Court House Hotel, Talbot..Victoria
Talbot is small historic town situated in central Victoria between Ballarat and Maryborough. Gold was discovered around Talbot around 1855 surging the population to 15,000 overnight. Many hotels sprung up in the town including the Court House Hotel built in 1861 being the only one still operating today.
Many of the buildings still existing in the town were built during the
1860s and 1870s. During the late 1880s the mines began to close and the
population slowly started to drift away. The return of soldiers from the
First World War
saw an acceleration of this drift. With no established industries left,
the town today is only a shadow of the town born during those early
days of 1860. However, Talbot still has an interesting story to tell to
any visitors.
Elaine is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Midland Highway between Ballarat and Geelong. At the 2006 census, Elaine and the surrounding area had a population of 677.
The railway came to the town with the opening of the Geelong-Ballarat line in 1862, with the local railway station opened soon after, but today only grain and freight trains use the line. The hotel is situated opposite the now disused railway station.
Miners Rest is a small community on the outskirts of Ballarat, Victoria.
The Wye Beach Hotel
The Wye Beach Hotel is famously located in Wye River, on the Great Ocean
Road. Its prime position affords you a completely uninhibited ocean
view, and a truly captivating and memorable experience. The safe, family
environment makes it the perfect place to relax and unwind, or maybe
even spot a whale! Best pub view in Australia?
Wye River is a small town in Victoria, Australia.
It is also the name given to the waterway which flows through the town
and into the sea at this point. Situated some 155 km west of Melbourne, on the Otway Coast part of the scenic Great Ocean Road, the Wye River township is a popular tourist destination about 15 km west of the resort town of Lorne, Victoria. It became a popular place for Melbournians to holiday after the Great Ocean Road was officially opened in 1932. The postcode of Wye River is 3234. At the 2006 census, Wye River had a permanent population of 144 although its holiday population is ten times that number.
The Terminus, Forrest.
Forrest, Victoria is a small rural township located in the Otway Ranges. At the 2006 census, Forrest and the surrounding area had a population of 170.
The Terminus Hotel, was originally a wooden structure that boasted some 9
boarding rooms, until it burned to the ground in 1996 and resulted in
the tragic loss of the then publicans son in the fire. This new
building was constructed not long after and remains today.
The Royal Mail
Birregurra is a town in Victoria, Australia approximately 130 km south-west of Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Birregurra had a population of 688.
A Post Office opened in the area on 1 October 1858 and was renamed
Mount Gellibrand in 1894, a few days before another office nearby was
opened as Birregurra.
The Royal Mail Hotel is the centre piece of the
small but thriving town of Birregurra
The hotel has been operating since 1871 and is the only hotel in
town.
Birregurra is at the foot of the Otway Ranges, 30mins from Lorne on
the Great Ocean Road and 60 minutes from Apollo Bay
Queenscliff is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia, south of Swan Bay at the entrance to Port Phillip.
The Royal Hotel in Queenscliff was built in 1854 by Irish immigrant
William Leihy a Borough Councillor who bought the land in an area that
was then out of town in the hope that the town would grow and surround
him. He also owned a hotel in Geelong.
The hotel was the first of a group of grand hotels built in the mid
to late 1800s to cater for tourists who travelled down from Melbourne on
large steamers. The trip taking about two hours. The hotel originally
featured 54 rooms.
The Royal is a truely majestic hotel whose decorative wrought iron
work, colonades and tower make it a landmark building that is visible
to all ships that enter Port Phillip Bay though the trecherous Rip.
