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            The Lord Nelson is Sydney’s oldest licensed working pub but also an initiator of Sydney’s craft beer scene. Back when the beers available were Fosters and Victoria Bitter (VB), and Coopers was the only independent, the Lord Nelson set up with a brewery and its own beers. These are closer to British beers than hopped-up IPAs and are now distributed to various bottle shops as well.

Back in 1986, the Maritime Services Board of NSW sold the property to former commodities trader Blair Hayden and financial backers Robert Hill-Smith (Yalumba) and accountant Michael Gilbert for a princely $750,500. As far as I’m aware, it has the same owners despite the hotel and its beer brands being put on the market in late 2021 with expectations of $35 million.

There was a tussle with heritage groups but the group managed to repair the white-ant infested roof and, in the late ‘90’s, had a $2.5 million refurbishment and expansion which preserved the hotel’s Old Colonial Regency style while improving its hospitality spaces, including the brewery, public bar and adding an attic floor, air conditioning and guest rooms.

Trading continuously since 1841, the Lord Nelson has convict-quarried sandstone and inside wooden floorboards, thick timber rafters and stone walls. It was retained by the Sydney Harbour Trust when bubonic plague swept Millers Point around 1900.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Millers Point (show map)

Taken on: December 11, 2023

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