BLACK RHINO TAKES CRAIG’S ROYAL HOTEL

Ballarat’s biggest-ever sale has transacted, seeing the long-serving Finnings family pass the baton of Craig’s Royal Hotel to the growing Black Rhino Group. The heritage-listed pub was built 1853, as the Ballarat Hotel, celebrating the first licensed premise in town.

FINNINGS OFFER UP CRAIG’S ROYAL HOTEL

The very regal Craig’s Royal Hotel at Ballarat is on the market for the first time in two decades. Built 1853, the heritage-listed three-storey Georgian-style Hotel was the city’s first licensed premise, known as the Ballarat Hotel. The following year