A ghost story helped the Mt Kembla Village Hotel make the cut for a book about the historic pubs of NSW.
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Legend has it, the cellar of the pub is haunted by the ghost of Michael Brennan – his was the only body not recovered after the 1902 Mt Kembla mining disaster.
Licencee Daine Blackburn said he’s yet to experience the ghost first-hand.
“But there have been other people who have run the hotel before who have seen him or witnessed things that they’ve put down to Mickey Brennan,” he said.
A “talking point” like a ghost was part of the reason the hotel appeared in the new book Historic Pubs NSW.
Co-writer and photographer Simon Punch said a lot work went into finding the 25 pubs that feature in the book.
“We did a few big road trips and literally went to every pub,” Mr Punch said.
“Overall we probably would have gone to a couple of hundred. I went to at least 100 myself.”
As well as the ghost and the history he said the Mt Kembla venue was “a nice timber-clad hotel”.