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Raise a Glass to Moruya’s Pubs!

EXHIBITION: MORUYA MUSEUM

85 Campbell St Moruya
10am-12 noon, Wed Fri & 1st Sat

    Pubs have always played a central role in Moruya life — and it wasn’t just about the beer!

    This exhibition celebrates the town’s four surviving pubs — and remembers the many others that have come and gone across the district, some still standing as echoes of another eras. Discover how these buildings have evolved through renovations, floods and fires, and the stories they continue to tell.

    Pubs offered a welcome escape from the daily grind: places where councillors, agricultural societies and sporting groups could meet, and venues alive with music, balls and dinners. Travelling salesmen, doctors and dentists also plied their trade from these bustling hubs. Of course, pubs provided much-needed rest stops for weary travellers, offering meals, accommodation, paddocks and stables.

    Adelaide Hotel 1922 – char-a-blanc (early motor coach) parked outside
    Criterion Hotel – where the Waterfront Hotel now stands
    Air Raid Tavern as it was in 1970
    Vulcan Street looking north, with Mr McKeon’s Commercial Hotel on the site of the current Monarch Hotel

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    One response to “Raise a Glass to Moruya’s Pubs!”

    1. Kathie Comb Avatar
      Kathie Comb

      Date

      About 1845

      Location

      Mullenderree, New South Wales, Australia

      Description

      James Lynch owned a pub called The Ark at Mullenderree situated on the water’s edge on the opposite side of the road to The Criterion Hotel. Source Moruya

      Examiner 31 July 1920.

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