YOU PASSED THIS PUB BY. I’ll bet London to a brick that if you live in Melbourne, Sydney or Canberra or points between, you’ve seen it.
And that you haven’t stopped. You’re on a Yamaha Super Tenere 2013 (which didn’t have a single issue on this ride) heading south down the Hume Hwy and ten minutes or so after crossing the Murrumbidgee at Gundagai, there’s an old single storey brick pub on the left and it looked interesting last time with the old Cobb & Co coach out the front. You promised then that you’d call in next time. But again, you miss the turn and keep going.
There’s another exit just a few hundred metres further on.
Yep, you know it don’t ya? It’s that pub?
Spread across the gables at either end of the façade is the title … “Adelong Crossing …. Hotel” but for most of the last hundred years it’s been known as the “Tumblong Tavern.”
It used to be just south of where it is now. Back then it was known as the Coach and Horses but in 1905, Waldo Sibthorpe who had the lease for the place, got the quiet word from the cops that, “the renewal of license would be opposed on the grounds that the building
