Longest bar in Australia

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Captains Flat Hotel

As with any such statistic, there are a number of claims for the title "the longest bar in Australia":

  • Captains Flat, New South Wales: When the new Captains Flat Hotel was built in 1937,[1] it was said to have the longest bar in Australia at the time; it was Script error: No such module "convert". long.[2]
  • Mildura, Victoria: The Mildura Working Man's Sports & Social Club built a T-shaped bar in 1938. It was believed to be the longest bar in Victoria. In 1970 it was rebuilt with a hook and was noted in the Guinness Book of Records as holding world record length status. The bar was Script error: No such module "convert". long around "the centre line of the service surface" and had 32 beer taps. The bar was removed in 1995 during renovations to add poker machines.[3]
  • Big Bell, Western Australia: the hotel of an abandoned township in the Murchison region in Western Australia.[4]
  • Wiluna, Western Australia: The old Weeloona Hotel (demolished in the mid-1970s) was reputed to have the world's longest bar.[5]
  • Melbourne, Victoria: The bar at The Trust in Flinders Lane is said to be over Script error: No such module "convert". long.[6]

See also

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