When we look down Port Melbourne’s Bay Street today we see it lined with upmarket boutiques, restaurants, cafés and shops. Dotted along either side are also several pubs and hotels from the ‘gastropub’ Pier Hotel to the sports bar style of The Rex and Bay and Bridge. It is almost difficult to think that this street was once the domain of rough dockworkers and seafarers and a pocket of Melbourne’s seedier element. This tour looks at eight of the pubs still operating since their establishment in the mid-1800s, each one containing stories of hardship, murder, crime and, by contrast, community.
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