotel... more |
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Tea Gardens Hotel, Bondi Junction - Record $70+ Million Sale - 23 August 2024Pub veteran John Ryan splashed out more than $70 million for the Tea Gardens pub in Sydney's east in what is the largest deal this year in the booming hotel sector. John Purkis and family passed the reins of the landmark Tea Gardens Hotel in... more |
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Many Peaks hotel reopens - 28 February 2025The historic Grand Hotel in Many Peaks, Central Queensland, has reopened after five years, thanks to new owners Desley and Craig O'Grady and strong community support. The pub, a cornerstone of the tiny town since the early 1900s, closed abruptly... more |
Archer Hotel Rockhampton - Lost to fire - 1 January 2018The Archer Hotel, formerly known as the Balmoral Hotel, caught fire, burning the abandoned pub to the ground. more |
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Tragedy Strikes Travellers Rest Hotel Thorpdale - 10 April 2017Tragedy struck the Travellers Rest Hotel in Thorpdale, Victoria on 4th April 2017 when it went up in flames in the middle of the night and took the life of the local publican John Bantock. The pub had been owned by members of the same family... more |
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A walk down memory lane in Halifax, QLD - 16 February 2017G'day, On a recent trip to North Queensland I made a small detour and visited Halifax. My father's family immigrated to Halifax years before WW2; my grandfather cut sugar cane (by hand), my father started in the QLD railway at the Bemerside... more |
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The Victoria Hotel Melbourne - Check out the latest update - 31 January 2017For all our avid pub followers and history aficianados, the Ibis Styles Melbourne - The Victoria Hotel have generously offered new historical photos and information to add to our directory. Check out the listing! www.gdaypubs.com.au/VIC/melbourne/city/66039/victoria-hotel.html more |
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Pentland Hotel Motel Queensland - Updated - 30 January 2017Thanks to Lorrae from the Pentland Hotel Motel in Queensland for providing info & photos to update the site. more |
Pub history abounds with readers - what's your query? - 10 January 2017In the last year, we've had lots of enquiries, not all of them made public, by readers who are interested in the history of a pub that their ancestors had some involvement in. This is a tricky research question, but one that we enjoy getting... more |
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Robyn Atherton - Pubs, Publicans & People - 16 July 2016Robyn Atherton has released her second edition of Pubs, Publicans & People - A Catalogue of Hotels in the History of Harden Shire. www.gdaypubs.com.au/publications.html The aim of the publication was to record the fact that many hotels... more |
Former Royal Hotel, Mossman - 29 February 2016Update from Christopher Dempsey The Royal Hotel Mossman QLD was destroyed by fire 30/9/2011 picture is from Newsport.com.Chris from Queensland www.newsport.com.au/Royal-destroyed-in-blaze-NEWSPORT.6505.0.htm... Thanks Chris we weren't... more |
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Marsden Tavern Yeppoon - 19 February 2016Cheers to Reilly Marsden for adding the MarsdenTavern Marsden Tavern Yeppoon A popular local destination! more |
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