Last drinks? Plan to demolish gold-rush pub the Great Western Hotel for apartment tower

By Aisha Dow
Updated January 26 2017 - 12:08am, first published January 25 2017 - 9:59am
The Great Western Hotel publican Glenn Day.  Photo: Penny Stephens
The Great Western Hotel publican Glenn Day. Photo: Penny Stephens
The facade of the Great Western Hotel todays ...  Photo: Penny Stephens
The facade of the Great Western Hotel todays ... Photo: Penny Stephens
 ... and in 1972  Photo: State Library of Victoria
... and in 1972 Photo: State Library of Victoria

One of Melbourne's last surviving "old-school" pubs, the Great Western Hotel, is a retro watering hole on King Street that has remained unchanged for decades.

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