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THE QUINNY RAZED BUT OWNER NOT DETERRED

Posted on July 17th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Popular landmark the Quinninup Tavern went up in flames early Saturday morning, but it is not all over for the little pub that could. The Quinninup Tavern, known as The Quinny, was built in 1950 in the emerging logging town

ANZAC DAY: AUSSIE AS A DAY AT THE PUB

Posted on April 12th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Anzac Day – our national day of remembrance – is nigh. And as always, pubs are gearing up to honour on 25 April, their association with the mateship that embodies the fallen Anzacs. There are few locations more connected with

FOOTSCRAY HOTEL: DEVOUT LOCAL IN MELBOURNE’S HEART

Posted on March 3rd, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Old-time publican Brian Kramer runs the kind of old-school pub that made pubs a staple of the Australian community. Amid soaring development and relentless gentrification, the Footscray Hotel occupies a prime block on bustling Hopkins Street, just a few blocks

LITTLE TOWN THAT COULD OPENING WORLD-FIRST PUB

Posted on December 7th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Two and half years after the town of Buchan lost its only pub, the new and world’s first crowd-funded Caves Hotel will be reborn tomorrow. A fire razed the landmark local pub on the night of 8 April, 2014. The

TOWN-SAVED PUB HONOURED AS PUB SAVES TOWN

Posted on October 21st, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
12 local families that banded together to buy the pub and save their town have seen their work pay off as the Border Inn Hotel scoops the Wimmera Business Awards. Apsley is a tiny town of about three hundred souls,

BLACK HATT PUBLICAN SAVES FLOUNDERING LOCAL POOL

Posted on March 2nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
The owner of Geelong’s Black Hatt pub has rescued the local swimming pool, kick-starting plans to launch up to 50 community swimming pools to teach kids to swim. Kylee Clasper already had ideas of opening a local swim school, and