The Midland Hotel of Castlemaine

20/10/2025

23/08/2024

One week to go till Fathers Day.
The Sale is on with heavy, heavy discounts..
Don't leave it till Panic Hour.
Open from 5pm Friday.

12/08/2024

Save this date. If you were connected to the Bohemian Brunswick Street from the 70s onward. It will be your chance to buy this glorious book by Anne Margaret Rittman and be part of this tribal experience.
All we ask is that come as yourself.

05/08/2024

Ann has lost her shop mojo and doesn't know where to find it.
And so, her fine men's apparel and gift shop, "Maurocco for Men", will be emptied. (We don't know what to do with the room and so suggestions are welcome)

The CLOSING DOWN SALE starts this weekend going from Friday 10th August until Fathers Day, the 1st of September. But only while the Maurocco Bar is open. The best will go first.

Anything left over will be offered to the Gods in a funeral pyre because we love being dramatic.

https://www.midlandhotel.com.au

10/05/2024

And once you know the code you can read it in other places You will notice date palms around old RSL halls, shrines, cenotaphs, memorial parks and the odd cannon. They are each a physical emoji from 1918.

The two fully grown palm trees outside The Midland came from "some old house around Castlemaine" which was being demolished or altered. So I expect that they were two such memorials.

https://www.midlandhotel.com.au

09/05/2024

The council placed this outside the hotel not that long ago for which we are thankful.
But do you know the connection of date palms with Australian history and Anzac? I have had it on good authority that during the first world war families would plant a date palm at their house to show their lose and in memory of a son, father or husband killed in the Middle East, which Included Anzac Cove.
And that is why when you drive around the country you will frequently see old farm houses with one, two or, God forbid, three palm trees out the front. Sad.

https://www.midlandhotel.com.au

06/05/2024

Where to store your pumpkins for the winter?
Of course!
At the front desk of the Midland Hotel's Art Deco foyer. . . .

https://www.midlandhotel.com.au

03/10/2023

Bluesy Doozy !!

www.mauroccobar.com.au

29/08/2023

Can you dance to the Blues? Let's find out.

04/07/2023

It is on this Saturday and the dance floor will be exposed.
Entry $10 at the door.