This documentary film, based on G. Hawley Stancombe’s Highway in Van Diemen’s Land, tours many of the major pubs throughout the Tasmanian Midlands. It was filmed in the 1970s. Even then, many of the old pubs had already been converted to other uses.

Enjoy a memory lane road trip through the heart of Tasmania!

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Tas That Was is a column that includes:

  • anecdotes of life in Tasmania in the past;
  • historical photographs of locations in Tasmania; and/or
  • documentaries about locations in Tasmania.

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