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Old 22-03-2012, 11:03 AM   #1
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Default Burketown Pub goes up in smoke

Those of you who've been fishing up in the gulf may have enjoyed a beer or a fight in the Burketown Pub. Well you'd be hard pressed to get either now ... she's gone.

This pic was taken at 4.30 am this morning .....



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Old 22-03-2012, 11:05 AM   #2
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OH! ****.......I've had a lot of good drinks and yarns in that pub.......hope they rebuild it.....and soon!
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Old 22-03-2012, 11:45 AM   #3
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Default Re: Burketown Pub goes up in smoke

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Those of you who've been fishing up in the gulf may have enjoyed a beer or a fight in the Burketown Pub. Well you'd be hard pressed to get either now ... she's gone.

This pic was taken at 4.30 am this morning .....

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Wow...

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Old 22-03-2012, 12:15 PM   #4
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Default Re: Burketown Pub goes up in smoke

What a shame, we were there only 12 months ago. Bit of an eye opener
But the beer was goooood
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Old 22-03-2012, 01:40 PM   #5
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very interesting how pubs are so susceptible to total loss by fire

every town ive ever lived in had a pub burn down.........
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Old 22-03-2012, 03:23 PM   #6
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very interesting how pubs are so susceptible to total loss by fire. every town ive ever lived in had a pub burn down.........

Yeah, that reminds me of a funny story.
I moved from Sydney to Mullumbimby in the 70's. There were two pubs ... the "Middle Pub" and the "Bottom Pub". After I'd lived there for some time, I asked a local how come there's a middle and a bottom when there's only two pubs? He looked at me like I'm not to bright and drawls ... "Yeah well there was a "Top Pub" but it burned down" "Must have been recent" I said. "Yeah" he says, "1934 she went up"!

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Old 22-03-2012, 03:55 PM   #7
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Default Re: Burketown Pub goes up in smoke

Reminds me of the day in 1999 that the Commercial hotel in sth morang burnt down.
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Old 23-03-2012, 04:00 PM   #8
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Bit more on it

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/q...-1226307457962
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Old 23-03-2012, 07:02 PM   #9
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Reminds me of the day in 1999 that the Commercial hotel in sth morang burnt down.
Or how the Glenburn pub went up in the Black Saturday fires yet there was nothing touched by fire for miles around it....hmmm..
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