Contents: Robert Bain's Border Inn, Berwick p6. Filigree iron at Sale p8. Coaching Inn: Rhoden's Halfway House p10. Port Albert, first hotel in Gippsland p12. River pubs at Maffra and Wy Yung p14. Little River Inn, Ensay p16. Foundations of gold, Beechworth p18. The Plough at Tarrawingee p20. Black Swan on the Broken River, Benalla p22. The Golden Age and the Happy Valley p24. History along the Hume Highway - Seymour and Euroa p26. The Border Inn at Bacchus Marsh p28. Flags over Kyneton p30. Castlemaine p32. Golden road to Bendigo p34. River port, Echuca p36. The Macedonia, white elephant of Lancefield p38. Hotels and pubs in the golden city p40. The Bull and Mouth, Maryborough p42. St Arnaud Colonial p44. Charlton, in the vale of Avoca p46. Into the Wimmera: Donald and Warracknabeal p48. Dimboola, Nhill and Horsham p50. Old inns near Geelong p52. Flow of time: Portland p54. Port Fairy: Old Belfast p56. On the Major's line: Digby, Casterton and Harrow p58. Hamilton, on the Grange Burn p60. Down the bay: Sorrento and Queenscliff p62. Acknowledgements p64.