The Mount Inn, Mt Moriac, Victoria

The Mount Inn, Moriac, Victoria (formely known as the Moriac Pub)

Moriac is a rural town in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Geelong. It forms part of the Surf Coast Shire. At the 2006 census, Moriac had a population of 594.

The town was surveyed in the 1920s as a village based around the Moriac railway station on the Port Fairy line. The station had been provided to serve the adjacent community of Mount Moriac. The railway through Moriac opened in 1876, followed by the Wensleydale branch line which junctioned with the main line just past Moriac. The branch line opened in 1890 and closed in 1948. A Post Office had opened on 1 August 1854 as Duneed, and was renamed Mount Moriac in 1864 and Moriac in about 1909.

The pub has recently been totally renovated. It is now the best looking pub in the middle of no where.

 

Lorne Hotel, Lorne, Victoria

Lorne Hotel, Victoria

Lorne is a seaside town on Louttit Bay in Victoria, Australia It is situated about the Erskine River and is a popular destination on the Great Ocean Road tourist route.

The pub here is an actual icon, this is the pub referred to in the now famous annual 'Pier to Pub'  ocean swimming race.

The Lorne pub is the hub of the Lorne township, overlooking the Louttit Bay and the famous Lorne Surf Lifesaving Club.

The roof top beer garden has the best views and ambience on the coast.

Grand Pacific Hotel, Lorne, Victoria

Grand Pacific, Lorne, Vic

Lorne is situated on a bay named after Captain Louttit, who sought shelter there in 1841 while supervising the retrieval of cargo from a nearby shipwreck. The coast was surveyed five years later in 1846. The first European settler was William Lindsay, a timber-cutter who began felling the area in 1849. The first telegraph arrived in 1859. Subdivision began in 1869 and in 1871 the town was named after the Marquess of Lorne from Argyleshire in Scotland on the occasion of his marriage to Princess Louise, one of Queen Victoria's daughters.

 Built in 1875 with superb ocean views in one of the most unique settings on the coast, the hotel is opposite surf beaches and the Lorne Pier.

 

Stag Hotel, Learmonth, Victoria

Stag Hotel, Leamonth, Victoria

The Stag Hotel has been closely associated with the early history of Learmonth. It is the second oldest hotel in the Ballarat district, the oldest being Craig's Hotel (originally known as Bath's Hotel). The Stag Hotel was established in 1854, the first licence being granted to a Mr. Mackenzie, and the licence was held by a member of the Mackenzie family continuously for 68 years; surely a record for any hotel in Victoria.

Barwon Hotel, Winchelsea, Australia

Barwon Hotel, Winchlesea

Winchelsea is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is in the Surf Coast Shire local government area and located on the Barwon River 115 km south-west of Melbourne and close to Geelong (37 km north-east).

The Barwon Hotel sits on the banks of the Barwon River, next to the historic bluestone bridge in the centre of Winchelsea. The Barwon Hotel itself is a historic building, being one of the earliest constructions when the town was founded next to the Barwon river crossing.

The town developed around the Barwon Inn (hotel), established in 1842 by Prosper Nicholas Trebeck and Charles Beal. The Post Office opened as Barwon on 1 July 1848 and was renamed Winchelsea in 1854.

Winchelsea Tavern

The 'Winch'

The Winchelsea Hotel has a lot of history. In 1852 the site of the Winchelsea Hotel formed part of one of the earliest subdivisions of this historic township.

The Hotel building appears to have been first constructed in late 1864 for Timothy Hardyman. Until c.1873, the Hotel also operated as a store, with stables being part of the complex until at least 1903.

Mary Considine was owner and occupier of the Hotel in 1913. Her Victorian style building was clad in Oregon block work, remnants of which have been used inside the Hotel in a re-creation of the Considine era façade.

A rear outbuilding which is virtually unchanged since its construction c.1920, currently serves as the Hotel’s Function Room.
In the late 1920’s a large part of the original building was destroyed by fire. However it wasn’t until the 1930’s and 40’s that alterations and additions gave the Hotel subtle Art Deco overtones

Few changes were made to the building until a long and extensive overhaul of the Winchelsea Hotel began in 2005.

Inverleigh Hotel, Victoria

Inverleigh Hotel

Inverleigh is a small rural township in Victoria, Australia located 28 kilometres (17 mi) west from the City of Geelong and 87 kilometres (54 mi) from the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Inverleigh had a population of 562.

Very little has been recorded of the original inhabitants of the area. The few records available are reports of conflict. In the summer of 1837-38 a band of aborigines attacked the lower station of the Clyde Company (near Lullote) with two aborigines being killed and another injured and in 1839 George Russell reported natives sheep duffing.
It has been speculated that the first European to arrive in Inverleigh was William Buckley, but the first European known to have visited Inverleigh was the surveyor J.H. Wedge who arrived in 1835, probably naming the Leigh River after his Tasmanian farm 'Leighlands'.

The hotel was built about 1860, but was never formally named, it has always been known as the 'Inverleigh Hotel'.


Today, the town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Geelong & District Football League.
The town also has a lawn bowling club with one synthetic green.
Golfers play at the course of the Inverleigh Golf Club on Common Road.
The railway station is closed to passengers, being a siding on the line between Melbourne and Adelaide. Inverleigh is 104 kilometres (65 mi) from Melbourne by rail.